The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 250, 21 October 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1874.

<A petition Am presented thief morning to the Superintendent asking him to call a public meeting, signed by 217 persons. By tbe s.s. Taranaki yesterddyi, MrGully, -who. at the invitation of the Gove/jpprJ fccprapahied [ 'Kim^ joi| bis* visit to the Sounds on the West Coast of this island, returned to Nelson. During t|ie whole of, the trip there iwere only two fine days, but fortunately these occurred when the Blanche was in Milford Sound, of the scenery of which Mr, Gully, bas .seyeral sketches.' . • •• ' - '• i : ! * ''A1... The Enolish JMah. -r-The Tararua which leaves Greymouth ; this afternoon,' Will arrive at Neleon by to-morrow** af teraoo^'f itide si th th'§ -sgljpji : ; portion^ of the English mail^aod as she also has the Wellington portion of the mail on board, she will leave again for that-port early on Friday morning. ML a G*s tb Aje s ' Gour^.-— #ejiry ; Brooks alias John Wadworth, of Wakefield, was this morning charged, before R. Pollock and / H:G. Daniel!, Esqs., J.J.P., witb altering a cheque upon the Bank 1 of ; New South Wales for £1 3s. 10d., given to bim by W. Bettany in payment for a bag of .wool,: to £21 3s. lOd. The case for the prosecution haviog closed, prisoner wss, after tbe usual warning, asked what he had to aay, when, after some consideration, be made tbe following statement : — «Xt was a quarter-past two when I went to tha Bank. I did not alter the cheque at all. I lost it on the road down at tbe Port. About ten minutes after I saw a Maori with it, and gave him five shillings to get it back, and, when I got it, it was just as it is now." Prisoner was committed for trial. Independent Obdkb op Recetabites. — A Tenti called the Bud of Promise, wae instituted in Nelson last evening by the Rev. W. Sbirriffs, of Blenheim, assisted by Mr. R. Rush. Tbe teetotallers of Nelaon bad long felt tbe necessity of haviog a 1.-enefit society in which the members couid realise tb« advantages of the abstinence principle It is a fact loug established that among total abstainers from alcoholic liquors there is less sickness than among i>o«abatainers, consequently tbere are in this society all the advantages of benefit societies with less risk, and therefore the payments may be lower than in those societies which do not embody thi. abstinence principle. The following werd elected the officers for the first term: — Chief Ruler, J. T. Smitl.-; Deputy Ruler, F. Coles; Secretary, J. S. Joneß; Treasurer. A. Wilkh ; Stewards, T. Brooker and W. T. Shet - wood; Levite, C. Spring; Guardian, T. B. Coburn; Right Hand Supporle-, ' Jbho Smith; Left Hand Supporter, T. Shone. — Communicated. , The Melbourne Cop — "Augur" writea in the Australasian :— l( 1 r«n ouyo Iflemiqgtpn on Saturday . morning, and saw the New Zealand mare Ldrline do a capital gallop, attended

during Jhe first portion by Papapa, and i afterwards b> Calomoy. Lurfine again pleased me immensely^ going in fine form, and sneaking along with such beauoul action that one could not help admWng.lier/'^-Ia the betting market report of the 3rd inst., Lurline was at 100 to 8, but ou tbe 10th she had receded to 100 to 5. The Australasian of the latter date says : — " Lurline has been .backed for plenty, tots' money, %but strangely enou<__4 though 500 to 40 was taken last week, 500 to 25 has been laid more than once duringtherpresent week;- - ■•- - — - The Carnatic for Picton direct, with immigrants for Marlborough, sailed .from Shetland on August 15tb, and may be expected to arrive here next mon th. — Express. TW< times of; Friday last ' Biiyr.~l_._s Excellency 'returned .to. town yesterday from his cruise on the West Coast. In this second effort jto visit Jh&w.ld_ and. majestic j_clqer;y tp( that part ( c(fv liie Middle Isl^A, ff\fr -Unme^ Fefgt.Ssdn^Was*' afmost blf_W^ once more by the severity of the ■ • Weather. 