The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 67, 19 March 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875.

Naval Brigade. — A meeting of tbe members of this brigade, will be held at the Custom House Hotel this evening, for the election of oflicers, and tbe transaction of other business. Nelson Artillery. — The members of this Company will parade at 2 p.m to-morrow, for prize firing with the Armstrong gun. The target will be erected in the harbor, near the stranded hulk. Immigration. — Those who were alaraie i lest the number of immigrants •orwarded to Nelson was more than rqual to the demand for labor will be to learn that the depot is. now empty, ullthe late arrivals having found employment. Cabmen and Carters.-— A cricket match between the Nelson carters and cabmen, was played last Saturday, when the former were victorious. The 1 two elevens Bat down to an excellent

dinner at ..the, lEjxohatige. Hotel last night, when a very pleasant evening was spent, and arrangements were made for a return match. '■ Registration.— We wonld remind our readers that during this month alone can they register their claims to be placed on the electoral roll for the ensuing year, in the course of which there will be a general election for the House of Representatives. The fact ihat there may be a redistribution of the representation should induce all who are entitled to vote,' or in whose qualification any change has taken place since the formation of the last roll, to send in their claims at once. The nece39ary forms may be obtained at the office of this paper. A Characteristic Present. — Mr H. E. Baker, of the Union Bank of Australia, who has recently been removed from Lyttelton to Wellington, is evidently fond of his " baccy." The Press says that on his departure he "was presented with a handsome meerschaum pipe, cigar case, and silver match box, as a token of the appreciation in which he was held by those with whom he had come in contact during his stay in Lyttellon." What next in the testimonial line ? It is a rare thing for or\e bowler to succeed in taking the whole of the wickets in an innings, but we notice in the West Coast papers that this feat was recently ncoomplished in a mutch between the Greymouth and Hokiiika clubs by Mr Arthur Morse, late of Nelson, who on the occasion in question wjis one of the Hokitika eleven. .The destruction of a large quantity of com by fire, is thus reported in the Lyttelton Times, of a recent date : — On Friday evening, at about 5 o'clock, a fire broke out on the larm of Mr Higbt, near the Racecourse Hill, destroying about 1000 bushels of grnin, nnd a combine and elevator belonging to Mr J. Franks, of West Melton. The machine was Bet between the stacks, and them were 150 bushels threshed out, when it was noticed that the top of one of the stacks nearest the engine was on fire, and endeavours were made to extinguish it. The man employed as baudcutter jumped from the combine to the stack, and tried to check the fast spreading flames, but it was aoon found that his efforts were unavailing. Mr Franks and hta men, as with one accord, then mmc for the engine, hitched the only horse in, and with oue bold effort completed the rescue. The/ then made for the combine. Unfortunately, as they were turning it, the wheels became locked, the delay enabled the fire to lake hold, and the combine was destroyed. The Loch Lomond, clipper ship, from Glasgow, whi^h arrived in .Melbourne on the 14 ih ult, reports that on the 4lli January, in latitude.2B.2s S., longitude 29.50 W., ,sbe came across the hull of the iron ship Foundling of Liverpool; on fire. The latter wos completely dismasted and burned out, with the exception of her dead weight, and had evidently been abandoned. The hull was complete, and wbb painted greeD, and her name was also painted in gilt letters on the stem quite perfect. She appeared to be about 1100 or 1200 tons. Smoke was issuing from tbe fore part of the ship, which appeared to be \red hot. On referring to an old Mitchell's Maritime Registry, it was ascertained that the Foundling left Liverpool for Bombay on the 19ih September last, and was spoken on the 6th October. It is a matter for surprise what she could have been doing between thoae dates. She was directly on the track -of ships both homeward aud mrtWard bound, but the captain regretted that he could do nothing which would tend to lessen the danger /of ships running her down. at night. The Bullarat btar tells the following amusing story of how n young lady and her "ma" concocted that the young lady's intended should pay a bill incurred by her for i'6o. This 19 how i)xs~iStar states the case:— -A certain /young lady, who considers herself in the cream of society, was betrched to. a well-known merchant. Before the ceremony her "ma" persua.ied her to pay a visit to the fashionable Bourkestreet drapers, where an eliborate trousseau was purchased to the extent of £60 Injunctions were given that the bill should te sent iv lo the expectant spouse, but not until a certain date, a few days after the ceremony, the approach of which was not ot course mentioned. By an accident the bill was sent out at the end of tbe month in the usual course, and the bridegroom-expectant, of course, at once called to explain to tbe drapery firm, that being still a baichelor he could not possibly have incurred a heavy liability for female frippery. The state of the case was represented' to him, the result being thut he declined to fulfil his matrimonial engagement, uud to pay tbe bill. The lady is therefore left without her sweetheart, and with a trousseau on band for tbe next emergency of a similar character, for which " pu '' will probably have to pay. The correspondents of the Post, supply the following telegrams. FronJ Duiedin: — The home agent advises that owing to the Cospatrick catastrophe, he had despatched the Timaru 144 short of the guaranteed number of immigrants. Dr Feathersion decided that passages must be charged against the province, on accouut of tbe salmon ova, whereupon the owners of the Timaru voluntarily wiped off £300 in the. form of a subscription towards the cost of procuring the ova. The Timaru left Glaßgow on December 31st, but was detained in the North Channel ,

by V contrary weather. — A peculiar decision* bas been given by Mr Parker, RM. at Oamaru. Four men were charged with gambling on the raco ctourse. Mr Parker dismissed them, because they had a licence from the local turf club. — From Auckland :— A shocking mice accident has occurred at the Thames. Robert Fox, working in tly> Queen of Beauty mine, was shovelling some dirt, when the side wall gave way, falling on him. He was immediately rescued and brought to the surface, and then taken to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the left arm near tbe shoulder, and tbe left leg close under the knee, both being broken in three places. He is in a very precarious stale. The contractors a short time previously were warned of the danger of a slip. Manager Wilson having sounded the wall cautioned them, but it was deemed " all right," and work proceeded, with the result narrated. — Father Simpson, Catholic priest, while celebrating mass yesterday morning, fainted, owing to exhaustion from Lent fasting. The event caused a sensation and alarm in church, but the priest soon recoved when he was carried into the air."