The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 196, 7 August 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875.

A Chuech parade will be held tomorrow, when a large muster is expected, as the Stoke Bifles will take part in it, in addition to the other City Companies. They will attend divine service at All Saints-Church. The Companies will parade at 10 a.ra., instead of 1030, as formerly. The Nelson City Bines purpose giving one of their usually excellent entertainments, at the Odd-Fellows' Hall, on the evening of Tuesday, the 17th instant. A reference to the programme will give an ideaof the treat that is in store for the large audience that is always to be found assembled on such occasions. Tjie City Council held its ordinary fortnightly raeetiDg last night. — Leave was granted on the usual terms to Messrs i'feeman Brothers to lauuch a barge they have built for the Para Para Company. — An application from the Presbyterian Church Bazaar Committee that the gas used on the occasion of the bazaar should be granted free of cost was refused. — The Inspector of Nuisances stated that he had examined the nuisance complained of by Mr Stevenson, and recommended that the hole should he filled up. This was ordered to be done. — Instructions were given that all gorse hedges in the town should be trimmed. — It was resolved that tenders should be invited for a supply of broken metal to repair the Port road. — Instructions were issued that a 1 ! persons failing to pay their gas accounts within fourteen days of payment being demanded should be proceeded against. After passing a number of accounts, the Council adjourned. Referring to the rage for centenary celebrations, the Melbourne correaponbent of the Dunedin Star asks:— '- Why doesn't somebody get up a millenium fuss about Noab, for instance. He was really a great man; for didn't he preserve the whole race of us?" A Southern contemporary slates: — Beyond a doubt the grand nw.ret of the Chinaman's success in mntkct gardening is the way in which they enrich tbe soil by manuring i* Wo observed at Titikei'd diggings the othsr day a Chinnmiin conveying his baskets full of manure, collected here and there, to his garden plot, from which he supplies theßurroundiog miners with vegetables. Gardenerß and farmers might learu a lee3oa in this respect (com the " ways of John Chinaman." i