'As our -readers ' : are 'aware, it was found desirable to send back the yacht Blanche-: from Nelsbnj and shemade a rough and perilous passage across. Proceeding by; H. M. S. Blanche, the had weather continued, only .. one: ytyroday/, having beien ; : ex- ■ perienced. Tbe Blanche visited j- J^-fo?d,Sopod, .where, in. Freshwater;, ABastn, jhe ,w^s _aoor^d|b^jhe Htgt a tree. She next entered Anchorage - Cpve.in George S^uod, and afterwards ' Richard Sound. " Whilst there tbe shock of an earthquake waa experienced, A The Blanche iheu^on' thb dili Histant) . proceeded to Dusky Sound, and from thence to Port Chalmers. Sir James ? Eerguss^d catn« thence hy/tb'e Taranak i,' which exf)eriene^d' ! the fdll force of B tW Gerce north-west gale which blew oo . W_e!n£s«i_By. night and Thursday morntnjr, but made a remarkably good run tf ebty-ooe hout s, T^eneid(eri ng the severity of the^ weather. " ~" A torchlight procession in honor of Miss Alice May was got up in Wellington on Saturday night. The -Times sayef.^Ati -the close*" of the' performance at the Theatre tbe nm_.en.ns; a_x_ie_iefe> ■ instead ot' die- 51 pei sing as usual, waited about to witness tbe torchlight procession which* waa announced tq take place- as a mark blfrthe esteem Jand Admiration whioh tbe Central Volunteer Fire Brigade :held for Miss AHcer-May fll th© prirua donna. By half-past 11 o'clock every- ; thing was in .readiness, and the , crowoA which lined each side of the street and blocked up the road was ; something immense, thousands being in waiting to witness tbe affair. At the time .mfntioned, ther members pf the Brigade formed, carrying the handsome and rlihly-wo.ked banner which Mi6B May had presented to them oo the occasion of. the benefit for tbeir sick fund. Headed by the Artillery Band, playing i .a lively air, _tjb,e ; prqqepsipn star led at a ' \juick tnartlf upr*hB s «redt, with lighted torches, preceding Miss May in a carriage drawn by a pair of greys, and driven by a member of the • brigade, witb aootber,on tbe box holding toi ches. A stream of foot passengers and numerous, carriages and cabs accompanied thef '|r^cj.Bß.oi_, and the street presented a moat imposing and novel I sight, which, was ad^ed to; lin effect by . Jhe varied lights from the torches. As tfiey " proceededj^Miss May bowed Her <■' acknowledgments 'to the crowd, who continued to cheer loudly all tbe way up ihe ; _t.ee_. ' opposite fhe JEmpire Hotel another large crowd awaited tbe arrival, aod' : the balconies and' upper. ■ stoVe^ : Vijiffp^r ,*s?s& hejgbborhooii J were crowded. .' A's .Miss 'May descendedn ded < from the Carriage and gracefully bowed her (hanks,' 'three ringing cheers were given -by the brigade and heartily taken up by ? the . crowd, until the air rang again with the enthusiastic shouting. „ An interesting piece of news comes to us by.way of ; America. It is that the various magnificent but secret donations that have been given to the different charitable* institutions of London during the past few years have been traced to the Queen, who is said to have disposed of ovpr £100,000 in that way. The JVarrnambool Examiner, Victoria, observes that Judge Skinner hss a wholsome contempt for the Government Gazette. In an insolvency case, his Honor declined to grant a certificate, on the ground that the insolvent had concealed bim3elf from his creditors by advertising the meeting in the Gazette only. It was bad enou»b, he said, in any case to advertise only in a journal which no one ever reads, but it is mucb worse when the applicant could only pay 7s in tbe £, The application was adjourned, to give time for advertisements in Geelong, and Camperdown, where the creditors reside. The Dublin fishworaan who collapsed when O'Connell called ber " a hypothenuee," and the housemaid who came home from the ball indignantly because because her swniu asked her after supper if her programme was full, bave their parallel in Sandhurst. One of those agreeable young persons whose duty it is to dispense sherry and be> flirted with, had replaced for an hour tha regular practitioner af a particular, bar. The temporary occupant, seeing fche relief coming, was about rctirtir; 1 , when a gentleman vko had been; in conversation with her suggested her remaining /or a little. " Oh," said the' friend, " She can't. She's only a locum tenens." h( At which the lady Jooked daggers, and suggested if be couldn't say anything agreeable he might just as well keep' BiletiU—Ausfral&tdnl y: