The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5. 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 92, 5 April 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5. 1876.

. ,- discussion .. on. Mr . Thbraas Karley's drainage and reclamation motion will take, place at a meeting of the City Council, to be held this even- 1 jing- ' ■.."■"•'■' (. //THE-'Wairaea toll-gate has beenilet ffor the I 'ensiling year for £400. This," •owing to the decrease of the road traffic, which will be, occasioned by the^raij-' way,. is £225 less than last year. ''.. '.-. THR;Hibernicon Troupe had- another crowded liouse last rii&ht, and appeared to give the fullest satisfaction to their' enthusiastic audience. To-night, when they will appear for the last time, Miss Stonehani-will go through the " m " lightning changes " in & piece specially written for her. It is said by those who . have seen her that . the rapidity : wittL which she makes. these changes is some-.-, thing most surprising. The Company proceed to. Taranaki by ,the Phoebe v to- ; .morrow. . ' \ '..'.' ) The fai'ewell meeting to, the Rev: T. 'Buddie takes place at the "Wesleyan Church, this evening. It will oe seen by our telegrams that ' the unfortunate San [Francisco mail is in trouble again, the Colima having lost her propeller, ofi Akaroa. . She is to proceed to Port Chalmers, where the necessary repairs will be effected, and instructions have been forwarded to " Sidney to send down another boat to .takebeu place. The Wellington papers, we see, are complaining loudly of the present absurd -practice ,of sending the large ocean steamers; down, the; coast with the !San" i Francisco mail. As an instance of the worse than uselessness of such an arrangement, which costs the' colony £15,000 a year,. it , is stated that the Hawea after delivering. thei^elsdn mail arrived at' "Wellington __ twenty-four hours before the Colima, which had the, mail, for that port and the southern .provinces on board. We may- add! th at \ the West Coast-mail, which was brought \ i to Nelson by the Hawea, and.for warded | by the Murray, was , delivered at Westport twenty-four hours before the Wel-lington-people i received -theirs, and ; at < .Grey mouth at the same time that the Colima arrived at Wellington. •■ 'i A^.the ; Eeßident Magistrate's Court this "morning one "drunk* was disposed of, in * the .usual < manner. Two civil cafces;were set down for hearing — 'Healy and Son v. Disher for £5 Bs,

and Jac^h^JarAxfbi^fia^i In' [neither case: didjljie defe%a'ai|t ap\ pear, and|ud|ment sf|i3giv^ii,fOT|plaia- s tiffs fyr^ajCDodlffca claimed an<| coits. fallowing: — Another of those firies, the* reauses of which are so difficult to be occurred on Sunday morning afc Motueka. The house of Mr |"I)o.uglaßi7^en.yrblacksnttith Jl r, was seen t0.., lj3e<6l.fi^4Douf tenio^lo^, and in the \ course of half an hour" was Burnt to the" ground. The only person in the house was'Mr Doiiglas > ~~daughter; -who -hadsome time before carefully removed the embers of the fire to a detached outhouse. This, curiously enough, was only 'building" saved; through the ' >hjear ty exertions of the neighbors; plj'he • fire broke out in the^upp^er. parJ,of ,the house, at th 6 end farthest from the fire--place, and;,w,as/^een"|fro j ni j'the outside » * before " : the" leaifcr susp'iciotf was enter-' ,tajne;d inside of what was gojtag on, <Parfcjof the household furniture ar/d)' effects was happily rescued, but the loss , is still very neavy^the* house' not ibeifag ' jt^sured. The nearest dwelling-house is 400 yards Jhe = forge jis wel\ \ .removed from the house, and was not ; so that there seems strong ground for taKevingibat, this -fire, Jike that, lately at' Wellington, has been .caused by the nibbling of vesta matches' by rats, which were in great numbers there. Ttfere certainly se&ns good? ireason^for paying increased attention to - what may now be looked upon as a much more frequent cause of fire than I has generally, been supposed. \ Eats:ar&,; now;known to eat wax • vestas* and to find no difficulty in making 'their way through' iilieir', pasteboard cases,' and .the. remedy wilt therefore be either to keep; the matches in tin cases, or to give up . their use altogether in favor of some • ' thing less dangerous*. • '' '„'.,' .-, The -foliowin^is a list ..of the ' iipmi- , grants now on their way to Nelson in;; the Pern Grlen: — Married Couples — . 0., laborer, wife and 1 child ; King E., gardeneiv and wife ;.ißy ail T.-i wife and 3 children ; Searle ; ,Yy., painter, wife and 4 children; Sherman J., farm kborer; and; wife ; slTrjend. - T., farm laborer, wife and 4 children. Smaii'Ei Men— Eing ! JW. 1 ■ T.; laborer/; ' Burrow 1 John,' farm laborer; Champeiiey j C., ditto; Gall W.", ditto ; Gordon W. J., carpenter r Graeff P., baker; Halloran J., farm laborer; HalloranM, ditto; Koran Pat,' laborer 1 ; Mellor D.;,dit'to ; ; Mo}nix,T., ditto ;. Nott ,W., carpenter ; Norriss S., laborer; Pascbe, F., farm laborer; Muir J., mechanic!;, Sheary, J., ; "Healy J,, laborer; Spencer E., tailor; Yon Belle Gh, "'farm laborer; Friend .Q-.i ! ditto ; "Brunvin F., laborer 1 ; Farley W. J., ditto; Gregory F., gardener; Kerlithy F., laborer ; Kennedy. ; J.,, farm laborer ; Orr . John, gardener. : Single, "Women I—Seafie1 — Seafie A., servant ; Searle B. J., ditto ; Kelly M., ditto; Sterling C, ditto; Friend A., ditto; Spencer A.,, ditto. The Fern Glen is now 73 days out, and being a new ship : her'arrival may be i for r ! shortly: ;,The hum'bbr of immigrants on board, is. ! 18S>,!'M^jrithree d£ Whbm are. for kelson, and the remainder for 'other. s provinces.