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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 171, 21 July 1874, Page 2

Coroner's Inquest.— -The adjourned enquiry into the death of Mra Boseley was resumed thia afternoon at tho Court-Houae, but was not concluded at the time of opr going to press. 9 \f Colonial BANK,*-Thanauibe? of shares applied for, up? to 4 o'clock this J

afternoon, in Nelson and suburbs, exclusive of tbe West Coast, is 4,764, and applications are coming in freely.> I Radical Reform: League. — £A large ranting, 0 $ %&■ merai&ers of^We League was held last night, when several topics were introduced for discussion, the principal one being the Municipal Corporations Act. The action of the? Executive ; in, reducing salaries and amalgamating 6ffioe|. dot with tbe approval of the League. The Government steamer Luna arrived from Wellington this mofninpT She sails this evening for the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, where she will remain two or. three days, aad then proceed lo the Manukau. The Otago was to leave Melbourne on the 15th instapt for the Biaff, .where she may now be hourly expected. We have fo acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer of No. 2 Hansard, and a batch of Parliamentary papers. Sessional visitors to; Wellington will not be ..favorably impressed .wtith the climate, if we may judge from lhe following paragraph from the A 7. Z. Times : — Old residents, unwilling as they are to complain of the climate; of Wellington, are forced to aJmit that they do not remember haying experienced , at least for many years, such a season for rata as the present It has rained more or less every day, with scarcely an exception, for the last couple of months, and, as the month of August, js usually the..wette3t^Qf the year, there is a lively prospect before of v fine weather for the ducks." Yesterday and the day before were, no doubt, the coldest experienced this winter. In the face of the surly blast from south east, (south-west, we suppose, outside) it could not; be J denied that "this is winter fairly." Yesterday morning .the ground was white in many places with mixel snow and hail; and so heavy were the showers bf hail ibat fell yesteidiy afternoon that the juveniles, if they were unable to make snow-balls after the old English pattern, were at least able to make hail-halls for their own pleasure — add the discomfort of those way-farers to whom they are addressed. More disagreeable weather, in short, than that of the last two days has (seldom been experienced on the shores of Port Nicholson.