The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 276, 21 November 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1874.

•*NWf-oa«n-i_M_H_^__iM-M------_w_-_a_^ a __i WaMa^ 1 Hope Sunday School. — A sermon in connection with the anniversary of thia school will be preached by the Rev. D. Dolamore to-morrow morning. On Tuesday there will be a tea and public meeting. Baptist Churoh.— A lecture will be delivered in this charch to-morrow evening, by the Rev. D. Dolamore, on ! ",Tho day of salvation." Fibe Brigade. —At a meeting of the brigade, held last night, Mr. Smallbone was unanimously elected secretary. Mr. C. Bird was elected foreman of the fire company. The Culifornian Minstrels appear to continue to be popular in Nelson, another good house greeting them Inst night, when tbe burlesque on II Trovatore was acted with great success. They appear for the last (ime to-night, 'and as the programme is an inviting! one, a good audience will probably be assembled. • _ / The Wonga Wonga. with the San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland at; five; o'clock this morning, and the Albion with the Suez until at the Bluff at tep.c^clock.; ■ Th$ t lat»er v is as usual considerably fn. advance of ber time, not being doe at the Bluff until Tuesday next. The telegraphic intelligence will be found elsewhere. Wb have received the first number of the A- Southern Oross, -a religious journal published in Melbourne. It is edited by the Rev. Dr. Catreroo, and will contain contributions from "members and rniaistern of all evangelical denominations." It is printed in excellent type, oo good paper, and altogether is a vt|ry well got up newspaper. iEgles writes in the Australasian i —I am not sure that the roughness of buah life does not sometimes stifle the instincts of humanity, not of necessity, but occasionally. In illustration of this, a gentleman who was on a 500---mile journey in Queensland met a man travelling with his wife and child. The wayfarers ate their mid- day meal together, and the lady became communicative. Her little one was aick, and she was full of bitterness. She said that at the place she bad stayed the night before no milk was obtainable. Jn the morning tea was supplied, but again no milk. At length she appealed lo tbe household drudge, ex plained how ill her infant wag, and how urgeut was the need for a little milk. Still none was forthcoming. "But" pleaded the anxious mother, "I heard the cows lowing in Ihe stockyard this morning, ond the calves answering. Surely there must be some milk ? " "Of course," said the girl, " there is some miik, but it has to be kept for the lambs dropped by tbe ewes in tho travelling flocks and left behind. We bring them up by hand, so of course there is no milk to spare for anything else." Nor was there any. The Neio Zealand Herald furnishes the following description of the handsome tea-service and claret jugs presen »ed to G. M. O'Rorke, Esq , from his Onehuoga constitutenls, as a mark of personal esteem. Tbe service &c, is of solid silver, tbe various pieces being richly ornamented after Etruscan and Egyptian patterns, withchasedand engraved figures. The groups represented consist of warriors in chariots and on foot, returning from a victorious campaign, bearing trophies of war with them. The claret jugs bear the following inscription, which is tastefully nngiraved :-— " Presented to George Maurice O'Rorke, Esq., member of the General Assembly and Provincial Council, from bis Onehunga constituents asa mark of their esteem." Ex-Judge Claypool and ex-Judge Bright practise in tbe Supreme Court in Indiaoapoli?. They were pitted the other day in a case which warmed them up to their best work. In the middle of Claypool's summing up, Bright said, " That's a lie !" "If anjbody but a felon had said that," retorted Claypool, " I would have knocked him down." Then there was a row. The ex-judges made for each other, but their fightiog was so awkward tbat neither hi V the other, although two lawyers who tried to part them got bruised faces. The presiding Jud«e I declared Bright to have been the J accuser, aad fined him 250 dols.