The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 44, 17 February 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1876.

A pleasure excursion trip is advertised for to-morrow, when the Charles Edward will leave the harbor at 10 a.m. and proceed to Schroder's Mistake, whence she will accompany tbe Edinburgh and Hibernia to sea for a few miles.

As the Phoebe was being bronght into harbor at an early hour this morning, the men in the pilot boat observed some object floating on the water, and on stopping to ascertain what it was found the body of the unfortunate young woman Annie Freeman, who was drowned yesterday week. The body was terribly mutilated by the fish. Au inquest was being held when we went to press.

• "We remind our readers of the address to be delivered by Lieut. Wilkinson at the Masonic Hall tbis evening. The entertainment in aid ofthe City Cadets fund is to be given at the Oddfellows' Hall to-night. The programme is a very varied one, and promises plenty of amusement.

The well known Lynch troupe of campanologians and vocalists were passengers by the Phoebe, which arrived this morning from Wellington. The Company are now en route, for Auckland, but will return to Nelson in abont four weeks, when they intend giving a short series of their performances. W-E are requested to call attention to the sale of mining plant at Collingwood by Mr Augarde on the 24th instant. The Lady Barkly will leave Nelfson on Tuesday, at 4< p.m., and Collingwood on the return trip ou Friday morniug.

A glass bottle, unbroken, has been found embedded iv a hardwood tree in New South "Wales.

A curiosity in natural history can be witnessed at • the residence of Mr Eisher, Hokitika, in the shape of a cat suckling a young rat in company with hertAvo kittens.

At a meeting of tbe Bishop Patteson Memorial Committee at Sydney, it was stated that there was in bund a sum of £1015, most of wbicb had been placed out at interest till it was known bow it should be applied. The Waikato Times of Saturday states that the murderer Winiata was at the Merangi settlement on Wednesday "last. Ho slept at Wbareapa on Sunday night, and arrived at Kuiti the following evening. He took thePiakoWaikato routo on hia way up. A King's orderly, who brought word to the settlement for telegraphic transmission to the Defence Minister of these facts, says he saw Wiu'ata at Kuiti on the day he left. Winiata was then about to leave for Tahua. The King refused to give him shelter, and the King natives have no sympathy, but say there is no claim upon thera to act as constables ia enforcing the law.