The Nelson Evening THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 108, 7 May 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1874.

H. J. L. Augaude quotes National Bank Shares at 72s 6d; Perseverance shares at 17s per share ; Maiden City south of Lyell Creek, one half-share at £20. Business done this day. San Francisco Mails — The incoming mail arrived by the Phoebe this morning, and the outgoing one will be conveyed by her to Auckland tbis evening. An additional opportunity will be afforded by the Ladybird which leaves here to-morrow, for Wellington where she will meet the^lyphrenes. An Appeal. — Subscription? nre being raised in town and the country districts in aid of the widow of the late Richard Savage, who was accidentally killed by a fall from the wharf. Mrs Savage iB left with bi'x children and almost entirely destitute. We commend her case to the notice pf the charitable. Bachelder's Pantascopk. — Bachelder's views of a tour through America, which are said to be really beautiful pictures, will be on view at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. They are accompanied by an accomplished band of musicians. The Poverty Bay Standard says the Nnpier Artillery Volunteers held a meeting lately nt the Forester's arms, when the question of disbandraent was unanimously negatived, and it was unanimously and magnanimously resolved that the corps should be worthy of being one of tbe best in New Zealand, and . moreover that it should be worthy of being " inspected by any one in Bpile of tho disapprobation, animadversions, and strictures of Major Gordon, which, in the opinion of the meeting, were inapplicable, uncalled for, and inadmissible," Major Gordon's conduct is also reported in the Daily Telegraph to have been "severely commented on as unworthy of an officer nod a gentleman." [If tbis be correct, we can only say that Major Gordon's conduct roust bave been altogether at variance with what it was in Nelson, and we believe that every volunteer in this province will be of opinion that he is not one of those who is likely to forget his position as " an officer and a gentleraan."] The Waipara brought up lOOozs. of gold from the Haast to Hokitika on Thursday 60oz. of which was received from one party of miners. This quantity of gold is tbe result of many months' work, and is mostly coarse and nuggetty. A miner named Peter M'Millan died suddenly at Hokitika on Wednesday. He was under medical treatment, aud it is suspected he drunk some liniment by mistake. From the number of fat sheep and bullocks washed ashore, and now lying on the beach between New Plymouth and Waiters, the Taranaki News imagines a tbat some cattle vessel has of late experienced very stcrmy weather on the coast, A player at whist, may hold above 635 thousand millions of various hands, bo tbat continually varied, at 50 deals per evenipg for 313 days or 15,(150 hands per anuum he might be above 40 millions of years before he would have the same hand again. Frank Bockland — Prince of Acclimatizes — tells us that " onco upon a time some fishermen were yarning against each other, and at last an old fellow informed the company that salmonfishery inspectors and poople of that kind did not know their business. They knew nothing about the salmon. When he was a boy he caught a smolt, and took it home, and after a time he tamod it. He then had to go away for several years to sea, and when he came home again his smolt had grown into a thirty-pound salmon, and was going about the farm yard picking up seeds with the hens /"