The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 97, 23 April 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875.

Another Cricket Match. — The -Westlanders appear to be determined to make the most of their holiday, oa they have arranged to play a match with the Wakefield Club on their ground, on Monday. Masonic Hall. — Another entertainment to a crowded audience was given last night by Grace Egerton and Mr Case, whose performances were warmly applauded. This evening there will again be an entire change of programme. To-morrow will be their last appearance, as tbey leave for Auckland on Monday. City Council. — We understand that Mr Robert Levien has sanctioned his nomination as a member of the Council in the place of Mr Hum, who recently sent in his resignation. That Mr Levien will prove a valuable acquisition to the Council we are fully perßuaded, and he can lay claim to the additional recommendation that, as one whose place of business is at the port, he will be in a position to speak with authority upon all matters immediately effecting that important locality. It is not likely that one who is so well fitted for the office will meet with any opposition. The Late Accidents. — The invitation to subscribe towards a fund in aid of the families of those who have been injured or killed by the recent accidents at the excavation on the Port Road has been very liberally responded to, and the list has assumed very respectable proportions and is daily being added to. At the same time, we are compelled to say that there is a want of method about the whole affair which should be remedied at once. Many charitably disposed people have successfully exerted themselves in collecting money, but are at a loss to know what to do with it, as there is no no one formally appointed to receive it. It would be well if the representatives of the newspapers, at the offices of which subscriptions have been received, and one or two others who have interested themselves in the matter, were to meet and appoint a treasurer. A committee will also have to be appointed as soon as the lists are closed to decide how the funds are to be apportioned. We could suggest the names of one or two who "•Appear to us to be well fitted for such an office, but this is a matter that might be better dealt with by a few of the principal subscribers and collectors than in the columns of a newspaper. A meeting of these, however, should be convened without delay. We propose to pay in the amount we have received to one common fund to be dealt with as we have suggested, but as some of the donations were handed to us under the supposition that a collection was being made for the families of Downes and Kelly alone, we should esteem it a favor if those by whom they were subscribed would inform us whether they have any objection to their coutributions being so apportioned. Two residents at Colinton, Mr John Quigley and Miss Anne O'Neil, were married oa Tuesday last, and welcomed home with a salvo which made the welkin ring. A correspondent of the Charleston Herald saya:— '* As guns of sufficient calibre are not procurable in these parts, augers were put in requisition cheerfully, and miners could be seen in all parts surrounding the district, boring deep holes into logs, and grinning gleefully as they charged and tamped their improvised machinery of sound. Some loaded up quicksilver bottles, while other j rammed bumpers of the ' villainous saltpetre* into clefts of trees, and nil such noise producing cavities as their experience suggested. When the cavalcade arrived on ft^g' south side of the creek, such a salute renfc the air as never before disturbed the solitude of these ravines or valleys. Peal after peal reverberated along the winding flats, and boomed and roared until they died gently away along the steep slopes of the adjacent mountains. Many a ecion of royalty has passed the rubicon of matrimony withoujt having received such a royal salut* at the hands of his subjects bb thejminers of Larry's have accorded their/ respected comrade and his no less/ respected bride." <