The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 226, 7 September 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1875.

The City Council calls for tenders for the conveyance of 150 tons of coal from the Para Para mine to the wharf at Nelson. * TJaiTbalf-yearly general meeting of the members of the Naval Brigade will be held at the Port Fire Brigade Hall this evening at half-past seven. A. Quadbule assembly will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening, commencing at eight o'clock. At the Resident Magistrate's Court at Spring Grove yesterday, Henry Brown, charged with using threatening language to John Palmer, was bound over to keep the peace for six months, and, bail not being forthcoming, he was committed to gaol. We are glad to find that the Inland Communication Committee mean to move in the matter of the extension of the railway, a meeting of the members for the purpose of drawing up 9 petition being called for Monday next. Immigrants by the Chile.— The following are the names and callings of the immigrants on board the Chile, now daily expected : — Married Couples — Craine E., farm laborer, and wife;

Christian T., ditto, wife and chad; M'Quinn J., ploughman, and wife ; Oliver J., laborer, wife and three children ; Phipps H. t tailor, and wife ; Webb J., compositor, wife and two children; Cram T M farm laborer, and wife; Cooper A., laborer, wife and four children ; Cassels JBV, miner, wife and child; Kushton J., carpenter, wife and two children. Single Men— Adamsoa J., laborer ; Calmont J. M., navvy ; Hand J., farm laborer; Love J., laborer ; M'Culloch W., farm laborer ; Marshall J., laborer; Watterson A., joiner; Kelly J., laborer; Turner A., farm laborer ; Kinlaws G., farmer ; Hagan T., farm laborer; Lowry G., ditto ; Murphy J., ditto ; Cromn C, ditto; Ryan J., ditto; Barke J., ploughman^ Sullivan J., ditto. Single Women —Grilling E., general servant; White Mary, ditto; White Minnie, ditto. We are informed by the Mayor that he received a telegram this morning from the Colonial Secretary, stating that his Excellency the Governor had appointed the 24th instant for the election of Councillors to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Ore Webb, Harper, and Thompson. This will allow of the election of a fourth Councillor, in the place of Or Wilkins, being held on the same date, thus avoiding the necessity of a second election, which would have existed if the annual election had been held on the usual date. At the Quarterly Licensing Meeting this morning, the following transfers were effected :— City ot Nelson—Exchange Hotel, Caroline Russell to Thomas Askew, : Thomaa Askew to G. Macdonald; Custom House Hotel, Helen Atkinson, as executrix of Emma Atkinson, to John Infield; Thistle Inn, W. Tibbett, to J. Edwards; Bush Tavern, John Mears, to James Tregea. An application was made for a transfer of the license for the Mitre Hotel from Hugh Cottier to G. Barry, but, as it contained an informality, permission was withheld until it had been remedied. A special report regarding the manner in which the Miners' Arms was conducted having been ordered by the chairman at the last meeting, it was brought up by the Inspector of Police to-day, and stated that there had been no fault to find with the house since the last meeting. For the district of Suburban North, a transfer was granted for the Bay View Hotel from Antonio Mikelsen to Henry Collins. The Duvalli troupe performed again last night to a full house. The acting of the sisters, as well as of Mr Hall, in the first piece was remarkably good, and exceedingly amusing. Then followed the Can Can, in which the dancing of the ladies was very pretty and graceful, but we were sorry to notice the introduction of certain vulgarities which might have been dispensed with advantage both to performers and the audience. There will be another entertainment to-night, when the first piece will be " The Child of Nature," and the second " The Village Belle." The dance from the Black Crook and the Can Can will be introduced, and a prize will be given to the best comic singer. The prices of admission will be reduced to one, two, and three shillings. The Provincial Government Gazelle contains the following list of accepted tenders for works in the Buller Valley : — Boatman's Creek Road, Section 1, George Martin and party, £368; Section 2, John Keagan and party, £296; Section 3, John Arnold, £336. —Dray road Blackwater to Ohika, Section 3, Thomae.Thompson, £2397.— Dray road, Christy's to Lyell, No 1, 25 chains, William Wiggin and others, £7 per chain; Section No 2, 30 chains, Henry Meskell and others, £8 per chain; Section No 3, 25 chains, Hugh Batcheldqr and otheis, £9 10s per chain; Section No 4, 25 chains, W. Cameron and others, £8 per chain; Section No 5, 30 chains, J. McGuffie and others, £7 5s per chain; Section No 6, 20 chains, Henry Mcllroy and others, £12 10a per .chain; Section No 7, 25 chains, Henry Callahen and others, £9 10a per chain. An English contemporary thus bears testimony to the labors of Sir Moses Montefiore :— "It is, indeed, already blessed there, as every traveller in the East must well know. In that dark and mean quarter of Jerusalem, between Mount Sion and Moriah— the Haret-el-Yaboud — where the Jews are compelled to live, and where the poor ill-built exterior sometimes though rarely conceal homes of luxury and wealth — there walks no inhabitant who does not know and revere the name of Sir Moses. There is none among those sad men and women who once a week beat their breasts under the stones of what was formerly the Temple of the Glory of Jehovah, but in his prayer for the • friends of Jerusalem ' bethinks him of the English baronet. His title— with its soft Italian suggestion of a " flowery hill," set high above the lowlevels of race and creed jealousies to be a pleasant sign of human brotherhood — ia in the mouths of swarthy boys and girls with the physiognomy of Joseph and Miriam, who know no other single word of ITrankish speech. The Bedouin of the desert has heard about the good old English gentleman, and, repeating his hundred charities in the land, mutters, against his wont when any Jew is mentioned, "Allah shall give him peace." Moslem, Armenian, Greek and Latin, who fight like dogs together iv the " City of Peace," unite to speak respectfully of the venerable benefactor; and when rain was wanting lately, and Jerusalem had famine in her narrow streetß, they joined the people of his own communion iv petitioning Sir Moses Montefiore to send them aid." j