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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 184, 26 July 1875, Page 2

Once again are we called upon, and gladly do we respond to tha invitation, to congratulate the masters and pupils of the Nelson College upon the success that Jias attended the candidates from that institution who presented themselves for examination for the New Zealand University scholarships. No less than five of those who competed have beta successful, aud Mr Simmons and Mr Mackay may well pride themselves upon this additional testimony to their teaching powers. It is gratifying to observe that out of the five successful candidates three, namely, Bullard, Harkaess, and Thompson, secured their College education by means of the Provincial scholarships. Tiie Eaicir op Oolu, whose performances are spoken of in the highest terms by the leading journals both in England and Australia, will appear before the Nelson public to-morrow evening. As he proceeds North the following day, we would recommend all who can do so to take the opportunity of seeing him. A correspondent of the Auckland Herald telegraphs from Wellington: Mr Stafford's emphatic declaration of his intention to support the present Ministry through thick and thin, and his great admiration for them, did not much surprise the House, as it has been generally understood to-day that either during or at the end of the session he will take the Premiership, Dr Eeatherston being dismissed from the AgentGeneralship, and Sir J. Vogel appointed instead. The Goulburn Advertiser (N.S.W.) writes; — " We have read of showers of manna, Bbowera of frogs, and showers of fish, but we scarcely expected to [ hear of the laal-named in our ricinity. Yet, says our informant, the residents at Reedy Lake awoke one morning to nod their farms strewed with fiah as thickly as the quails round the tents of the Israelites in the wilderness, that I we read of in old lore. We don't know j whether fried fiah was generally used for breakfast that morning by the Reedy Lnkers. They w-re sea-fish, too, about the size of sardinee— a greater treat to dwellers on a lake side." Mr Hollowoy gave s lecfture on New Z-almi in front of the Killin worth Gaaile, Wotton, near Oxford, to a large assembluge of laborers and thair wives, on the 29th April. The abstract of 'ho letter as reported in the Laborer's Union Chronicle, briaths with statistics, and is crammed with such information respecting the colony as could not fail to be instructive and interesting to his audience. From the report we should judge Otago to be Mr Hollo way 'a favorite province.