The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 7, 8 January 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1876.

It. will, be seen by pur telegrams today, that; Mr 'Bryce and Sip Julius Yogel have beep returned fb,r Wanganui. -'■" " . , ,-. ■ The j next monthly sitting of the District Court -in civil jurisdiction will ► be held on Monday morning at eleven o'clock. ..• • }\- , > ■. •- ■ •-.; ' : . t ' ; . ., - ■ / . The Nelson team started this morning for "Wakefield, where they are to play 'a cricket matoh with, the local club, but as two or three of their best men were prevented at the last moment frojn joining them, it is doubtful •whether they: will have a;' very,. good' account.. to render of themselves on their return. . -; : A sermon Jwiir be preached in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow, evening ! by the Eev. J. Crump, ; ' „; .;. . Mr Edward Lewis will preach in the old Baptist Church, Spring "Grove, to-morrow evening. ' ; Mr Shoet is announced to preach at the Temperance Hpll to-morrow evening, when young people are more especially invited to attend. ,■;>••, : A general meeting ■of the sub?, scribers to the Nelson Aid Society will be held ,ab the Masonic Hall pn Monday evening. . .:.'.''.■!'.:'.'.' ; Tra-Velling between .the Baton, a small settled district about -thirty miles \ from Nelsorj, and town dpesinoi; appear to be ,a pleasant or a very pate underjr j taking. Ah up country correspondent writes as fallows : — I have - travelled over the pack track to the Baton for many years, but never saw it r in such a state as at present. No description can give an idea of it. Bogs that were Dogs previously some three or; four feet deep are now covered over /with a layer of soft clay from a foot to eighteen, inches thick, arid in addition: to this there are several slips across the road, which can enly be got over ;by going at them at . a ' hand gallop, and, Jeaping them. A sure-footed horse may land you safely en the other side, if not you roll down a ravine some forty or fifty feet dee.p. To repair th& damage occasioned by floods and slips, would take some £15 or £20 and surely this small expenditure is not too , much to ask for. v We have to acknowledge the receipt from the publishers at Dunedin of the first number of "The New' Zealand Magazine, a quarterly journal of general literature." We have not yet had time to do more than glance over it, and therefore can say little : more re- . garding.it than that it contains articles on^various Bubjects'by some of the best writers in the colony*- It is well got up, and clearlyprinted, and if kept up inthe same, style should. ensure a large circulation in New Zealand, where there, is a gpod opening for such a periodical. v ¥; : ; ' ; - ; .j ; A PRi!WMiN4.BT i .mee,ting^, of those juter§st|cl io, {woaing % jpbb at

the x Port was, held at the I?ort JFire Brigade Efall last eveninig. ■> #here>,waßfe >. fai^atten^ance^Mr J^anird itMi£ 'chair. > The Ghairma^ havmg stately the x>bject of . the^ meeting, yyiz.j the^ formation of a Boat tJlu]o\at|the fcoift; it was proposed by jVIr £«>oonded •> by Mr H. Freeman, and carried nem. coy., " That in the opinion of this meeting it is advisable to start a Boat . Club at the Port." It was also agreed ,that the number of members^be unlimited, that the entrance fee be" one guinea, and the annual subscription one guinea, payable half-yearly- in advance. About twenty names were handed in as willing to join the Club as active members, and circulars will be sent to residents' at the Port, inviting them to become members. ;An in-V fluential Committee was : formed to/ carry out the object of the meeting. The name of the* Club will be the Nelson Port Boating Club. ' A f meeting will be held at the same .place and hour on Friday evening next, and as the H resolutions passed last' night are conditional, intending members and those interested are requested to (attend. A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings.