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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 195, 8 August 1876, Page 2

The new Sunday school building in connection with Christ Church which has recently been erected in the "Wood will be opened to-morrow evening. There will be a tea party commencing at half-past five, after which addresses, interspersed with vocal and instrumental music, will be delivered. The Right Rev the Bishop of Nelson will preside.

The Harmonic Society will give their next concert, consisting of miscellaneous selections, on Thursday evening. Members are reminded that a full rehearsal will be held at the Provincial Hall this evening: The Bishop of Nelson will deliver a lecture at Lower Wakefield on Thursday evening next on The Catacombs of Rome. The proceeds will be devoted to the parsonage fund. The Simonsen Opera Company sailed for New Plymouth in the Wellington last night. On their return, in about five weeks time, they will probably give one or more concerts in the Provincial Hall.

The Artillery Company mustered in strength at the Drill Shed last night, when, after gun drill, Captain Pitt expressed his thanks to Sergeant-Major Mowatt for the instruction he had given the Company, and the regret they all felt at parting with him. Mr Mowatt returned his sincere thanks for the uniform kindness displayed towards him by the volunteers and the people of Nelson generally. The Company then marched down to the wharf, preceded by the Band, where they bade farewell to their late instructor, who took his departure for Wellington in the Taranaki.

At the Richmond Magistrates' Court yesterday, before J. W'. Barnicoat, F. Kelling, C. Hunter Brown, and GTalbot, Esqs., J.J.P., T. Kearns, Geo. Newport, Austin Lines, and John G-iflbrd were, at the complaint of the district constable, ordered to find sureties in £5 each to keep the peace for .three months for lighting fires on the public highway.— Joseph G-ledhill and James O'Connor were each fined 5a and costs for furious riding through Richmond on the night of the 22nd July. — Eighteen other cases were set down for hearing, principally for the recoyery of small debts, the majority of which were settled out of Court.

Several passengers by the Taranaki last evening received a salutary lesson on the evils of procrastination. The steamer was advertised to sail at nine o'clock, but it was nearly half-past before she started, and when near the buoy opposite the Albion Wharf several intending passengers came running down the wharf bawling out lustily, " Taranaki ahoy!" The pilot in charge of the steamer considerately waited until the contrite passengers came alongside in a waterman's boat, when the Taranaki steamed away. No doubt these passengers will be more punctual for the future.

A jibbing horse attached to an Albert car was good enough to relieve the dulness of the streets this wretched afternoon by performing some extraordinary pranks in Trafalgar-street. He appeared to have but two ideas, one that he ought to run backwards, the other that the cab behind him should b& under shelter, for first he ran it undeijthe verandah of Trafalgar House, and then when by the persuasive pressure of half a dozen men and boys on the wheels he was fairly shoved out of that, he turned round and made another backward rush at Messrs Buxton and Co's verandah. Altogether he showed himself to be about the most determinedly obstinate brute that was ever in harness, and it was a long time before he could bs persuaded to rua straight. When he did he seemed to be anxious to make up for lost time.