The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAT 3, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 105, 3 May 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAT 3, 1875.

Eefoem League. — A special meeting of the League will be held this evening. Baker's Hibbrnicon. — A beautiful pauorama of Irish scenery, which has attracted crowded audiences in the other towns of the colony, will be exhibited at the Odd-Fellows' Hall tonight. It is accompanied by singing and dancing, the 'whole forming such an entertainment as must be thoroughly eiijoyed by all who witness it. Bishops' School.-— Mr W. H. Rowe, the newly appointed second master of the Bishop's School, arrived by the Phoebe yesterday. Mr Rowe is a B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Queen's Gold Medallißt of London University. He will enter upon bis duties at once. Voluntkerh. — The Gazette of Thursday laßt contains the following appointments :— Burton West to be second lieutenant in the Nelson Artillery; Leonard Boor to be honorary assistant surgeon in the City Rifles; end Harry Best to captain of the City Rifle Volunteer Cadets. The Railtvay.— The engine, which has been put together by Mr Moutray, was placed on the line to-day, and took a run up Toi-toi Valley. Everything, we understand, worked most Bmootbly. The locomotive will now be regularly employed in taking rails and sleepers along the line. Football.— lt will be seen by advertisement that the annual general meeting of (he Nelson Football Club will take place on Wednesday evening next at the Masonic Hotel. We understand that the Club has received a challenge from Taranaki, and hope to be able to send a team over there early this season. The Wellington players have for some time owed Nelson a call; we hope to see them on our ground long before the season is over. The Nelson Club has lost several good players during the last year, and none have as yet been found to supply their places. Nelson must contrive somehow to keep up her old prestige in football. Could not the country men manage to get up a club who could meet at Wakefield or some other central place? They send a cricket team that generally succeeds in beating the Nelsonians, and last year a team of " country bumpkins " made a good stand against the town men. Nelson would pick a much stronger interprovincial football team if the City Club could be reinforced by members of a second club in the country. We trust that foothall will be supported as heartily this year as ever, and hope that the suggestion thrown out as to the formation of a country club may soon be taken up. The following stakes in connection with the late Canterbury races have been paid : — Delamain, £330 ; Captain Hutchinson, £150 ; Redwood, £188 ; Watt, £400; J.R.Campbell, £145; Stephenson, £105 ; Lunn, £10 ; Hawkins, £25. Total, £1348. The Supreme Court, at ita halfyearly sitting at Timaru, will have a heavy calendar to deal with. Twelve cases are already on the ltsf 9 und several of them are serious, including arson and manslaughter. Crime is increasing, mainly through drunkenness, and the insufficiency of the police.

*A ; ChHstchurch lelegratn of Friday says :— Bishop Redwood waß met this afternoon, en route from the West Coast, at Yaldhurst, eight miles from Christchurch, by n coach and four, containing all "the Catholic clergy of the district, and a large number of the laity on horseback and in traps. They accompanied him into town in procession, with a brass baud. Going round the principal thoroughfares they met at the church a great crowd, including four hundred school children. Addresses were presented by the laity, the Hibernian Society and clergy, to which the Bishop replied in Church ; and, after giving the congregation his blessing, he spoke of the necessity of obtaining clergymen. This necessitated the accumulation of a large fund, and it- was his intention during his progress through the diocese to make special collections for the object. The beoediction was then pronounced. It is gratifying to notice the action of the hoo. the Minister of Justice in the matter of a central penal establishment for the colony — an establishment long urgently wanted alike in the interests of justice, morality, and humanity. Mr Bowen has had Resolution Island reserved as a site for the proposed centrol prison. The Times says : — lt is perfectly isolated, and offers greater advantages for the profitable employment of the labor of convicts than perhaps any other place in the colony^ Granite of the finest quality abounds, and the men could be employed dressing it, and building their own prison. Escape would be out of the question. There is a good harbor in the island, where stores might be landed. Mr Lemon is going down by the Luna to examine how the island could best be connected by telegraph with the nearest etation at Riverton, and another gentleman accompanies him to make an accurate survey of it. A considerable sum of money will be required to erect the necessary buildings, and provide guards aod other officinls. We trust there will bo no hesitation on the part of the Assembly to provide the requisite funds.