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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 99, 13 April 1876, Page 2

To-Jmorrp ; w bging Good Friday, the Eye nin'g Maii. will, not ibe published.7 "We are requested to call attention to the sale of racecourse privileges to be held at Messrs" Sharp arid Pickering's rooms oa Saturday at noon. We are informed that out of fche 20,000 shares in „_the Colonial Bank of New Zealand placed on the London market 10,000 were at once disposed, qf , afc, a premium of from three to four shillings". 77 7_ <r 7 '" -y'-f-f ■■> At a meeting of the members ofthe members of the City Cadets .011 , Wednesday evening Sub-Lieutenant Downes and Color- Sergeant Roscow were elected lieutenant <* and sub-lieutenant respectively. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning John Cosley was charged with drunkenness, and with wilfully destroying a lock, the property of George Ward, of Alma, street. For the first offence he was fined 5s and costs, and for the second 20s and costs, and was ordered to pay 5s the value of the property destroyed, or to be imprisoned for seven days. He elected to avail himself of the . accommodation afforded by her Majesty's gaol. In calling, attention to an advertisement in another f column announcing an entertainment for the benefit; of the bereaved family of a late brother of the Independent Order of Good Templars, a miner, who met wifch a violent death iv Otago a short time since, we would remind our readers that the Good Templars', although not a direct benefit society, has been the means of benefitting many in the hour of need, both outside and inside the Order. We •may mention the case of the late Capt. H. Hamilton. The sum of £13 13s having been raised for the widow and family by the Order in Nelson, an appeal was made to other lodges in : New Zealand, and the result up to the present time is thafc fche, amount has. reached the handsome sum ot £86 Is, mostly from Otago. Minor cases are of frequent occurrence; . An appeal has ' now'been~"made to the Order in Nelson by Otago, and we would recommend our readers, independent of the merits , pf the attractive programme offered on Wednesday evening next,; to aid the Good Templars in their laudable intention by giving them a bumper house. . . All who know Captain Wheeler are aware thafc he is a splendid shot. He and a Mr G. S. Smith were out shooting in Otago during the second day of the season, and were exceedingly "fortunate, bagging during the day 13J brace of duck, and 8 brace of pukako, or swamp hen. The Mayor (says the Wellington Times) is doing a good stroke of business fo,r the ratepayers in the matter of bill posting, which has opened up quite a new source of income. The three newspapers now pay £10 a-piece for liberty, to' post bills Upon the' wharf for one year; and to-day a tender for the exclusive right to use the fence of the Council's yards in Manners-street for this purpose Was accepted at a sum of £40 for the same period. We (//. B. Telegraph) hear that at the levee on Friday the native chief Tareha " improved* the occasion " by saying a few words to his Excellency to the following effect;, as we are informed:—The pakehas, he said, came in at one door and out at the other, like * rats running in and out of their holes, without saying anything, but he had something to say to the Governor, and these were his . words to him: That there was a . Maori prisoner now cotJfined , in. the ... Napier .7 gaol who, he '.thought, ought to have been set free, when Governor Fergusson liberated the -political prisoners. His Excellency, ': we I are : informed,- replied : that he did • not know anything of the matter, but would make enquiries respecting it. : Mr W. Aitkeri, 'of Auckland, , has : offered a silver cup to be .played for by the chess players of fi\_Q provinces under the following conditions. 1 — 1. That; . a]l matbhes. shall be f played under thb Auckland Chess Association regulations for. -playing the game by telegraph. 2. That the matches' shall be between the chess players of one province and those of any other province in New Zealand. 3. That the first match shall be. played between Auckland and Qtago, the winner to play the remaining provinces duly entered. 4. All provinces intending to compete must notify the same to him on or before the 30fch day of April next. 5. The number of players on each side shalLnot be less than twelve. 6. The province winning the cup shall, as soon as convenient, hold a tournament, open only to the players of that province who engaged in the matches, the cup to be the property of fche winner of the most games. Ifc has been ascertained by the New York World thafc a large trade is done in New York by certain men wbo furnish corpses for dissection to medical students all over the country at tbe very moderate rate of 25d01s (£5) for each subject; and that these bodies are stolen from the graves of poor persons who are buried in the humbler quarters of fche cemeteries. About 300. Canadian bullocks (says a Canadian journal) were sold, in the Liverpool cattle market recently. Tbeir quality wns remarkably good, and they fetched from £34- fco £40 per head. This is the second importation from the same quarter, and the result is aaid to be very encouraging to importers.

Recently Jthei*e was a ; lifting match\ at Eureka, Nevada, 7b'efcvveen two men, j for a; prize of 20ddols,.the7wiuner lifting ; a 151 b: dumb-bell at arrays length the > - greatest number ; offtimes. Tbe loser,| lifted it 1130, the winner 11-M times. * A Russian correspondent writes to the St. Louis ' Globe Democrat; ' that there is to be a great European war, with, on one side,- France, - Austria, and .Russia, and ma -the .other f Germany, ■■ England, and Turkey. Awful Retribution. — It is the ruth rlessly contemplative mind of Perkins..* | which evolves this exquisite consummation: — "In toll this wotld of • woes, canit be possible to imagine another retribution so stern, so awful, and, wifchalf so just, as that exhibited in tho marriage of a life insurance agent to a lady book canvasserP'V -■- ,_ ■ •*-. — -, :r .— - -*-.-.* r ,,» , 7 v,The Timaru [ fferaldf fpt&iea f that r owing to the interruption to the shipping operations, caused by the long spell of unfavorable weather at present being experienced,, the stores in town are blocked up with grain waiting for exportation. The "Services alone have at least 20,000 sacks, awaiting.shipment, and the stocks altogether must amount up to over 40,C>00 sacks. The greater portion of this ia for shipment to Dunedin. . .-.- „ . . , ( A curious kind of ' claimant ' turned op the other day (writes the London correspondent of the Auckland Stctr), from your side. Some, years ago there died at Drogheda, in Ireland,- a certain Alderman Carthy, who cut up for £200,000. This very comfortable sum had been distributed amongst five persons who claimed toi be the next of kin, when, bey ! presto ! there ; turns up from New Zealand a female party claiming to be tbe paternal aunt of the late Alderman, - and demanding the entire property, lock, stock, and barrel, much to the disgust of the five sharers. When the affair first came before the Vice-Chancellor's .Court, it was s**vorn that tbis blessed aunt was .defunct, since 'she was eighty' years of hfee when she left Ireland, and that was no ■ less than fifty-live years agb. TV^hen she went to New Zealand does not appear, but if sbe went straight from Ireland in 1820,1 should have thought she would , Jong ago have afforded co und and wholesome nourishment to many a Maori warrior. However this may be, a motion has been made to stay-: proceedings on behalf of this hundred and thirty-five year old fossil aunt from fNew Zealand, llf she proves to be the very identical aunt it will be a grand thing fpr ;youi We shall all want ,, to flee away from this laod, where we seldom. get over our four score years, to a region where wb can feel up tb a journey round the world, and a law-suit at 135.