The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 325, 3 October 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874.

Wesleyan Church,— The Rev. W. f .Kea)l will preach in the Wesleyan J Ojhurch, to-morrow morning and evening At the usual hours.

Independent Oede r of Beohabites — We andewtand that a 'ftjnt of the above Order is shortly to be instituted in Nelaon. ; Mbbwnq op ET,ECTO|». r -Mr Richmond invites his constituents to meW him at Richmond, Stoke, and Suburbun "North on the days mentioned in his advertisement. frQojD {Templars, t- At the Loyal ?^. e l|M kxxfge, jalt evening, four new r. members were initiated, one admitted by card, and twelve propositions for membership 'received; " We observe that the first s hipment to Nelßou of tea direct from China has been-feceived bj Messrs Sdaoders and Co by the. Albion, having been transshipped at Wellington, ex May, from Foo Chow. Importation; is dow can ied on in a very different way from that which was customary in the, early days of the colony, when even our su^ar was imported from the West Indies, via London'. ■: , City ' Cotjncil.-t- A meeting of the Council was held at the new offices last night, but, in the absence of , the Mayor iwbo is at present at tha West Coast, little of importance was done. The tender of Mr Cockram of £12 a year for five years for the Cattle Market reserve was accepted. A letter was received from the BiehopofNelaon complaining that he had received no notice of the reserve, which he had hitherto leased, being to let. The appointment of Town Clerk was postponed for a week. The Surveyor was instructed to prepare plans and specifications of the necessary work in Kawai-street. Complaint was mode of the damage done by cattle to tbe streets in Ihe Wood, also ol a nuisance committed in tbe right of way behind the Wakatu Hotel by some person shooting rubbish into it, stopping up the drains. Reference was made to the difficulty of obtaining gravel, to which the Surveyor attributed the present bid state of the Haven Road. It was said that Mr Cross had recommended that the Boulder Bunk Bbould be surveyed as there was a considerable quantity might be obtained theie which would be replaced by spring tides. The Council then adjeurntd until Friday next. , A Discotery. — Onr telegrams inform us that a man named Smylhe has discovered, and succeeded in capturing two live moas. If this be true, Smith has hit upon the richest nugget yet found in New Zealand; the attractions even of Caoutchouc, the hairless horse, will prove as nothing compared with those of Mrs Moa and child. There are ooe or two little discrepancies in> tbe story, one being that ihe birds were found on the 26 ih September (Saturday) while we are told that two days later (on Thursday!) they were laken to the camp. It is somewhat strange too, that Smylhe, who from the telegram we take to be a shepherd, at the time going bis round with his dogs, should have a tether rope with him, with which he is reported to have caught as big a prize as has yet been secured in the Australian colonies. But it may be true. If so,, speaking from a pecuniary point of view, we should like to be Mr Smythe. An Auckland paper states that Mr J. C. Richmonrl was a candidate for the appointment of Secretary to the AgentGeneral, which Dr Feath'erstbn has conferred upon Mr Cashel Hoey, and Mr Yogel has given to Mr Kennaway. Mr Richmond is in England, and it would have been a good thing for this colony, had his servi ices been secured in the Agent-General's office. He is an excellent departmental officer, intimately acquainted with every portion iof the colony, and his claims were rer•ltainly superior to those of Mr Cashel Hoey, while there is little doubt that he would have proved a more efficient -Secretary than Mr Kennaway. We regret that if Mr Richmond applied for the office his application should have been naßUcqeeaful.rr^W.. An amusing story cornea from Dunedin. It appears that there are two lawyers there who cultivate the custom of tbe Chinese population considerably. One had a sign placed over his door, on which was an inscription in Chinese,' which rendered into English became "Very good barrister—very." His opponent also had a sign placed over his door, but it would appear that on some occasion or other he had displeased the Chinese artißt who did the work for him, for when it was put up the Chinese read it as " Him no good." The arlist was, perhaps, something of a rogue as well as c wit. The If. Z. Times of Thursday says: —The Taranaki, which took away a supplementary mail on a very bare hope of overtaking the Tararuß, has succeeded in doing so by the narrowest cbance. The Tararua left Wellington soon after noon on Sunday las:, the Taranaki followed on Monday evening. LoßiognotimeatLytteltontheTaranftki reached Otago Heads just as the Tararua was going out, and transhiped her mail-bags. Captain Wheeler has managed this business very smartly. I The third session of tbe fifth Synod | of the Diocese (Church of Englatd) of Wellington, commenred yesterday, at the Diocesau Room. The Bishop read an elaborate adtliesH, iv which he carefully reviewed thematters that had occupied tbe late General Synod; the position of the Church of England in New Z- aland in consequence oi tbe independence of ail Churches from the Church of England in those Colonies which have a Constitution granted by' the?lmperial authorities; and the pro-

position made in England to hold a con-, ference of all the branches of the Auglij can Church, to acknowledge therein | the Archbishop of Canterbury as Patri- | arch; and to establish a Central Court of Appeal, which, although a voluntarily '* i appointed body, would finally decide all I questions amongst Anglican churchmen. He dwelt carefully upon the need of education being established upon a system which should not ignore religious teaching as an integral part thereof; and he desired to bring before all churchmen the needs of the Diocesan Fund originated to supply the financial wants of the Church in outlyiug dis-, tricts. : He hoped before the end of the present year to have other ..clergymen,,, established in places now vacant, bore witness to the increased desire amongst the Maoris for religious services.— X. Z. Times. ■.