The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 269, 11 December 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1876.

Mr Everett's name was the only one proposed to-day for the Mayoralty, so that he has been duly elected. The official declaration will be made on Wednesday, the 20th instant.

A report of the proceedings afc Karamea in celebration of the second anniversary of the settlement will be found in the fourth page of to-day's issue.

The annual sports will be held in the College grounds on Wednesday afternoon. These usually possess a good deal of interest, which will be even greater this time than it has been for the last two or threa years on account of the keen contest that is expected for the Cup.

The Mirror of England panorama arrived by the Taupo yesterday morning, and will be exhibited in the Provincial Hall to-morrow evening. The paintings are beautifully executed, and the scenes they represent judiciously selected, there being among others, exclusive of London itself, views of Oxford, Windsor, Eton, Richmond, Kew, &c. As an additional attraction, Mr and Mrs George Cofcterell, who will be heartily welcomed back to Nelson, are to appear at each performance. The prices of admission have been fixed at the low rates of three, two, and one shillings m order that all may have an 'opportunity of attending. Reserved seats may be secured at Mr W. M. Stanton's.

A meeting of the Regatta Committee will be held to-morrow evening at the usual place and hour. As the time appointed for the regatta is rapidly approaching, and there are yet many arrangements to ba mada, ifc is hoped that there will be a full attendance.

The nomination of candidates for the representation of the Riding of Motueka in the Waimea County Council is to take place nf Hie Institute, Lower Wakefield, ou Wed-ik-s .ay next at noon, and for the Riding of Hampden, in the County of Inangahua, at the Hampden Court House on Monday, the 18th instant.

Thk match between the All England Eleven and the New South Wales fifteen, which was concluded on Saturday, appears to have been a well contested one. The scores were:— All England, first innings 121, second 106; New South Wales, first innings 81, second 123. At one time ifc looked as though the colonials were going to win, as in their seconds innings 100 runs had been secured with the loss of only eight wickets. The remaining six, however, appear to hava been more easily dispased of, only 23 being added by them to the score.

Some little excitement was created at the Port yesterday by the Murray flying the police flag as she came down the Bay from the West Coast, and sundry speculations were indulged in as to the probability of her having on board the man Powell, who recently escaped from gaol. It proved, however, that all the excitement waa founded upon a very small basis, the services of the police being only required to remove to the Asylum a little girl who had been sent up from the Coast, as a lunatic.

The only case in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning was Fell and Atkiason v. David Goodhall for £82 15 s, ca9h advanced and interest. There was no appearance of the defendant, and judgment was given for plaintiffs for amount claimed and costs £2 7s. Two or three other cases were set down for hearing, but they were adjourned.

For the first time since the interprovincial regatta has been decided upon there appeared on Saturday afternoon to be some interest taken in boating matters, a race having been arranged to take place between the Nelson Rowing Club's two gigs, and the whaleboat Thistle, from a spot near the target on the Boulder Bank, to the entrance of the harbor, about two miles. The boats were manned as follows:— The Richmond, MessrsGully (bow), Burnett, Warnock, and H. Freeman (stroke), Rev J. Kempthorne coxswain; The Victory, Messrs Seed (bow), Symonds, Thomas, and Severne (stroke), Dr Sealy coxswain; The Thistle, Messrs T. Wimsett (bow), C. Bird, Reid, W. Westrupp, H. Wimsett (stroke), and Johnson coxswain. The Thistle did not pull the whole distance, but the race between the other two was a very fair one, the Richmond winniug by three lengths. It is to be hoped that practice will be steadily persevered in, as there is but a very short time to elapse before the regatta, which , unless our men take a more active interest in rowing than they have hitherto displayed, will result in all the larger prizes leaving Nelson. It would seem that our local club is not even to be represented in the champion race, as the outrigger has, if we are rightly informed, been in the. water only once.

The pair-oared boat recently built by Mr Taylor was put into the water for the first time on Saturday afternoon. She has a fair turn of speed, and with a couple of good oars in her ought to show up well in the race. Considering the difficulties tha builder has had to contend with in the way of procuring the best timber, she is well constructed, and will compare favorably with any colonialbuilt gigs. The gig is fitted with sliding seats, and also possesses a new feature ia the steering apparatus, with which she is, perhaps, the first boat built in the colony to be fitted. It consists of two separate bars laid parallel to the top of the stretcher, end to end, upon the face of it, at a height to bring them level with the ball of the foot, one bar for each foot to work. These bars are hinged, each at one end (that nearest to the other bar), to the stretcher Between each end thus hinged is a space of about six inches, leaving the stretcher in its normal state. Under these bars, where they touch the stretcher, the wood is cut away, so that they can lie flush with the stretcher. Then under each bar is placed a strong spring, so that the further end of each bar, thus elevated by the spring, stands out from the stretcher some four inches, the inside end remaining, of course, always flush with the stretcher at its pivot, being held by, this hinge. To the further end of each bar is attached the rudder line. When either bar is pressed the spring yields, and the bar sinks more or less flush with the stretcher. The apparatus is known as Woodgate's patent, and was used by him in the first coxswainless four-oared race that was ever rowed in England, at Henley, in 1868. Mr Taylor now has on the stocks a whaleboat, which is inteuded to take part in the forthcoming regatta. She will, probably, be finished at the end of this week.

A correspondent writes to us from Motupiko Valley with reference to the proposed removal of the school house in that district. He says that at a meeting called for the purpose, Mr Gibbs proposed that the school be removed to Whara Flat, as being a far more central spot tban that on which it now stands, which is at one end of a district four miles in length, thus compelling some of the children to walk that distance. As au nducement he offered to give an acre of land and to split the necessary shingles free of cost. This proposal of course met with eonsiderable opposition from those at whose doors the school at present stands, and Mr Quinney, the chairman of the meeting, suggested its removal to his paddock, a distance of only 500 yards from its present site. It was suggested that it would not be worth the expense to move it so short a distance, and that the money required for such an object would be far better devoted towards the erection of a teacher's house, separate from the school. The meeting, owing to the short notice given, was but poorly attended, and on the chairman putting the question there

was an equal number of hands held up for each proposition, whereupon Mr Quinney gave his casting vote in favor of the removal to his own paddock. Our correspondent requested that tbis might appear before the meeting of the Central Board on Thursday last but it did not reach us in lime, but, as the consideration of the proposal has been postponed until the next monthly meeting, we publish it now, as the matter appears to be one that requires enquiring into. Sir Astley Cooper, the renowned British surgeon, once said that no man should be aware from his sensations that he had a stomach. Alas ! how many thousands are painfully and continually reminded of the existence of that organ. Dyspepsia renders the lives of these unfortunates perfectly miserable. Every manifestation of the disease vanishes, however, when Udoplho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is used to strengthen the stomach and associate the organs.— Advt.