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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 32, 3 February 1876, Page 2

"We understand thafc Alexander Skeyne, Esq., the Surveyor- General of Victoria, is at present on a visit to Nelson. The inventor of Eteveneaux's corn eradicator notifies that he is now afc fche Nelson Hotel, where he may be consulted for a few days, Attention* is directed to an advertisement stating thafc there will be no service in St. Joseph's Church, Wakefield, on Sunday nexfc. The English and Continental Photographic Atelier, next door to the Masonic Hall was opened on Tuesdfiy last, and the proprietors are now prepared to take photographs of every description. We are glad to learn that there is afc last a' likelihood of Nelson being provided with a new wharf, a plan of Mr' Akersten's having been approved of by the Provincial G-overnment. The construction of a stone wall will be shortly commenced. A meeting of the members of the Nelson Cricket Club was held last; riighfc, when it was decided to send a team to plfty the return matches at Wellington and Marlborough about the end of this, or the beginning of next month. As the funds of the Club are at a low ebb, it was proposed and agreed to get up a soiree of a similar character 'to those which have been successfully held in other provinces for a similar purpose,

• Thej G. ' li. Argus says : — " It is rumored that Sir J, L. C. Richardson, the Speaker of the Upper House, will not offer himself again for .that office, preferring to take a more active part iii the debates. In that event, probably Colonel Richmond^, . Ojl| the present , Chairman of Committees in that branch of the Legislature, would be elected." There was a large attendance of the members of the Normanby Lodge of Good Te-piplars last night to welcome, and hear an address from*^Brother Hastings, who is on his way back %to America after a visit to New Zealand and Australia. He gave an interesting ' account of his* tour through New South Wales, Queensland, Ths-' ; mania, and South Australia, and showed... that Good Templary was making great progress in all these colonies. The meeting was also addressed by the Rev W. Sheriffs of Blenheim. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr ;Hasting|' • on the motion of Brother Smith. The following officers were then installed ; — W.C.T; Bro W. T, Sherwood; W.Y.T. Bro T. Shone; "W.S., W. H. Davidson (re-elected); W.F.5., : Bro G. H. Shef- •' wood (re-elected); W.T., ~W. J. Harper (re-elected); "W.C , Sister K. 'Sherwood * (re-elected) j W.M., Bro 1. Hayhoe; W.1.G., Bro A. Leech; W.0.G., Bro W. Gibson; W.R.H.S., Sister A. B.* Betts; , W.L.H.S., Sister A. Gibson; W.A.S;, Sister J. Page; "W.D.M., Bro A. Shone; P7W.C.T., Brq7A. Dolamoro. We would call attention to a notice published by Mr Burford offering a reward of £5 for the discovery of some miscreant who has maliciously destroyed . a number of his hop plants by de-* 7 1 iberately cutting them through near the ground. We trust that the reward offered will have the desired effect, and; 1 shall have very great pleasure in, recording that the perpetrator, has. been. H brought to justice and* received its • severe a "penalty as his cowardly offende*' r deserves. .-■■■•■*_ ' . 7 A contemporary states that a quiet picnic in the neighborhood of Palmerston, in the North Island, recently had a very satisfactory termination. After lunch^ the six couples who formed the party sauntered in different directions,: and in about an hour afterwards, wlieii they returned to their rendezvous, it became kuown thafc in that eventful period no less than six engagements to marry had been entered into. • . As : a natural consequence, all the marriageable ladies in tbe~ district are* suffering from pronounced attacks of picnic op. the brain, . ;-•*..;..;! A circumstance occurred during the 7 recent intercolonial cricket match between Victoria and New South Wales which has given rise to some little tin"? pleasantness. A Sydney speculator and bookmaker had money on the match to the tune of some five or, .six hundred pounds, principally hundreds to five that the Sydney men would not win .'in one innings. When ifc came unpleasantly near the end within three or four runs, he sent out a message- to the Sydney captain acquainting him of the stage of affairs, and suggesting that the Victorians should be allowed ..to., make a few more runs, and thus, save; the one innings, but the proposition was unanimously repudiated with scorn, and the bookmaker has been brought to book by the Cricket Association of. New South Wales, and is likely to lieair more of the affair than he bargained for or expected. Tuere can be no mistake about the politics of Mr Alfred Cox, the member for Waipe. In its report of the proceedings at the nomination, the Waikato Times says.* — Not the worst of the good things said by Mr Cox yesterday was a parting shot after Sir George Grey. He had just one thing more to say. He quite agreed withTMr Ronh.e that Sir Georgo was an exceedingly useful man in the Opposition, and if returned he should so vote as always (6 keep him there. r Oamaru is determined to have salt water baths. At a joint meeting, of the. - Municipal Council and the citizens it was. decided to call for tenders for the ereotion of baths, to cost about £10007 It is proposed tbat they shall be nnder the control of the Corporation. We make the following extract from the Hawke's Bay Herald's Auckland correspondent. Ho writes :■ — " Io a. former letter I intended to state that Mr Luckie's withdrawal from the : representation of Nelson had considerably gratified Sir George Grey's adherents. Indeed it was owned that Mr Luckie was one of Sir George Grey's most dangerous opponents." * This must have been a great surprise, even to Mr Luckie himself. A Colorado saloon-keeper said of a rough crowd: "I couldn't, get their whisky strong enough for them, so after trying every way, I at iast made a mixture of poison-oak and butternut. That fetched them. I call it the sheepherder's delight, and it was a popular drink. The first Pike I tried it on yelled witb delight; the next one took two drinks and turned a double somersault in the road before the housf. A pedlar catre along, and after he.took several drinks of my sheep-herder's* delight, he went off and stole his own pack aod hid it in the woods."

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