The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 151, 27 June 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874.

All Saints' Church. — There will be a special service in this church in the evening of Monday next, St. Peter's Day.

The Circus troupe returned to town thJB morning after a satisfactory visit to the country, and will give a farewell performance this evening.

Inttaed and Outward Mails — The San Francißco mail, which arrived at Auckland last night, may be expected here by the Wellington early on Monday morning. The outward Suez mail will be despatched by the Tararus, advertised to leave here on Tuesday next.

Mr Butler writes to correct an error that occurred in the manuscript of his first letter, the word "from" having been omitted between the words " inr " ani " the ordinary courtesy." He further writes to us under yesterday's date: — V Discovering the blunder I had made, beg to withdraw my letter of this morning, and to thank you for holding it over."

Smith's Combination Company, — '\ he members of this Company were again greeted by a full house last night, when the acrobatic feats of the tiny children and their muscular parents delighted all who witnessed them. The ventriloquism of Vul Vose, the aerial performances of Airec, and the singing of Mr St. Vincent were all loudly applauded, and the only fault that was found with Mr Saunders' harp playing was that there wa3 not enough of it. The farewell entertainment will be given this evening, at reduced prices.

Auckland Debentures. — Tenders under the "Auckland Improvement Act, 1873," for the whole or any portion of debentures representing £50,000, bearing six per cent interest, will be received at the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland up to noon on Tuesday next.

An amusing incident occurred in the Goulbum Police Court (says, the Southern Argus) when a legal practitioner was subjected to an indignity consequent on the advice he had given to his client. The learned gentleman was defending nn excitable member of the fair sex, and was eo repeatedly interrupted by her in his explanation of the circumstances of the case that be at length sat down, and told ihe lady to show to the Bench herself the manner in which she had been treated. This she accordingly proceeded to do, and in demonstrating the conduct of one of the witnesses for the prosecution, seized hold of her advocate, and in spite of remonstrance, dragged him forcibly from bis chair, an escape from being landed on the ground in an undignified position being only effected by his grasping firmly the edge of the table fronting him. Fortunately for the attorney neither blows nor kicks formed any part of the circumstances being represented, for had they done eo it is most probable that the lady would in her excitement have fully completed the demonstration.

Natmes of Places in Tasmania. — A correspondent of the Hobart Town J\.ercury asks whether the aborigines or the Europeans named certain places in Tasmania. When, on the 23rd November, 1811, Governor Macquarie went down from Sydney in the armed tender Lady Nelson, to pay his first official visit to that colony, which was then, end continued up to 3rd December, 1825, a dependency of New South Wales, his Excellency went across the island, accompanied by his lady and their nephew, the A.D.C., and Mr Evbdb, the Surveyor-General, and their route is marked by the names of himself and his native place, his wife and her native place, and also of noted places in the Bible, a copy of which the staunch old Presbyterian always carried, in the breast pocket of his coat. Hence we have Jericho and Jerusalem, because near Flat Topped Hill as you go from Jerusalem to Jericho there was an armed band of bushranger?, amongst whom (as he of old did in going down from one place to the other) unarmed travellers were sure to fall. We have Macquarie street, river, plains, harbor, and mount; and Lacblan River, and township (his Christian name was Lachlan), .. We have Elizabeth (his wife's name) river, town, mount, and street. We have Campbell Town, his native place, and Perth, her native place.

The Southland Times has been informed by a gentleman who has recently returned from a business tour in the Wakatip district th&t there are thousands of bushels of grain which the farmers cannot dispose of even at the low prices, ruling, viz., 3s per bushel for wheat, and the same for bats, of good quality. The difficulty ia the absence of economical means of trans* port to the seaboard.