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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 264, 5 October 1875, Page 2

The Key. J. Beckenham will lecture at the SpriagGrc re school-room, this evening, on "Bush Life in New South Wales." The chair will be (Taken by the Rev. W. Keall. A meeting of those interested in forming a Joint-Stock Company for the purchase of Messrs, "Webley Brothers' cloth factory, will be held at the Masonic Hotel this evening at half-past seven. v; The entertainment in connection with All Saints' Church was given at the Masonic Hall last night, and passed off very successfully, although the audience was not ao large as we should have liked to see. After an exceedingly pretty. duett on the piano, the Spelling Bee was held,; and created' a deal of amusement. , ; Sixteen took part in it, eight ladies being ranged on one side of the stage, And a like number of gentleman on the other. Two prizes were offered, one to the competitor who held out the longest, and the other to the most successful on the ' other' side. The following were some of the words which thinned the rankfc: — " Aeronaut," " violoncello,'? " schismatic," « lovable," "catarrh," ".dishevel," "dithyramb," " scathless," " phiz." At the. end of about three quarters of an hour, Mr Von Turizelmann was declared the winner of the first, arid Mrs Suter of the second prize. Then followed a number of musical selections both vocal and instrumental, and a very pleasant eveningwas brought, to a close by singing the national anthem. A vert serious acident occurred at Quail "Valley on Sunday afternoon to a little girl named Bullard, who was staying with her grandmother and uncle named Currin. It appears that the old lady went into the bedroom for somethings and in opening the door knocked down a loaded gun that was standing behind it, which fell through the doorway with the muzzle towards the fire place in the next room, before which the girl was standing. In falling, the gun went off, and the charge entered the poor girl's back, she being in a stooping position at the time, and. lodged under the shoulder blade; inflicting a horrible wound. Dr Oldham was at once sent for, and was soon in attendance, but he holds out very slight hopes of the poor sufferer's recovery. The grandmother, who is a very old woman, has, as may be imagine-i, sustained a severe shock by this sad accident. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes : — •• Our very latost novelty in the way of female luxury is eminently characteristic. It is now She fashion for ladies, like snails, to travel about with their own bouses — not exactly on their bicka/but with' their trunks. Several grandes dames de par le mode have had constructed bathing, m; chine?, or rather bathing-cabius, which can be token to pieces and put together in a few minutes. They can be packed up in a box like a telescopeambrella or a camp stool. These faatiJioHa females have had ' their houses built of varnished wood, and their monograms engraved on. the streetdoor. The inside is lined with white leather or welded damask, and provided not only with every imaginative toilet luxury, bat also with a small atool. I have seen some bathing habiliments, so elaborately adorned with braid aa to resemble the costumes of the young ladies who disport themselves in burlesque. Now, if there is oae place pore than another where coquetry is unnecessary, it is in the waser.. It is true the French baiyneuses seldom allow the sea to come up higher than their knees, and that they often have to walk half-a-milo from their cabin into the water. It is to be hoped that that their new temporary cabins will not fall to pieces at the first^ gust of wind. If this cataatrophe were to happen, the ladies woald have to adopt the plan I oace saw pursued, at a small

jateriß^pl^e io,;%>i|, wgre^^ a^bne4|idn|;poffjifeffo^ii» baifffog c«f|| !& es S^ M$ e « *^ lk 9 i#ali»afli B'ooraer.' . "^ " s Writing apon Sir George Grey's 6uegestion that wa should elect oar own Governors in Ihe colony, and not ioiP|?ph|a», the OoroGfhdel, il/§i/^%sr ; ! -^•-iWeexpeefc ilia4for4omQ/ltim92to:t I come at least, we shall have to import °, ul L& overao «" 8 » a » we do our best brands of pickles and sauce?. We could do ' (hens very well, but we do not feel inclined. We caa make just aa "good*picfele»;;.oairsely;eß.,_but wo .-.can't v? •••^^?^?, 1 ?^ a^^,%JM.!9Pk-aV n f c © aY the 'imported • I "aViidJe\ ::v So^ we ; pap make .^ Gnvernor, but lie, a^^OL-gl: by,; the erace of God, nor a Lord^ Viscount Baron of the most- coble order of St. Jupiter and the constellation of the; Southern Gross. Don't let us say we ', ' dMpis%iiil|Bj T«s|6tt ivfd know warlike :- r JfWaHoag us woul^noe b# a 0I ;^^M!? ?.good income, if he could? Imported Governors are likaly to outlive our day."•.' < ■•.'