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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 163, 5 July 1875, Page 2

The annual meeting of the parishtoners of 411-Saiats wili be he held at the Bishop's fifchooj-rooffl to-morrow evening, at 7 o'cloc^. The abepnce of "telegraphic news in oar col utnnß' to-day is to be accounted for by the fact of the line being down between Nelsoh and Havelook. The fcotball match between the Wellington and Nolson Clubs took place this afternoon. As play is to be continued until five o'clock in the event of fhe match not being over before that time, we shall not to-day give a ful! repor_ f bt}£ wj(l merely state that after half an four's play the first goal w_>g obiained by'C. Monro for Nelaon. At five pjiputea to four Wellington succeeded in ecorfog # goal, and the game has been proceeding ejnce rather in favor of Wellington,

Br ehe Lady Barkly on Saturday there waa brought over from CoUingwood an unfortunate man, named Augustus Nork, who waa in the last sta^e of di ease. He waa taken at ooce to tbe hcapital, where he died yesterday morning. ErjCHBED. — So the story goes. After a not uneventful passage, a little vessel had reached her port, in a river on 'the banks of which flourished a miniature city,, bearing a clape resemblance to Wanganui; the hands were paid off, the owne? liquidating their claims to tbe j uttermost farthing, and being of a genial disposition, invited them all to ; engage in a game of euchre ere they separated. The game waa played, and then they parted with their owner — «nd their money. — Wanganui Ghroni. ele. Tbe Timaru Herald relates a most extraordinary case of good luck which happened to a Cbristchurch College boy who went home by tha last trip of the St. Osyth. The poor fellow met with some injury to his band at the Cape, aud the wound becoming painful in the tropics, he was dosed with chloral to make him sleep. Lying, then, one night on the grating behind the wheel, he became excited or delirious, stood up, aad stumbled over the tafTrail into the sea. So sound waa his slumber, however, tbat neither a fall of twenty feet nor the sudden immersion woke him, and he floated fifty yards before he knew that anything had happened. By this tira-evan alarm bad been given, the steamer was backed^-a boat lowered, and our College bbySyas presently brought on board agattk none the worse for his ducking. A