The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 275, 20 November 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

Inspection Parade.— -It will ba 6een by advertisement that the monthly iuspection parade of (he City Corps is postponed uutil Monday eveuiog next. The Californian minstrels performed again last night to a well iilhd house. The company will appear again to-night ar.d to-morrow night. This evening there will he an amusing burlesque on II Trovalore, introducing the Anvil Chorus. Spic.al Settlement. —lt will be eeen hy advertisement that the departure of tie pioneers of the special settlement at Knramea has been postponed, on account of tbo weather, until Sunday. Intending settlers are invited to meet the Immigration Officer at the def.6 , to-morrow afternoon, at four o'clock. The members of the Nelson Artillery Company have been supplied with the new Suider Artillery carbine with ewocA hn-onet. iv nlaee. of tbe medium muzzle-loading EnfiehH But >»* „-- fired for with the latter weapons umU the 31st March, 1875,* volunteers who intend competing are allowed go retain the medium, as well as ihe I Snyder, until that date, this is probably the only corps in ihe Middle Island armed with the Snider. Armed and clothed bo well as they are, and with so large a number on the roll, tha attendance of members of this Company on drill nights sbould be both large and Regular. The foHowioer are the wlunera of the Empire £l(JOo,sweop on the Melbourne Cup :•— lst prize, Mr D. Sutherland, Lyell; 2od prize, Hughes and Rowlands, Westport ; 3rd prize, Mr Dickson, traveller for Baoks Brothers. The West Coast sweeps on the Melbourne Cup ore estimated at £3260, and including tbe Derby and Calcutta Sweeps at £4636. % The Otago Guardian says :—-« As "yet the demand for wives is so very great in the colon Y that the chance of a girl's getting a husband here is very little affected for the worse by her being utterly useless," Tbe following specimen of musical criticism is unique. It is only necessary tb the complete enjoyment arising from the perusal of the passage tbat the> ordinary reader be armed with ba attendant pocket dictionary of scientific terms. It is supposed that the pai^e . relates to the music nt tha recent /performance of Faust at Wellington by the English Opeta Company and that (the surmise is somewhat hazardous, but we must not confess to ignorance) the language though learned is intended to be laudatory. "The opera (it is said) "is not of tbe class usually eleemed * popular' music, being characterised by a certain lack of pelodippontinujty, and a tern eicy toquaintand bizat re harmonies remote modulations, and chromatic eJiminiehei seventh, the augmented/ progreaei >ns=, and to a lavish use of tlie i si*tb, apd above all, the chord of tbe ninth, the latter a distinctive feature Mm M. Gounod's compositions." Tho London Times says :—*-'« Tbo proposed annexation to our Empire of a whole archipelago in the South Beas is a fre&h illustration of tbe unique position which Great Britian occupies amoug natione. It is a position hardly intelligible to mony among onr ourselves, and wholly inexplicable, if not incredible, to communities which look upon us with ihe jealousy naturally bestowed upon euoeessfjil rivals, r-ome nationalities seem born to empire, others laboriously achieve it with their blood and their, treasure. England stands in the position, otherwise unkuown to the ancient or the modern world, of having empire in all quarters of the globe literally forced upon her."