The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 17, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 176, 17 July 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 17, 1876.

Our San Francisco mail telegrams to-day, which will be found in the fourth page, contain a very full summary of the news of the month. The state of ailair3 in Turkey, regarding which there are advices up to the 21st of June, is most critical, and further news will be looked for with no little anxiety. The rite of confirmation was administered in the presence of a crowded congregation at Christ Church last night to eleven young lady candidates by the Right Rev the Bishop of Nelson, who delivered a most impressive address suitable to the occasion.

The return match between the College football team, assisted by four old Collegians, and the Town Club, was played on Saturday, and resulted in favor of the former by a goal, kicked by Mr Firth, and a try against their opponents' nothing.

Thkbe was a large muster of the City Artillery and Artillery Cadets at church parade yesterday morning. Headed by the Band the two Companies marched to AU Saints', where an excellent sermon was preached by the Right Rev the Bishop of Nelson on the occasion of the departure to England of the Yen Archdeacon Thorpe, who read the prayers, but was not sufficiently strong to preach.

A lengthy judgment, for which we regret that we are unable to-day to find space, was given by tbe Resident Magistrate this morning in the caße of Hale v. Anderson, in which the plaintiff claimed £86 damages for injuries received in a collision with the defendant's cart on the Wakapuaka Road. The judgment was for the plaintiff for £25, and costs £3 3s.

Dr. Carr, who held another successful seance on Saturday night, will appear for the last time in Nelson tonight, when he will deliver a lecture on spiritualism and the supernatural, to be followed by a mesmeric seance. He will give entertainments at the Agricultural Hall, Richmond, to-morrow night, and at the Spring Grove Schoolroom on Thursday.

We remind our readers of the meeting to be held at the Masonic Hotel this evening, for the purpose of discussing the advisability of forming a Company to purchase the Nelson Cloth Factory, the product of which has attained so high a character throughout the colony.

We have received from a correspondent a report of the meeting of the Stoke Bifles, held on Saturday night, but are compelled to hold it over until to-morrow. The monthly meeting of the Permanent Building Society takes places at the Temperance Hall this evening. Mb. Symonds, a piano-tuner of considerable repute, who brings with him excellent testimonials from Wellington and other towns in the colony, advertises that be will be prepared to tune pianos in Nelson for a few days. None, not even fche mosfc devout, can listen with calm composure to fche simultaneous reading of the Church Service and fche clattering of the firebells, and so ifc happened that when firsfc one and then the ofcher of the bells in fche town sounded fche alarm about seven o'clock last nighfc, churchgoers pricked up their ears, looked afc each other, and finally picked up their hats and made for the nearest door, on passing through which each looked in the direction of his own house or office. Fortunately the cause of the alarm was nothing more serious fchan a blazing chimney in fche house of Mr Jones, tailor, in Bridge-street, and as the flame was seen to be speedily extinguished, the worshippers returned to their devotions. The smartness wifch which the hose-reel was on the ground was astonishing. Inspector Kiely, Sergeant Nash, and Mr Cooksey, having heard fche alarm given before the bells sounded, had it out afc once and on the way to the fire, where many members of the Brigade were already assembled in uniform, as though they had been suddenly called into existence by fche firsfc clang of the bell.

" Suffering at home from the joint attacks of influenza and rheumatism, the editor of this journal ( Wairarapa Standard) was not able to make any comments on the late Financial Statement, nor to prevent the attempt which was unsuccessfully made to put the contents, without any process of condensation, of a quart measure into a pint pot." The editor, apparently recovered, then devotes himself to a review of the Statement, which he does rather unfavorably.