The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 210, 21 August 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1875.

We call the attention of intending exhibitors at the forthcoming Horticultural Show to the list of prizes, which appears in the, fourth page of to-day ' d issue. The City Rifles, repeated their entertainment last night, with one or two new songs. . The performance went off very creditably, but the attendance was small. The Sisters Duvalli in their entertainment, consisting of acting, singing, and dancing, will appear at the OddFellows' Hall on Monday evening. A eramed emblem of the Order of Good Templars was presented to Sister Harriet Woodfield at Collingwood last Saturday, as a token of the affection borne to her by the other members of the lodge. Wk are informed by Mr Burford that the ketch Standard was loading coals at Collingwood when the Lady Barkly left on Thursday last. This will be the first cargo under the Para Pa»a Company's management. John Hears, of the Bush Tavern, was this morning brought before the Magistrate, charged bj his wife with ha /ing threatened to take her life. Complainant, however, pleaded for him, and stated that she was no longer in bodily fear of him, and he was discharged with a caution. A public meeting held at Takaka on Monday last adopted a petition to the House of Representatives setting forth the various resources of the Aorere and Takaka valleys, and praying that a survey might be made, of the district, with a view to opening it up by bridges and roads. Messrs J. Reilly, | J. Lindsay, 8. Robinson, A. M'Donald, i and A Langford were appointed a [ Committee to obtain signatures.

In addressing . his, consfcitueats afc Masterton, on Saturday, night, Mr Andrew made use of a very apt illustration when speaking of provincialism. "Many old settlers," he said, "some of whom might be present fhat evening, had plauted their homesteads in the country, where there was no bush they had made their gardens, and to protect them had planted gums around to afford a shelter. Those gums grew and served their purpose, till at last the time came when they sent their tap roots down and their side roots abroad, till they exhausted the soil, and then they were dug up and cast down. So it had heen with the provinces. At first they were an absolute necessity, but the nme had now come when their purpose had been served. They had grown larger and larger, they had sent their tap roots down and their side roots abroad, and had exhausted the soil, and cutting down was now inevitable. A correspondent of a Ceylon newspaper states that large apes are now regularly employed in the Straits Settlements to pull cocoa nuts. These monkeys are imported from Atchin, in batches, like coolies, and are marched round the plantations by their owners, who let them out on hire. A line is first attached to each of these peculiar laborers, and he is then sent up a tree, where he is said to select fruit with gr^at discrimjiia&jo% and'ffo tkiab the nut round and round until it falls to the ground. Each fall of a nut is hailed by the hairy operator above with a jump and a gratified chuckle. A correspondent residing at Wairarapa, Wellington, in forma as that he recently met in that district one of ibe first. Europeans that ever resided in this Province. The person alluded to is an old whaler and trader, named Heberly. He arrived at Ngamoto in the Bombay, whaler, in 1828 ; waa among the defenders of the Ngamotu pa when it was attacked by Waikato, in 1832, and ascended Mount Egmont with Dr. Bieffenbach, in 1839. Oar informant aays that he found the old man ill, and in very poor circumstances, and that he has now gone to reside with some friends in Marlborough — Taranahi News.