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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 321, 2 December 1875, Page 2

: Mr. Frank Weston, the Wizard Oil Prince, will " dig down, and speak a . p|ece " at the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. Small boys will find sqmethiag to interest fchem iv his advertisement. Mr William Hodgson Earnicoat was this morning, on the motion of Mr Fell, admitted as a.barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. He was congratulated by his Honor Mr Justice Gillies upon having passed a very creditable examination. We understand ti«tt Dr. Gijs, who for several years past has been Besident Magistrate at Westport, has been appointed to the Besident Magistrateship of Wanganui. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Thomas Baynon was charged with being an habitual drunkard, he having been thrice convicted of drunkenness within the preceding twelve months. He was sentenced to three days' imprisonment. A meeting of the members of the Band of Hope, at which four or five hundred children were present, was held at the Temperance Hall last night, when an address was delivered to them by Mr B. Criap on " Tem-perance,-truthfulness, and honesty." A sale of work in aid of the funds fofc the Wakefield parsonage is to be held on the 30fch ari&^SJgfc&stanfc. The names of those ladies who have undertaken to receive contributions will be found in the advertisement.. - The "soldiers' hnts^' on Woolwich England, in whidh diptft&ia has prevailed so much as to compel their abandonment, are built of brick, and each one has been found by experiment to be capable of absorbing a pint of water. They are very much bless 3d with snakes in Dallas country, Texas. In one bed-chamber there* sinca last spring, they have killed one rattlesnake of five feet, three tarantulas, and one long fellow simply described as a serpent.