The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 6. 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 115, 6 May 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 6. 1876.

"We are requested to Btate that until the repair of the Port Darwin and Java cable is effected, no telegrams for places beyond the Australian colonies will be accepted at any of the New Zealand offices. Mr". Martin Powell the ventriloquist will give an entertainment at the Masonic Hall this evening. A sailing match that is likely to prove as interesting as any that has yet taken place in New Zealand, has been arranged between the cutter Planet, backed by Mr J. Kerr, aud Mr Kichardson's yacht Granuet. The course is to be round Durville's Island, passing it on the outside, and returning through the French Pass, the Planet giving the Grannet an hour's start. The stakes, which were deposited on the signing of the preliminary agreement are £100 a side. The only condition that was inserted was that Mr Kerr was to be able to procure the Planet for the trip, and as, there is not likely to be any difficulty placed in the way, the match, which, it is stipulated, shall take place next week, is pretty certain to come off. The usual annual meeting of the Nelson Football Club is advertised to be held on Monday evening next. We hope to see a good muster roll this year, as the season is expected to be a particularly lively one. There will probably be at least two Interprovincial matches to be played, one in Wellington and another with a Southern team on our own ground. Tho weak point of our Nelson Club has always been the smallness of its numbers, a fact difficult to account fbr when it is understood that the subscription is only os, and that the Club is opeu to all. The regular monthly sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court at -Spring Grove will be held on the 10th instant, having been adjourned in consequence of the Supremo Court sitting on the Ist instant. Ther6 are twenty-two cases set down for hearing ; four of these are ordinary road rate, cases, nearly all the rest being disputed accounts. The total railway receipts during the two race days amounted to £120. The new Lunatic Asylum will be formally opened by his Honor the Superintendent on Tuesday evening next, at half-past seven. Tickets already issued for the eutertainment to be given will be available, and others may be obtained on application to Mr Lowe, Mr Scaife, Dr Boor, or Mr Butler. The race meeting was appropriately brought to a close last night by a race ball, which passed off most pleasantly being greatly enjoyed by all who were present. The ceremony of naming the two boats lately procured by the Nelson Rowing Club from . Melbourne, took place this afternoon in the presence of a large number ot spectators. The Naval Brigade's boat Aurora having been launched under the command of Capt. Kichardsoc, Miss Richmond, who had been invited to perform the ceremony, accompanied by a number of ladies, took their seats in her, and having been pulled a few yards from the landing place, she was brought up and the two new boats were , pulled alongside her. Miss Richmond then dashing a bottle of champagne on the bows of the first named her the Victory, and performing the same ceremony to the second said : " I name this boat the Richmond, and may she and her sister boat the "Victory win many laurels for the Nelson Rowing Club." Cheers having been given for Miss Richmond and tbe ladies, a procession was formed with tbe Aurora in the lead, followed by the Victory, the Richmond, and a number of boats, and in this order they pulled round the harbor. We wish every success to these new additions to our racing boats. It will be remembered that in our first report of Dogherty's arrest on a charge of driving cattle from a diseased district, it was stated that some twenty head were missing. A constant search has been kept up for these without any result until yesterday, when sixteen of them were found up the Haupiri River. We learn from the Sydney papers that the New Zealand and Australian cable is already a financial success. The atukes won at the late race meeting were paid to-day to the several winners in the following proportions : — Mr H. Redwood, f 159 ; Messrs Stevenson and Frazer, £74; Mr Smith, £60j Mr Jackson, £50; Mr Rives, £15.

"Under the -heading'? Millar, E S.A., triumphantly acquitted. Civil action-, for £25,000 damages," the following; telegram dated Nelson, May 3, was published by the Post as coming from ; its own correspondent: — In the .case'; Queen y. Millar, the defendant's reply . to the indictment, guilty or not guilty, was exceedingly characteristic of the man. He pleaded " Not guilty," inasmuch as he had never knowingly or designedly defrauded any tnau of a single shilling 1 , officially or personally, during a professional career of fifty years. The unanimous verdict of the special jury, after only five minutes consideration, was " Not . guilty." Millar's case was denounced by his ( counsel as an o' Conor persecution, under the pretence ot a prosecution. Rumor says that an action is pending for £25,000 damages.