The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 169, 18 July 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1874.

WESLBrAN Church. — Mr B. Short will preach in the Wealeyan Church to-morrow evening, at half-past flix o'clock.

Colonial Bank. —Au important telegram was received this afternoon by the Local Committee, announcing that the Directors have secured the services of Messrs Beal and Warren, long known and esteemed iv their connection with the Bank of New Zealand. Mr A. W. Morrie, of Dunedin, will also be officially connected with the management of the affairs of the Bank, The news has excited great interest in Dunedin, and most of :onr readers will recollect Mr Warren during the many years he wefl in the Union Bank here. Sudden Death.— News was brought into town (his morning of ihe sudden death of Mrs Boseley, of the Bay View Hotel, Suburban North, who was found lying dead on a sofa this morning. An inquest was held at noon, but we have not yet heird the result. : Resident Magistrate's Court.— Thomas Brooks, of Eighty-Eight Valley, was charged by Mr Waiter Thomson, of Te Arowhenua, Waimea South, with unlawfully and maliciously wounding a sheep belonging (o him. Prisoner was committed for trial, bat admitted to hail, himself in £50, and two sureties of £50 each. Mr Pitt appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Acton Adams for the prisoner. Important Sale. — Ihe stearaer Lady Barkly will leave for Collingwood direct on Monday evening, at 6 o'clock, to enable intending purchasers to be present at the sale of the mining plent, &c, of the Perseverance Company, which will be put up to auction by Mr Mabin on Wedneaday. On Tuesday Mr Mabin will also sell by auction the property of the late Mr Scbaefer at Collingwood. We hear (says the West Coast Times) that the Government are taking considerable interest in the proposal for the construction of a line between here and Christchurch, and it is rumored that one of their engineering staff has been detailed to check the surveys recently made by Mr Browning between here and the Pass. Should it be found, as we have every expectation will be the case, that a route to avoid tunnelling at all can be pointed out, the cost will be vastly relieved, and the t probabilities of early construction he greatly hastened. The Melbourne Argus, in alluding to the weights for the Melbourne Cup, remarks : — " It is seldom that the declaration of the handicap for the Melbourne Cup has been received with so much indifference ns it has the present year. It can hardly be said that any favorite has yet been made, though there ia au incliuatioa to select the four-year-olds in the doubleevent betting that takes place. One bookmaker has opened a double event book on the Geelong Hurdle Race and the Melbourne Cup at 1000 to 5. Rory O'More, Welshman, and Horizon are the most fancied for the Hurdle Race. For the Metropolitan 10 to 1 is offered on tho field, while 100 to 5 is offered against anything in the Melbourne Cup." The following is an extract of a letter received from Mr Andrew Duncan, immigration agent for Canterbury j by last mail: — "Your reply to this will be the last letter I shall receive. You need not write after June, as I intend starting for home in Septembor. The new ship Canterbury, leaving here on the 4th June, will be the last I shall have oo my own account, but many persons have gone to Canterbury from England already through what I have done here, and another 1000 will very likely go When Igo amoig them again. The Agent-General has been requested by several influential persons in Rossshire, Syke, and Lewis, to take 400 or 500 people from there, who want to go to Canterbury—the outcome of my visit to those districts. I will not take any responsibility further thau their inspection, to do which I have been requested by the Agent-General, who will put on a ship here in the end of July, if the requisite number comes forward. I was nway in England for three weeks lecturing, and have now completed my fifty lectures in six months, I have recoived every assistance in my work from all quarters, and feel certain that New Zealand, and especially Canterbury, will not be the unknown place it was when I came to this country," -ZEgleß in the Australasian cays — " I have seen a Speaker in the lurid spleudour of his official robes — I have been dazzled by the trappings of a Past Grand of the Cucumber Lodge of Free Gardeners — I have been privileged to gaze in speechless wonder at a foreign consul in white coat and scarlet trowsers, who is go proud of his legs that he closes the blinds of the cab that conveys him to a parliamentary opening, and hides his hat and feathers under the Beat — all these wonders have I seen gratis, yet what are they to the gloriousness of the Mayor of Christchurch ? This is how that functionary startles the rest of mankind. His ' robe is composed of purple velvet, with train of eighteen inches, trimmed with ermine, and lined with amber-colored silk, and large open sleeves. The band or collar is made of black velvet edged with handsome gold braid, and four gold stars on breast of same, and attached to the point is the city coat of nrmg, embroidered in gold and silver, with gold border. The first link of a chain is also appended to the coat of arras, the intention being to add the links of the preceding mayors. The cap is made of the same velvet, with gold button and ermine border.' This man must have a quiet time. He caa'fc ; have many troubles."