The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 265, 9 November 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874.

Thr Artillery Ball at the Provincial Jf^qWS &*<>fom g°K «»P by tl»e .QtftinUft: Clnb nt the Oddfellows' Hall, promise to be well attended, tickets ftr buili lin? tug been disposed of-in eonsideral)|%.,pqmberflLy y n yCountbt Voluhteebs, — A rifle a4i6sia¥iSß place to-day bet ween Hhe JJtofcf.,-, and Waimea, Rifles, .on Ute jp^'ndjqf^he, latter company, ten icsan ; #iid«ii .ranges 200, 400, and 500 y srdi. t9Wnoblect of the above match is* to Select iTconibined team of 12 or 15 to jd^^ng^ a, similar namber from ihe <StyjG«oi panics. 91 ,jTHi? Auckland Herald, in comment■WJ Jf_W n r&» remarks reoently oaada by tho writer of -"The Week" in the Evening Mail npon the lack of en;sttra^eAeht offered by oor merchants {w_[*i^ys(e}apn hop growers, laments .W&t-bta particular industry is not more Meted, aa over £20,000 a-year finds ill wgj^opt pf.the colony for the purehfMb oTthe foreign-grown article. ad?Eadaii Jsbustbt.— Wa have been ifxown *'by Mr Moutray a number of iroa gates made by bim to the order of Sir Bray, the contractor, for the railW*?d crossings that occur between &feltt| and Stoke. They are 12 feet jW-f appear to be of gr^t CtHogih ma excellent workmanship, Md Dpsscfs this farther advantage, t&K tbey have been turned out of a So^as-PfPPjNfCtpry at a legs price, than would have to be paid for imported rirt§atis"fof si similar description. Mr Motfttiirir haa an order for forty 6f iheße -f H-sffr 3&s >'Vkl M Very, satisfactory to Jtoi lhat, this i por tion of our railway W^reiriedta can be locally supplied; t^W'^^SOJ^^ Cu?.— The fint _ftejCTjsrio advertised to leave Mel4feirn»^ai»f tba great race ie the Tarsrea, whicb is to sail on the 12*fh *»•* .biM*i°Bfr.Y49&\*n& exchanges, however, we see that tbe Wonga Wonga ' iroXfSCied to arrive there from Sydney SWe^oeidii' oexr, and we therefore liana of the first newa of. -th® great .rawing- e^ent in which so • many are 'Itflbeasted pecuniarily or otherwise.