The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY,.MARCH 11, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 60, 11 March 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 11, 1874.

QtfTYPABD Suez Mail. — The next maii^will be despatched by the Alhambia, now due at Hokitika. PiiOFESSOB Bay an. — This gentleman, who announces himself as the ''Pnnde'df'Wiizordfl," will give enterlainm^nisjai the Odd-Fellows' Hall on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. - .-. Stab "Mammoth Troupe. — This trou^^r' musicians, gymnasts, &c,, are" le&pectea* to arrive here by the Omei|\o> Friday,,' on the evening of which day they will give a performance ip the ©ad-Fellows' Hall; They have metfw'itin' considerable success in other parts of the^plqny,and are now on their waj ' s>\&jjpaey. Mb Calcutt, who has recently been , on a trip to the Buller Valley, returned _to_towa thia morning, he object of

his visit was to ascertain the value of the land proposed to be set aside for. special settlements, as negotiations are prpceedin^; with the General Government fbf^ah advance of £20,000 for the completion of the Buller Road on the security of &uch lands; The Nelson Literary Institute, says the Wellington Independent, scarcely seems to be equal to the literary pretensions of the City. Last year , the amount of money expended in the purchase of books was £4 7s 3d. We (Pott) learn with much pleasure that Mr R. S. Ledger has temporarily accepted the post of Manaeer of the N. Z. S. S. CoJ, pending further arrangements;. Mr Ledger was an early Wellington settler, and was for a long time agent for the Intercolonial R.M.S.S. Company, in which capacity he was so justly and universally popular and re* epected} that we feel certain much gratification will be felt on all sides at his return to a similar office.