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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 267, 8 December 1876, Page 2

VICTORIA FiRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY EFFECT INSURANCE OS ALL KIKDS OF MERCHANDISE and PROPERTY AT LOWEST RATES _*•#" Prompt and Liberal Settlement jjgg hi. DAVIS & CO., Aeents. MR. "D AWSON,- DKNTIST, will visit JA* Nelsm in a few days. December 1, 1876.

It is with great pleasure that we learn that Mr Webley has returned to Nelson, and intends to re-commence the manufacture of cloth at the mill in Bridge-st. We sincerely hope that he will meet with every success in the undertaking. Thb pair-oared outrigger lately built by Mr Taylor for the Interprovincial Regatta will be put into the water for the first time to-morrow afternoon. The parade of the Artillery Cadets ordered for Monday next has been postponed for a week. Radical changes for the better take place in the disordered and weakened stomach, the torpid liver, the dormant or congested kidneys, the irritated bladder, the overstrained nerves, the rheumatic joints and weakened muscles, when that supremely efficient stomachic, anti-bilious remedy, nervine blood depurent and tonic, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is employed to rectify their disorders or overcome their disabilities. —Advt.

The Wellington Argus says that a number of journeymen bootmakers in the city have knocked off work, owing to employers reducing the price of labor one shilling per pair. Mr Fitzherbert was to have been present at the opening of a new bridge in the Wellington district, but was prevented by illness from attending. In writing to the Committee giving the reason of his absence, he expresses his " regret at not being able to be present at the opening of another of those important local public works which have been undertaken during my government of this pro /ince for the advancement of its inhabitants in settlement and civilisation. I can only hope that in virtue of the system of local selfgovernment now provided for you, you will be enabled in the future to execute such important public works as the Taueru Bridge in greater number and better style." At a recent meeting of the Auckland Institute, Dr Purchas asked and obtained permission to read a note from a friend of his at Onehunga describing how a rat which had intruded into a rabbit hut was punished for his temerity by having his neck cut, his tail skinned, and his ears bitten by the rabbits. Mr Barstow followed with a story of how a rat had gained a victory over a cat>