The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 92, 18 April 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874.

Nelson Football Club ■ — A meeting of member- of this club will bo held at the Fire Brigade room on Monday evening at seven o'clock. Church Parade.— There will bo a church parade to-morrow morning when the City companies of volunters will attend divine service at All Saints' Church. •Nelson Baces. — The refreshment room cf the Grand Stand was sold to-day to Mr J. Disher for £13 103. Two other booths realised £6 aod £1 10a respectively. The Stand was eold to Mr Gollop for £25. City Council. — The first meeting of the City Council was held last night. There was no business of importance done, and the election of a Mayor was adjourned for a fortnight. Mr. Fisher's Assignment. — The assignment of Mr T. R. Fisher to Messrs Hartmano, Donald, and Staverr, was gazetted lately, A provisional statement shows the liabilities to be £30,269 19a 10J, and the assets £35,743 12s 2d, " but in consequence of heavy contingent liabilities, and for othor reasons this estimate is not likely to be realised." Hops. — Wo take the following from the Australasian of the 4th inßt:—- --•' For hops we quote Kent, best quality 1873, at le.Ud to 2a; yearlings at. lid to 1 s 3d. Shoobridge's Tasmanian have been quitted at Is 9d to Is lOd. Other qualities range from Is 6J to }q ,7J. Claus-Rekel Concerts— -The first of a series of concerts in which Mdlle. Claus, tbe celebrated violiniste, Mdlle. Rekd, and others will take part, will be given at the Masonic Hall on Monday evening. Judging by the notices that have appeared in the press in other parts of the colony, these concerts will afford a rich treat to all lovers of music. Alarm of Fire.— Tho alarm was sounded at two o'clock this afternoon, in consequence of a fire having broken out in a patch of gorse at the rear of the house occupied- by Mr Tucker, the Manager of tho Telegraph office. With the strong south-west breeze tbat was blowing, the house for some time was in imminent danger, but tbe speedy arrival of the brigades, and a plentiful supply of, water, soon, removed all cause for fear. The Auckland cricketers have received an important accession to their strength. A local journal notices the unexpected arrival of a professional cricketer in Auckland; Mr F. • Burgess is a Kent man, and arrived in that Province by the ship Wave Queen; going there for the benefit of his health. His performance on the 21st February was not under favorable circumstances. Just landed from a long sea voyage.'and not having handled a bat or a ball for five months previously he could not be in anything like fettle, However, what little was 1 seen of him was sufficient to convince all that he was a " topper " — in slang phrasology. With reference to the Para Para iron ore, Professor Black, of Dunedin, says : — "This is a sample of good concretionary iron ore, and consists almost entirely of hydrated sesquioxide of iron (limonite). Upon analysis, thero was 16 per cent of water, partly constitutional, partly moisture ; 59.8 per cent of metallic iron. This is one of the best iron ores in any country, and if plentiful near coal it will form the staple of a most valuable industry. C_.3 of the most interesting ceremonies connected with the railway system of the Colofiy, was the; recent formal commencement of the tunnel at Deborah Bay, Port Chalmers, on the Dunedin and Moeruki line. The tunnel, when completed, will be 1440 yardß in leDgtb. Racing arrangements in Hokitika fail to give general satisfaction, if a letter written by a boothholder to the Register proves anything. He says— "While the self-styled 'Westland Racing Club' is composed of persons without the slightest sympathy for tbo popular and and manly sport of horse racing as a sport, but wbo merely look upon it as a means of iaising money from owners of horses, from the public, from booth-holders, and from applesellers, so long will' tho Club be a byeword and a Bcoff in the limited circle in which it is known ; and so long will the public of Hokitika bave to pay their shillings to witness such miserable apologieß for sport, as tho dreary exhibition of yesterday." A man named Fenton Champion, formerly a bugler in tbe 18th Foot, who has been living for some time as u gum digger at Kumea, near Riverhead, in the " far North," has been burned to death, his whare, in which he lived alone, having caught fire and been burned down while ho was on a drinking bout. Mr Thomas Rcse, of tbe Posloffice, Liverpool, who was selected by the Hon John Hall, in conjunction with the postal authorities io Auckland, to succeed the late Mr William Gray, as Inspector of Postoffices in New Zealand, has arrived in Wellington by the way of Canterbury, and begun the duties of • his office. We need not say that Mr Rose comes well recommended.