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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 208, 2 September 1874, Page 2

Meeting of the Electobb. — Mr Luckie'a meeting takes place at the Provincial Hall this evening at halfpast seven. Wesleyan Church. — A lecture on church psalmody will be delivered at the above church by the Rev. W. B. Marten tbis evening, at seven o'clock. A collection will be made at tbe close in aid of tbe harmonium fund. Temperance Meeting. —At the last meeting of the Temperance Society at St. Mary's, Nelson, the number of different enrolments amounted to 268. Tbis Society was established at the Catholic Station, by the Rev." Father GariD* after the principle of Father Matthew, and we are glad to find both juveniles and adults attaching their names in such respectable numbers to tbis useful Society. Resident Magistrate's Court.— - Eiienne Durand and Joseph Dagorne were brought up again this morning, oh a charge of stealing goods to tbe value of £5, from the barque La Paix, and sentenced to four months imprisonment with bard labor. John Hersey, for deserting from the barque Adamant, waß sentenced to 7 days' imprisonment, tbe costs of the proceedings against him to be stopped out of his wages. Mrs. Palmer's musical and dramatic entertainment last night was, we were glad to see, well attended, the OddFellows' Hall being filled almost to excess, and va every sense it certainly

was a complete success. To criticise in\dofaU;.an amateu^rierjfQrmance of thisj-desctiption vwouldt : not be fair to those who take part in it, nor is it at all nectary to dojJ_Bj>T~ Suffice it to say that nearly all jhe^perforujers appeared, to have taken great pains in getting up and studying the parts allotted to them, and that on the whole they succeeded in thoroughly satisfying the audience, •dl.of -wjipmi if we may judge from the. r .eneaceb| appflaus^ jand; the comments:" that reached our ears on leaving the Hall at the termination of the entertainment, appeared to have greatly enjoyed their evening's amusement. We notice that the entertainment is to be repealed on Monday evening.