The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 282, 28 November 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1874.

Cattle Fair. — The Richmond Quarterly Fair will be held on Wednesday next. Bank Holiday. — Our knowledge of St. Andrew is but limited, but he appears to be ti:e patron saint of the employees in the various Banks, and has iBSueJ his mandate that Monday next is to be observed as a holiday by his devotees. His wishes., are to he complied with. Cricket.— A match between the Nelson an J Motutka Clubs will bepl<yed at Motueka on Mondny. The steamer Lady Barkly will co»vey the town team and as many sb are deairo'is of witne sing the game to the scene of action, 1 aving the wharf Bt 7 a.m, anl Motueka on the return trip at 7p m. The match is likely to be a well-contested one. The names of the Nelson eleven are— Wix, Cross, Atkinson, Ba-nett, HoK Holmw^od, Spec J, Jennings, Biundell, Halliaay, and Shaw Horticultural Snow. — Two errors occurred in our report of the judges awards yesterday. For shrubby Ciiceolari»9 Mr Bolton, and not Mr W. Hale, took the prize, and for Cactus the second prize was awarded to Mr Gully. Concert.— A concert in aid of the fund for pu' chasing an oman for St. Peter's Church, Wakapuaka, is to be given at the Provincial Hall ou Wednf sday, the 10th instant. The programme is well selected, and the performers will include several of the members of the Harmonic Society and others who have promised their assistance. About one-third of our contemporary's report of the Horticultural Show id rtevoted to a detailed account of the fearful difficulties he had to surmount in obtaining the prize list. Fince we are in some manner implicated we may as well state the facts :— Early in the afternuon the representative ot the Mail, which was the firs 5 paper to be published after the Show, waited upon the Secretary, and asked for the prize Jist, and in reply was told that at that time it had not been lairly copied but that he should receive it in the evening. Poring the evening the representative of the Colonist alto asked Mr Adams for it. but as having already promised it to the Mail he did not fed at liberty to part with it. And this constitutes our contemporary's grievance. l f he really was so anxious to obtain the list, he could easily have done so by asking us for it, instead of which he preferred to go home and nurse his wrath, which, this morninir, found vent in an exceedingly ill-tempered paragraph. The Colonist appears to be quick in detecting tbe ab.'c cc of courtesy in others, but is blind to ics own faults in the same direction. To refer toa gentleman of Mr. Htnry Adams' standing in tbe place as " the person who acted a* Secretary," is more thsn discourteous —it is impertinent.