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

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 95, 8 April 1876, Page 2

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

We understand that his Honor the Superintendent, who is now in Wel- . lington, has made very- satisfactory financial arrangements with the General Groyerntnent, they having agreed to provide the funds estimated by the Provincial Executive to be necessary for the half-year ending September 30. These will include £1000 for a cart bridge over the Maitai. The tenders for the reclamation work in connection with the new wharf were opened yesterday, when thafc of Messrs Jones, Rule, and Stephens for No. I was accepted, and that of Messrs Atkinson, Stringer, and Co., for No. 2. A cricket match between the Nelson and Motueka Clubs will be played at Motueka on Monday. The Lady Barkly will leave here at seven a.m., returning in the evening. Anniyersaey sermons in connection with the Richmond Wesleynn Sunday School will be preached at Richmond to-morrow, and on the following Tuesday there will be a tea and public meeting. The next civil sitting of the District • Court will take place on Monday afc eleven o'clock. There are two cases set down for trial, Meades v. Drake and Assom for £200 damages for injuries inflicted upon the plaintiff by defendants, and W. Harley v. E. 11. Barker tor £200, being the amount of a bill of exchange and interest thereon. Mr CooKSEr announces that he intends to open a. general carrier and parcel delivery agency in connection witih the railway. : This will be a great convenience to residents both in the town and country who have hitherto been in the habit of forwarding their parcels by Holder's coach. Eor particulars we refer our readers to Mr Cooks y's advertisement. A heetinu of the members of the Nelson Rowing Club was held yesterday afternoon, Dr Boor, the vicePresident, in the chair! Mr Maling, who is about to leave for Taranaki for the purpose of superintending the erection of the telegraph' line there, resigned his ofiice as secretary, and read a statement of the finances of the club, which showed that there was £72 to their credit, and £20 owing for the second half of the subscription. He also stated that he had received advices of the boats ordered from Melbourne being shipped by the Ringarooma. A hearty vote of thauks was passed to Mr Maling for the energy he had displayed as seeretary and treasurer. Mr Tennent was then elected in his stead. A farewell dinner to which over forty sat down, was given to Mr M. Sellon last night by the members ofthe Waimea South Jockey Clubhand the Wakefield Cricket Club. A capital dinner was provided by Mr R. M. Smith of the Forest Inn, and the chair was taken by Mr W. White. After the usual, loyal toasts, the. Chairman, in a very suitable speech in which ho

1 -. '-. ... gave expression to tho" great regret. they would all experience in parting with Mr Sellon, who had lived so long amongst them and taken so great an interest in all 6iifc door sports, proposed -, the health 'of the guest of the evening, which was enthusiastically responded to, with three times three and several cheers more. Mr Sellon briefly returned thanks, and. expressed his , great! gratiificatioa ; at ; the manner in which they had entertained him arid had drunk his health. Mr H. Cross then, on behalf of the -Nelaon Cricket Club, presented Mr Sellon with a bat as a slight acknowledgment of the services he had rendered them when playing" matches in concert with the Wakefield Club. Several capital songs were sung during .the evening, and a very pleasant party broke up about midnight. ...,.- The Chief Justice, in passing sentence the other day on William Nash Hills, a clerk in an office in WeUington, who was convicted of embezzling his employers'. • money; made reference to the fact of his having received letters of recommendation from : a Sydney firm of some standing. " There is every reason," he„ said, "to believe that you came to this conntry with a very high recommendation from persons of good position in Sydney — Learmouth, Dickinson, and Co., but those gentlemen did not say that you had just come out of gaol, .where you had been confined oh a charge of forgery and uttering. Although they were fully aware of this" fact they sent you to Mr George Crawford, an eminent merchant here, with a good character. Indeed, so. good was your character represented to be that Mr Crawford went to a bank here, and very nearly succeeded in getting you a good situation in that bank — and this almost immediately after you had been liberated from gaol. It is no part of my business to make any observations about Learmouth, Dickinson, and Co. ; the facts I state would sufficiently condemn them^if they were aware of those facts. My business is simply to impose on you an adequate punishment. It. is evident that you have received a.gpoji education, ' and you yourself say your friends are persons of good position. Now, however much drunkenness may be some slight excuse in regard to minor offences clearly drunkenness is no excuse for forgery and uttering and embezzlement. Therefore, the sentence of the Court upon you is that you be kept ih penal servitude for the term of seven years."