The Nelson Eveening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 152, 29 June 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Eveening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1874.

We are glad to see by an advertisement of M. De Monfalk's. that the success of his French Class has induced him to open others for Italian, Germao, and English literature. Italian has never been taught in Nelson before, and the acquirement of it by ladies who sing especially, would be an advantage as well as a pleasure. A class for English and foreign literature should also be largely patronised by young ladies, to whom a knowledge of our best authors would be of great use.

Civil Service Examinations. — Jumes Green and George Frederick Colin Campbell, of Nelßon, are gazetted as having passed both the junior and senior examinations for the civil service. In the latter, Campbell was third and Green fifth on the list, which contains seven namef.

John B. Gough, the well-known temperance orator, is not at all pleased, we observe from the American papers, with the female crusade oguinst rum, and expresses himself as follows on the question: — " I would be unwilling to seo my wife or my nieces going about among the saloonp, praying and singing hymns. I think the movement would help the woman suffrage cause very much, and I have always had a sort of dislike to (he woman suffrage business. The idea of a band of ladies going through the streets singing hymns and praying is repugnant to me. Ic is the duty of policemen to clear away a crowd of men obstructing the pavement, and I think the women should come unier the same restrictions."

Cricket appears to be becoming quite a fashionable game with the ladies in Victoria, and we are pleased to see that those who play it in public, do so in order to further a good object. On the Queen's birthday the ladies of Geelong played a njatph at Steigleiz, when a good snm was gathered tq be given to an aged and infirm couple in the district who much needed charitable aid. The report adds: — " The young ladies thoroughly understood the game, and played with good judgment and great skill. There was not a discordant word Uttered, or any hitch in the proceedings, or the least coqfusion throughout the whole play. The ladies of North Steigletz won the victory, and with most modest dignity received the applause of the assemblage." The wiuning team made 102 runs in one innings, and their opponents 56 In two innings.

Some strange individuals appear to be placed on the commission of the peace in JjTew Sonth Wales. In one of the country districts of that Colony, very recently, a case of larceny, occupied the attention of the Court of Petty Sessions. The prisoner, when being baptised, was blessed with the name of Henry; and it happened in this instance, as it frequently does, that the Magistrate, who, by the way, was chairman of the Court, and Henry were at one time what is termed " old cronies." The larceny case closed, the magistrates bad the usual consultation for ten minutes or so, and then the chairman, addressing the prisoner, said, " Well, Henry, you have this Court without a stain upon your character; still, for all that, we must give you three months."

A Newcastle, Del., physician tried the experiment of grafting a piece of his own skin on a colored man. The piece grew, but in three months it was as dark as the surrounding cuticile.

It has been decided, at a public meeting at Birmingham, to found local scholarships in connection with the National Training School for lyiusic, now being founded in London. A deputation from the society of arts attended, including Major-Geuerl Eardly Wilmott, R A., and other gentlemen. Nearly £1000 were subscribed in aid of the funds, and a committee formed.