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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 96, 10 April 1876, Page 2

•An inquest is to be held at the Masonic Hotel this evening on the body of Mary Ann Prebble, a girl of 17 years of age, who died suddenly last night. 'y*-~Kkp Government wharf was again * put up to auction this morning at the reduced upset price of £400, but there were no bidders a for the reason, as we understand, that a clause in the lease provides that the Government shall be at liberty to take any portion of the wharf that may be required for the new harbor works without any compensation to the lessee. Greatly to the disappointment of our cricketers, and, no doubt, of the Motueka men as well, the Lady Barkly did not show up in time to take over the eleven this morning who were to play in the match arranged to take place at Motueka to-day. We have not heard whether any fresh arrangements have been made. -j^The following tenders for the per/formance of inland mail services for the year have been accepted : — Between Motueka and vessels at the wharf, J. Delauey, £10; railway station, Richmond, and Post Office, T. O'Connell, £12 ; railway station, Stoke, and Post Office, A. "W". Barnett, £10; railway station, Hope, and Post Office, F. J. Hingston, £10; railway station, Spring Grove, and Post Office, Hodder and Talbot, £Q ; railway station, Wakefield, and Post Office, R. Chatlock, £10; railway station, Foxhill, and Post Office, P. K. Watty, £20; Waitapu Post Office and wharf, Wm. Page, £10. A cricket match was played oh Saturday between the Nelson -College Cadets and the City and Artillery Cadets, which resulted in favor of the former, who scored 64 against tbei opponents 34. — A match was also played in the Botanical Gardens reserve on Saturday afternoon, between the City Rifles and Naval Brigade, and resulted in a victory for the soldiers by 25 runs and four wickets to go down. At the District Court this morning, hia Honor the Judge commented upon tbe absurdity of the lawjwhich requires that the jurors for the District Court should be summoned in alphabetical order, showing that the result in Nelson, where the list comprises 1000 names, would be that the jurors must always be selected from those who were unfortunate to have names commencing with either A. or 8., as the list had to be made up every year, aud to be commenced afresh each time after being made up. The manner in which the jury is struck, we may add for the information of our readers, is that twelve are summoned, and the counsel on each side strikes out one until only four, the number required, are leit. Mr Chapman, of Melbourne, better known as " Augur," the sporting writer for the Australasian, who is making, the tour of the colony ior the purpose of personally inspecting and reporting on all the New Zealand stables, has been the guest of Mr H. Redwood at Spring Creek farm during the last few days.