The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 3, 3 January 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1877.

In the fourth page of to-day's issue will be found an amusing skit from the Rangiora Standard on the Cheviot County election. To appreciate the satire it must be remembered that the gentleman alluded to is the proprietor of nearly the whole of the County. The Waimea County Council will meet in the Provincial Hali at noon to-morrow. A meeting of the Regatta Committee was held last night, Commodore Cross in the chair. Telegrams from Wellington and Kaiapoi were read, stating that crews would probably leave those places for Nelson during the present week. It was resolved that with the exception of the outrigger races, the course for which would be a straight oue, the course should be the same as on previous occasions, the Government wharf beiug the starting point. It was decided that there might be three refreshment booths, a fancv bazaar, and a skittle ground, the sites for which should be sold by Mr Mabin next Saturday. Messrs Everett, Gollop, and West were added to the Sailing Committee; Mr Garrard was appointed starter; and a Committee was formed to receive the visitors and provide accommodation and dressing rooms for them while practising. The meeting then adjourned until next Saturday. , Tub Wellington rowing men evidently mean business at the forthcoming regatta, as it will be seen by our telegrams that a crew with five boats left there for Nelson in the Hawea this afternoon. [ Mr. A. M'Gee advertises a Derby sweep of £100 on the champion four-oared out- [ rigger, race, to be drawn on the evening before the regatta. A Port Chalmers telegram published yesterday informed us of the arrest of a passenger by the ship May Queen, from London, giving the name of Jackson. His real name, however, is W. Henry Ward, and a telegram was forwarded through the Oriental Agency from the London to the Otago police, giving a description of his person and of the offence with which he was charged, namely, embezzling from the Colney Hatch Gas Company in May, June, and August last. Other charges of a still more serious character have also been preferred against him. An officer with a warrant for his arrest was despatched from London in the steamer Keut, bound for Melbourne, on the 25th October, aod, owing j to the unusually long passage made by the j May Queen, he was enabled to reach Port | Chalmers in time to meet her at the' Heads and secure his man. I Messrs. Ord and Russell, Evangelists from | London, who have been holding a series of services in Dunedin, are expected to arrive by the Hawea to-morrow, aud will hold services here next Sunday. The time aud place will shortly be notified. The boating correspondent of tho N. Z. Times says that the Auckland four for Nelson are very highly spoken of, and that principally on account of their strength heavy odds are being laid against the Wellington crews. The _V. Z. Times of Saturday contradicts the statement that a silver cup had been given by the Union Steamship Comoany to the Wellington Regatta, Messrs Shaw and Saville having been the donors. A whale, measuring 27 feet in length, ran ashore in.Worser's Bay last Friday, and was secured by the Wellington pilot crew. A Constant Destruction of bodily substance goes on in the human system even in a state of health. This destructive process is magnified fifty fold by disease when it is so completely overbalances nutrition, that the system is speedily worn out. Kidney diseases, uterine complaints, rheumatism aud undue nervousness cause a tremendous waste of tissue. The loss of strength apd substance engendered by these and other maladies, is most effectually compensated for, by Udolhpo Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.-— Advt.