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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 93, 20 April 1874, Page 2

Licensing Court.— The first licensing court under the new Act wiil be held in Nelson to-morrow morning. Permanent Building Society. — Tbe " subscription meeting" in connection with this Society; will be held at the Temperance Hall, this evening, at seven o'clock. Supreme Court. — The Supreme Court was formally opened this morning and adjourned to Monday next. The calendar is but a small one, the only criminal cases being William Barlow, for unlawfully wounding, adjourned from last sitting; Fdward Henry Reilly, for stealing a post letter; and Mary Ann Pihs, for keeping a house of ill fame. Of civil cases there are none. Claus-Rekel Concerts, — Our readers will scarcely require reminding that the first of this series of concerts is to be given to-night at the Masonic Hall. Mdlle. Claus brings with her the reputation of being one of the finest violin players that ever visited New Zealand, and Mdlle. Rekel is reputed to have a magnificent voice. However the Nelson public will tbis evening have an opportunity of judging for themselves, and wiil no doubt take advantage of it. Another Fire at Auckland. — After enjoying an immunity from the ravages of fire for several weeks, Auckland has, as will be seen by our telegrams, had another visit from her dangerous and determined enemy, who on the present occasion was defeated more easily than usual, only eight buildings having been destroyed. Ii it could be ascertained how many thousand pounds worth of property have been sacrificed within the last ten years, and what fraction of the amount so wasted would have provided the town with an efficient water supply, the information would be both interesting and instructive. The University Council wer"e occupied during the whole of Monday's and yesterday's sittings in the deliberation and drafting of a new University Bill, which it is proposed to submit to Parliament at its next sittings. The provisions of the Bill are, of course, uncommunicablo, but it is understood to be consequent upon the views expressed at the consideration of the question submitted to I

the deputation from the Otago University and Canterbury Collegiate Union. — Independent, April 15. No f ewer than nineteen girls have come foi ward to compete for provincial scholarships in Otago, and the fact is regarded with great satisfaction by the Dunedin press. Four of tho nineteen "fair girl" scholars are from the Dunedin District schools, ond seven are from the country. Messrs Hallenstein and Go's New Zealand Clothing Factory is described at some length in the Dunedin papers. This firm began operations shortly before the beginning pf the year wiih about a dozen hands, and bas now 100 (chiefly girls and women) employed. Racing a train with a plough horse or a donkey, which will keep the track iv front of the engine, is a favorite Bubject for American humorists with the pencil. Boating a train with a coach and four wa3 done here yesterday morning. A sporting reporter who saw the race states that the morning coach from the Hutt challenged the train to a fair run to town, started with it, and won " hands down,''—lndependent. Regarding steamers not taking cargo to New Plymouth, the Herald says the Southern merchants will not allow themselves to be Bhut out of the trade with that port, and, as a commencement, Messrs Turnbull, of Wellington, are going to put on the Stormbird for New Plymouth, to that the port shall not be isolated. The burning of the Tua Marina Hotel (Marlborough), has already been noticed. We see that the inmates had only timo to get out of the premises, without securing anything except the clothes they had on. In about fifteen minutes from the time the fire was first discovered, the building and its contents were completely destroyed, not a vestige of anything remaining except tbe chimneys and an American oven. Amongst the losses of Mr Davis was a sum of £45 which he had in his coat pocket, and had intended to bank, but the day was a holiday. Mr Davis was insured for £450 in the New Zealand Company. From papers to hand by the Otago we gather that the rush to the Palmer River diggings, nnd those of tbe Endeavor Eiver, is growing rather than otherwise. The Torres Strait mail steamer, which reached Cardwell from the North on the Ist inst., reported that she passed six sailing vessels and two steamers bound for the Endeavor River. On the following Saturday the barque Nevada left Brisbane /or the same destination, with 140 passengers and 104 horses, and the Alexandra sailed on the same day. The miners of Port Darwin were leaving for the new rush, the Tatarua having carried away thirty-five or forty, and several men had sailed from Palmerston io an opeD boat, determined to find their way to the name el dorado. A newspaper has been started at Cookstown. The first number contains an extract from a letter from a resident on the Palmer, dated March 12tb, which says :— " At present rations are not to be had unless at exorbitant prices, and then you have to ' bump ' them for miles, so tbat the time lost in obtaining tbe necessaries of life, and the high prices paid for them, take all the profit away you moke in getting gold. People should wait until dray-roads are made, and provisions on the ground sufficient for a year's demand, then the field will give profitable employment to from 3,000 to 4,000 people. The reefs, which ore now being opened daily, give every prospect of vying with some of the rich Gympie reefs. I saw the other day a magnificent specimen from the Queen of the North, at Gregory Gully. The reef at present is two feet thick, and tbe stone very much resembles the Gympie quartz." The Herald states that tbe piece of quartz has been lodged in the Australian Joint-Stock Bank, Cooktown. It weighs 288 ozs., and contains gold estimated at from 40 oz. to 50 ozs, per ton. On Tuesday in accident happened to a fine bull which Messrs Rose Brothers proposed entering for the Show tomorrow. It would seem that the animal was being taken to the river to drink when it rushed in witb such greed tbat it got into a deep place, and was drowned. It was supposed that it set its foot on a rope which was attached to it, and was thereby kept under the water, not having the sense to lift his foot again. — Marlborough Express. Mr G. D. Carter has been lecturing in Melbourne in defence of the use of intoxicating liquors. Tbe lecturer declared that among the old Jewish nation wine was a thing of everyday use, and was regarded not as a curse but a blessing; and that in a more recent dato of tbe Christian era, it was wine, not water, that the Good Samaritan poured into, the wounded traveller, and it was to an " inn," and not to a " Rechabite tent," that he was conveyed. One of Christ's miracles, also, was to turn water into wine, and not wine into water. Information has been received in Pieton of the discovery of a quartz reef in a new direction, bearing an almost fabulous amount of gold. We give the rumour for what it is wortb, aud, without placing implicit confidence in the value of tho find, hope the discoverers have not over estimated the importance of the new gold mine. — Press, The Provincial Government of Marlborough has engaged the Rev T. A. Bowden, B. A., of Wellington, to visit and inspect all the Public Schools in the Province, with a view of laying his report before the Provincial Council at the forthcoming session.