The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 218, 5 September 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1876.

At the quarterly Licensing Court held tbis morning the following transfers were applied for and granted : — Thistle Inn, John Edwards to John Devonport ; Prince Albert Inn, "Wm. Good to Charles Beaver. A strange occurrence took place at the Police Station yesterday, after-, noon. A man. named George Baraforth had been taken iv charge on a suspicion of lunacy, and Dr Irvine had been sent for to examine him. The constable who had been in attendance having left the room, the man without the slightest warning jumped from his chair and made a leap through one of the large panes of glass before the astonished doctor could stop bim. He then made a bolt in the direction of Gollingwoodstreet, where he was ultimately, recaptured, being,. with the exception of a few trifling scratches, none the worse for his eccentric performance. He bas since been removed to the Lunatic Asylum. We were slightly in error yesterday in a paragraph noticing the forthcoming sitting of the District Court, in which it fcas stated that Mr Millar intended to sue the Provincial Government for damages for wrongful dismissal, the amount claimed being not damages but arrears of salary alleged to be due. Our telegraphic report of last night's Parliamentary proceedings will be found in tbe fourth page. "We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government printer of Nop. 19 and 20 of Hansatd and several Parliamentary papers. Ao: the Eesident Magistrate's Court at Spring Grove yesterday, William Galbraith was brought up on the information of Constable Knapp for committing a nuisance in a railway carriage, and the charge being fully proved was fined 20s and costs. — Henry Brown charged with assaulting John Palmer^ was fined 20s and costs. A cross action was brought by Brown, but as the cause of it happened twelve months ago, the Court decided that, they could not hear it. A number of small cases were heard and disposed of. The half-yearly meeting of the members of the Naval Brigade will be held at the Custom House Hotel this evening at half-past seven o'clock, when a fall attendance is requested, as there is important business to be transacted. A football match, which promises to be a prettily played and closely contested one, will take place to-morrow afternoon between the "Wellington and

Nelspn collegians. The .. Wellington lads arrived by the Taranaki this mpruing, and will have had plenty of time to recruit after their passage across the, Straits. . • ; * The Hawea arrived at xWe.-ingtoti at 11 o'clock this morning. This will :not allow the Canterbury football team, who are all of them bad sailors, much time to recover from the effects of their sea trip before playing at three o'clock. , A telegram has been received in town stating that Mr John White, of Hokitika, who was a member of the House of Representatives last year, died yesterday after a long illness. A Service of Song, illustrative of the "Pilgrim's Progress," will take place in the Baptist Church to-morrow evening, commencing at half-past 7. Should the weather prove fine, a large attendance is expected. A collection will be made, and the proceeds devoted td replenishing the ' Sunday School Fund. — _ A meeting of the Stoke Farmers' Club, will beheld' this evening, c After o.iir reporter left the ground yesterday the football match proceeded more than ever against our., local players, who were thoroughly overmatched, and notwithstanding jtbeir pi n rk-y play were powerless ' to make even the most trifling score. \ Three ; goals were kicked by. the. Canterbury men, and at the close of the matc_t the score was, Canterbury 30, "Nelson 6. • The two teams sat down 'together at six o'clock to an excellent dinner, provided in Mr M'Gee's best style at the Nelson Hotel, but there was not much .time for .toast; drinking afterwriS'ds, as .theYsteamer. was to jail at eight a'clpck. Our visitors were accompanied' to the Port'by "their late opponents, and loud and hearty cheers were given - both from the wharf and the steamer as she slowly moved away, both sides being thoroughly satisfied with the pleasant and gentlemanly manner in wbich the game had been conducted. Telegraphic communication is interruptei between Wellington and Wanganui and New Plymouth. We occasionally hear ot boats, iron tanks, and boulder stones flying about the streets of Wellington under the. influence of the balmy breezes that now and then softly sigh over the Empire City, but it appears that it can blow in other, parts of the province besides the capital with sufficient force to send a heavily-laden coach flying off the road. The Post of Saturday says : — " The Wairarapa coach was going at a steady pace past the roadmen's hut, on the Bimutaka Hill, the break being hard down, and the horaes well in band, the weather being previously quite calm, when a sudden and furious gust of wind blew the coach right oyer and sent it rolling down the hill. It went right down to the bottom, and was completely smashed to pieces, but, strange to say, the horses escaped unhurt." All the passengers wore severely cut and bruised, and Mr Toxward had his leg broken. A Wellington telegram to the Southern Cross says that " Sir Julius Yogel really goes home as a partner in a large Jewish financial firm in London, relatives of his own. He intended to resign in any case, and was only induced to accept the Agent-Generalship with some pressure, as being in the interests of tlie colony." The Marlborough Express suggests v that Sir George Grey and Sir Julius Yogel should pair off for the rest of the session. The Herald says that there is an unusually large number of houses to let in Auckland at present, yet rents are still as high as ever. Mr Huntley Elliott has been placed in charge of the Immigration Department in place of Mr C. E. Haughton. Mr Bonnington, the well-known music seller of Christchurch, at one time a resident in Nelson, is about to estab.; lish the head-quarters of his extensive . business in Wellington, plans for a spacious music warehouse on Lambton Quay having been prepared. The freehold and run belonging to Messrs Fitzroy and Ackland, in Canterbury, known as HesJerton, has been sold for £6900. The property comprises 440 acres of freehold and 13,000. of run, with sheep, improvements, &c. A very good sign of the times (says our Waikato contemporary) is the presence amongst us of a large number of moneyed men on the look-out for improved farms or large areas of partially improved land for purposes of bona Jide settlement. An effort is being made, by thePoverty Bay Oil Springs Company to induce Melbourne capitalists co purchase their plant, which is worth £1500, with the view of thoroughly testing the reinunerativeness or otherwise of the concern. It is believed that there is a super- ; abundance of oil on the block of land known as the oil springs block, and that all that is necessary to develop it ia enterprise. The company . expended some £2000 or £3000 in the purchase of a plant and in boring for oil, but their capital having been expended when only a depth of about 120 feet had been reached, and the' Shareholders getting impatient of success, it was resolved to wind up the company, and a motion to that effect was- unanimously carried at a public meeting of the shareholders held about three months ago. That there is abundance of oil at Poverty Bay, and all along the coast as far north as East Cape is certain, but as yet no great effort has been made to develop thia; source of wealth. An energetic Melbourne company, by proper management, would, it is certain, make the oil springs a paying Speculation,

The TBaqaes" correspondent of the Auckland: Herald I writes i : — Formings, companies is again all; the-irage. This is ; being overdone, and is diverting capital that might be sped t to better .^dvanfcagevto .district, and to the, holders of mining property. Within" the last few days, ten or twelve new companies have been formed in Ohinemuri, and some of them have never had a pick in the ground.. . It is stated that Captain Morris's i seat for the East Coast cost him about' £700, including travelling and law expenses. The item for drinks for -per-.. sons favorable to the Captain's return is very small, beiug under ten _hi_lihgs. Of this heavy outlay Captain Read has to pay nearly £200, which will reduce Captain Morris's expenditure to about £500. Mr George Gordon M'Kay, a sharebroker of Auckland, committed suicide at the Thames last Thursday* by,.ontting . his throat. -Deceased was -for Matty. years manager of the London Chartered Bank at Ballarat, Victoria.