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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 18, 19 January 1876, Page 2

Wanganui papers state that an additional public convenience has been provided at the telegraph office there in the shape of a letter-box for the receipt of messages for transmission which the sender may be unable to present during the ordinary hours, but may deposit in this box, with the assurance that they will be despatched immediately the office opens. Such a convenience would not be out of place here. -<3Phe Westport Times says :— The appointment of E. L. Shaw, Esq, as Warden for the South-west Goldfields has led to discussion whether ife would not be best in the interests of all parties that he should be stationed at Westport instead of Beefton. The residents in the Inangahua district are very anxious to retain the services of Mr Warden Broad, who from his extensive knowledge of mining affairs is preeminently fitted to retain charge of that district. The newly-appointed Warden on the other hand is better qualified to take charge of a district where the average business of the Court is of a more general nature. We understand that efforts are being made to induce an arrangement to this effect, and such action is likely to be very cordially endorsed by the public. The Sheffield Provincial Chapter of the Nottingham Order of Oddfellows have been disestablished for circulating documents m favor of reforming the order, but they have refused to take any notice of the precept cancelling their chapter, and they have decided to take legal opinion on their position. A correspondent writes as follows to as follows to a "Wellington paper : — Pray, Mr Editor, can you inform me whether there is any means of stopping "those infernal bells" of the auctioneers? While I write my head aches from the tintinnabulation, which is anything but musical. I feel quite assured that Mr Edgar Allen Poe did not live in a city in which two mad bellmen carried on their head-splitting avocation, else his composition an " The Bells " would have assumed a different '"m to that which it was. If you can stiv. . rem £_ j j-jjjjjjj. j muat h^ ve suggest no. dieted as ft public these bellmen Cfl t4 to nuisance, and make an u t^ '--*/.t,{ on the Supreme Court for an inju^ " restraining them from sending us to Mount View through their determined efforts to drown the sound of each other's bell.