The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 81, 5 April 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1875.

Sufz Mail. — The next outgoing Suez mail will be carried from here by the Albion ou Wednesday next, the Tararua being laid up in Melbourne for her annual overhaul. Fire Brigade. — The subscription list in aid of the Brigade fund which was started by the jurymen at the late inquest on the fire at Messrs Everett Brothers is not to be suffered to drop, as we understand that two of the projectors intend to take it round the town to-morrow. Oddfkllctws' Hall —The members of the Artizans' Association will give one of their popular entertainments in the above Hall to-morrow evening, when the nautical drama entitled. "My Poll and my Partner Joe" will be produced. Westport Collieey Reserve.— All persons having claims to occupation on Ibis reserve are requested to send them in to Mr Thomas Mackay on or before the 4th May next. Cricket. — A match between the Wakefield and Motueka clubs will be played at Wakefield to-morrow, commencing at 10 a.m. Embezzlement. — Frederick Engledue Fynmore, late receiver of gold levenue at the Lyell, was this morning charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court with embezzling Government raoney to the amount of £31 ss. Prisoner was remanded for a week in order to allow of witnesses being brought up from the Lyell The graziers in New Zealand, says the G. R. Argus, will do well to send their stock to the West Coast, bb a mob of inferior cattle Bold yesterday in the Arahura yards, realised an average of 55s per hundred, and even at that figure the supply was not equal to the demand. Mr Hugh Jones, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Charlesloo, was, on Saturday last, presented with a purse of 100 soys, as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the Charleston community. Every schoolboy knows the classic tradition of Zeukis, who painted grapes so naturally that the very birds came and pecked at them This old story inspired a French animal painter, of mediocre talent and pressing need, with a scheme far deluding ignorant and gullible American tourists Our painter completes a picture, * The Death of the Poodle." Every morning he takes his dog into his studio, and placing it before the picture, gives the poor beast a sound thrashing. When the dog's master considers his lesson as sufficiently taught, he invites a rich American to his atelier. Our Transatlantic cousiu takes little interest in his host's works but suddenly the dag cornea iD, and, at sight of "The Death of the Poodle/, utters the most lamentable howls, in remembrance of his accustomed punishment. " Oh," cries the American, "how true to nature ! The painting deceives even the dog." And " our cousin " buys the picture at an exorbitant price. — Exchange, ;