The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 196, 10 August 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1876.

The San Francisco mail will be due at Auckland on Sunday next, but we shall not receive our portion of it before the following Thursday, when it will be brought by the Hawea. A special meeting of the Stoke Farmers' Club, for the discussion of matters of importance, will be held tomorrow evening. The Harmonic Society will give their quarterly concert at the Provincial Hall this evening. Me. Mark Newth, junior, announces that he will run a conveyance between Waimea West and the Wairoa station twice a day, meeting the up train in the morning and the down train in the afternoon. This, no doubt, will prove a great convenience to residents in the district.

We understand that the handsome sum of £42 has been handed over to the Harmonic Society as the net proceeds of the recent amateur dramatic entertainments.

The adjourned meeting re Webley's Cloth Factory will be held at; the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. We understand that several promises of support have been received since the meeting on Monday, and trust that those who take an interest in reinstating this local industry will make a point of attending to-morrow, so that the prospectus may be issued without delay. was a large gathering at the openiDg of the Wood Sunday School yesterday evening. Tea was advertised to be on the table at half, past five, but long before that time there was so large a crowd gathered outside the building, that it was found necessary to throw the doors open at once. There must have been over 300 persons present, and as is usual at gatherings of this kind the fair sex preponderated. There was a plentiful supply of excellent tea, and cakes ad libitum. The ingenuity of the waiters and waitresses was at times taxed to the utmost to seat their visitors as relay after relay came in, and too much praise cannot be accorded to them for the manner in which £ they discharged their onerous duties. At the close of the repast the tables were cleared away, and the meeting was held. His Lordship the Bishop of Nelsou, who was in the chair, sketched oufc the history of the school' and spoke on several topics connected with religious progress. The meeting was also addressed by Mr C. Hunter Brown, and the Rev J. Leighton. The intervals were filled up by hymns sung by the children, songs, and some excellent music on the piano. The bad acoustic properties of the building sadly interfered with the latter, and marred the effects of what was really good playing, but which afc the entrance to the hall was not very distinctly heard. The school was profusely decorated with evergreens, which gave it a very pretty effect. Votes of thanks were tendered to the ladies, the chairman, and several others, and the meeting separated after the benediction had been pronounced.