MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1876.
We understand that Mr Millar, F.S.A., is about to bring an action against tbe Provincial Government for wrongful dismissal, damages being laid at £190 in order to allow of its being brought in the District Court, whose jurisdiction is limited to £200. The case will be heard on Monday next.
Our friends at Stoke have for some time past been making preparations for an entertainment wbich is to be/ given in their Public Hall on Wednesday evening next. The chief feature of the entertainment will be a monster Christmas Tree laden with all sorts of pretty and useful little articles, which will be disposed of by tickets to be purchased at a very low rate in the Hall. There will also be music and singing during tbe evening. A special train will leave Nelson at half-past six and run on to Richmond, whence it will return to Stoke. It will leave Stoke again for Richmond at 9*45, and return at once to Nelson.
The half-yearly meeting of the members of tbe Naval Brigade will be held at the Custom House Hotel to-morrow evening at half-past seven o'clock, and not at the lire Brigade Hall, as advertised in Saturday's issue. AYE hear that, the captain of the Canterbury football team yesterday received a telegram from the captain of tbe Taranaki team, asking that, as the Hawea could not land the Canterbury team at Taranaki, would they come on by the steamer Taranaki," which leaves here to-morrow, Taranaki paying
all expenses. The captain of the Canterbury" team, replied thafe their other engagements' would 1 prevent them irom visiting Taranaki, at least foe the pr&senfc. : . . . ; ;• ] .s^? X?*: Ktimari. digging are gradu-s ally attra'cfcidg people from' othV^parfca of the colony, and there are afc present several in Nelson who are waiting for a chance to get to the Coast. In Wellington also we, hear that there are some ;fortj : or fifty' who would have started in ; the Taranaki for here had a boat been available to carry them on to Greymouth or Hokitika.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 217, 4 September 1876, Page 2
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