The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 104, 1 May 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875.

University and Bar Dinner.— The members of Universities and the Bar intend baying a social dinner on Wednesday next at the Masonic Hotel. The dinner was originally fixed for Thursday, but as Judge Gillies, who is to preside, will most likely be leaving on that day for Wellington, the day has been altered. Masonic Hall. — Addresses will be delivered in this Hall to-morrow afternoon and evening by Mr Frank Cavenagh, who has the reputatioa of being a clever and a popular preacher. Supreme Court. — The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court commence on Monday morning, at 10 o'clock. Good Templars' Entertainment. —The Provincial Hall was scarcely large enough for the crowd that assembled in it last night, when an entertainment was given by the Good Templars of Nelson in aid of the sufferers by the recent accidents. The programme, which was both liberal and varied, was well carried out, and it is difficult to say to which was accorded the heartiest applause, tbe music, the singing, or the recitations, all of which were well done. The proceeds should make a. handsome addition to the fund to which they are to be devoted The Ross folks don't like rates. At the last meeting of the Road Board there, the Clerk, in answer to the Chairman said — "He attended regularly at the office, but nobody called to pay money I" Every one has heard of the divining rod for finding underground water. It isn't every one wbo can use this useful implement. At a pinch a bueh man can find water another way. A party lately travelling from Port Lincoln towards Fowler's Bay, in search of pastoral country, ran ehort of water. They could find none, although the proximity of blacks proved tbat there must be some near. The leader of the party, as matters were becoming critical, determined to run in a blackfellow, and frighten him into pointing out some of the native wells which were probably nigh. The capture was made, but tbe prisoner could not be induced, by prayer or menace, to disclose where water was. After 24 hours had elapsed, and nothing moved tbe captive, a bright thought struck the lender of the opposition. He showed the savage some kindness, and fed him to repletion with salt — very salt — junk. The sun was blazing in the heaveuß, but tbe native was kept in carefu), but shadeless custody until the unusual food had brought him to a condition of irresistible thirst. They turned that man loose, and followed the bee-line he made, and within half-an-hour were encamped beside abundant water.