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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 103, 19 April 1876, Page 2

this evening. The charitable purposeand'the excellent programme combined/-* should fill the Hall to overflowing. Z There were! heavier floods in the rivers yesterday than have been knowifo for some years past. In the Wairoa the water was running very nearly level with the floor of the old, cart bridge, and huge trees were being carried down at a terrific pace. We,, have not heard, however, of any damage;, being done. The Marlborough mail man> who should have arrived yesterday afternoon, did not leave Havelock untilthis morning, knowing that it was useless to attempt to cross the Maitai." Haycock's coach started for Motueka this morning, but found Stratford's Creek impassable, and had to return to Richmond. [Sirice the above was in type we have been informed that the Havelock mailman had to put back to- . day, finding the rivers too high to cross.] When his Excellency the Governor was at Napier a few weeks ago, a ball was given in his honor by the townspeople. On the following day a letter appeared in the Hawke's Bay Herald, in which certain mysterious . allusions were made to the effect that the ball had cost £60 more than had been received from the sale of tickets; that this had arisen from the fact that 22s per head had been, paid to the person who supplied the liquor, : and who also extracted £30 from the bail" committee for the use of the hall; and that the person who had been paid these large amounts had been so paid simply because he was connected by marriage with a prominent and influential member of the committee. This letter had the effect of bringing out a number , of indignant denials of the charges from the parties interested, the last of which is one from the liquor-caterer, asking the editor of the Herald to furnish him with the name of his correspondent in order that he may horsewhip him. We may add that the charges , of favoritism against the member of the committee above referred to have been entirely disproved. The Westport Times says that there waa found in the pocket of John Gordon who recently committed suicide fiere a newspaper extra, containing an account of the suicide committed by Mrs Scott of Takaka. The array of sportsmen, br, at all ; event?, of men with guns, who turned out to scare ducks on Saturday morning (says the Timaru Herald), was something wonderful, and we only hops we shall not have many fatal or evVn| serious accidents to report, A little-* peppering at long range, we Bhould- not be deeply grieved to henr of. Wbat a curious infatuation it is that leads every man who has a rusty firelock and a mongrel retriever, to be in a state of wild excitement on the very first day of the shooting season ? We should .like to be able to publish an. accurate Met of the game killed by each of the bold chasseurs wbo imperilled their own and each other's life during the past two days. If there were not more " duck's eggs " scored than ducks bagged, we are greatly mistaken. And the colds these fellows catch, too, splashing and wading about, in blind ignorance of the habits of the birds, or the lay of the country 1 Well, well — dootors must live, and human eccentricities and vanities must be indulged. A quantity of oysters of a remarkable size aod superior excellence (says tbe Auckland Herald) have recently arrived in town from the Bay of Islands. They seem to be of the description known as drift oysters, such as are found scattered upon the mud-fiats among the roots of mangroves. They completely throw into the shade all those hitherto celebrated ones from Rangitoto and Coromaudel, and will doubtless prove the forerunners of an extensive supply from the North.

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