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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 160, 8 July 1874, Page 2

Nelson Abtizans' Association .— Members of tbis Society will notice in our advertising columns that tonight's meeting will be held in the Radical Reform League Rooms, opposite Messrs Sclanders, & Co's. H. J. L. Augarde quotes National Bank shares at 765. Business done tbis day. The Albion and Phcebe arrived this afternoon from Wellington, and sailed again by the same tide, the former for Melbourne via West Coast ports, and tbe latter for tbe North. The Goublay Family. — This talented family, who performed here some four.years ago to large audiences, arrived by the Phoebe this afternoon, and will give three entertainments, commencing to-morrow evening. Nelson Artillery Company. — His Excellency the Governor has appointed James Barton Sadd to be Lieutenant, and Joseph Wladislas Edmond de Montalk to be second Lieutenant in the Nelson Artillery Company ; commissions to date from the 18th Junei 1873. Waimea Road Board.— The elections to supply vacancies in the Board caused by the retirement of Messrs Rout, Baigent, and Win, whose term of office had expired, took place on Monday last at the advertised polling places in the respective sub-districts. Mr E. Baigent was unanimously re-elected for Spring Grove. Messrs Rout and Win haviug declined to be nominated, Mr G. F. Martin was returned unopposed for Stoke, and Mr W. Jordan, for Dovedale. Moutere Road Board. — The annual meeting of ratepayers for the sub-dis-trict of Upper Moutere took place on Monday last, for the purpose of electing one member to represent the subdistrict at tbe Road Board in place of Mr F. Beosemaa, whose term of office

expired. Owing to tho rainy weather and bad roads, but few assembled. Mr F. Benseman was re-elected without opposition. The Sydney papers state that an ingenious i --chart-' has been .arranged by Mr Cracknel!, _ Superintendent of Telegraphs in New South Wales, by which the state of wind and weather throughout lhe whole colony is daily recorded. The direction of the wind is indicated by arrows, a calm by a small red circle, and rain by a black dot. The record is compiled every morning from the weather report, and posted up by eleven o'clock. An amusing incident occurred at Poverty Bay the other day, which affords a practical illustration of the old adage, "A little learning is a dangerous tiling." It is thus related by a correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald:—" A Maori called upon' oue of the settlers with an order upon him for £35, purporting to have been drawn by a well-known Maori chief in the district. The document may be translated as follows .—June 13, 1874; Friend, iena hoe. This is my letter, asking you to give the money to Hon, for which be bas been asking you lately. Now, this is my consent — that you should give £35 as a gift to him. Do not give him £40, but let the £35 stop there. But you muat pay it to him at once when you receive this letter.. Enough. „-Pj.ta te Huha. — Mr Chamb* rs, upon whom the order was drawn, thought he had better not pay Mr Hori the £35 at once, and told him tbat he would see Pita te Huha, the ostensible drawer of the order, before parting with any coin on his behalf. Pita te Huha, when questioned on the subject, denied all knowledge of the order, and Mr Hori was brought up yesterday charged with forgery, and remanded until the 24th instant. A brilliant voice is almost as valuable a property as a rich eoalmioe. We are indebted to an American interviewer for some curious facts bearing upon the subject. The well known brothers Strakosch are perhaps the most goahead of all our modern purveyors of musical entertainments. One controls the Italian opera in Paris; the other makes the United States bis special field of operations. It was the latter who was interviewed at New York tbe other day. He tells us that in his first concert engagement with Madame Neilison, that accomplished lady's terms were £200 a night and half of the gross receipts after £800 Nor was this all. He had to. pay her 4 * toilet bills" and fiod her with carriages, "as is always the rule of all her engagements." She subsequently sang for him in the opera, her terms being again £200 a night, but with some modifications as regards the sharing of the gross receipts. Altogether from those two engagements Madame Neilison cleared the astounding sum of 260,000 dollars, or, say, £50,000. Tie young King of Siara having come of age recently, great feasts were given to his subjects at Bangkok, the chief town of his domi lion. Amongst other attractions was the ascent of a small mounted balloon, which had been constructed inParis and had arrived by steam a few days previously. Liberal offers were made to procure an aeronaut, but were of no avail, nobody amongst the Siamese presuming . to ascend. Consequently his Majesty ordered a slave, selected from amongst the less heavy of his household, fo b_ sent up in the car. In order to encourage the poor aeronaut, so frightened for his life, he was promised to be rewarded with his enfranchisement. The ascent took place and elicited much enthusiasm from the bystanders'; but, unhappily, nothing was heard from the poor fellow or of the craft. The following is ao American rule for measuring bayatacks:— To measure the contents of a stack of hay, proceed as follows: — If it is a round stack, tapering from the point to the ground, measure the width half way between the ground and the peak of tbe stack, multiply tbis width by itself, and divide the sum by 7584; this will give the average area of the surface covered by the stack. Then multiply that by the height from the ground of the point where ths width was measured. If these measurements are feet the sum found is tbe cubic feet in the stack. If the hay is timothy, orchard grass,, millet, or Hungarian, 500 feet will make a ton, or a cube eight feet each way. If the stack is very solid, and was cut when deid ripe, 350 feet will make a ton, or a cube of seven feet each way. If the hay is mixed with clover, about 700 feet or a cube nine feet each way, will make a ton. If the hay is mixed with clover or meadow grass, or seed top, 800 feet wiil be required to weigh a ton, unless it is pressed very hard, when some allowance must be made. The estimates are made from the notes of a great many stacks and mows of various kinds, and will give a fair average. The correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle at Jerusalem writes : — " The enormous immigration of Russian aod Polish Jews goes on without intermission. Last autumn every Russian boat from Odessa and every Austrian boat from Trieste brought 40 or 50 families. Among these were several rich men, who immediately on their arrival bought ground and built houses, especially outside the oity near the gate, on both sides of the Jaff Road, so that a new suburb, in fact a 'new Jerusalem,' is springing up here. The finest houses belong to our co-religionists. It would be a happy thing for Jerusalem if there were sufficient rich persons in the. oity itself to obviate the constant appeals to Europe for relief.