The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 41, 16 February 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1877.

A picnic on a large scale is to be given tomorrow to the children attending the Church of England Sunday Schools in the town, who, to the number of between 700 and 800, will be taken by train to Mr Drager's teia gardens at Wakefield. We are glad to learn the Nelson College continues to be a favorite institution, not only with residents in Nelson, but in other parts of the colony, the number of pupils being this quarter larger than ever it was, and the whole of the accommodation for boarders being taken up. Tj4e Synod sat till 11 o'clock last night, but, there was, nothing of general interest. They will meet again this evening, for which there are seven notices of motion on the paper. We are requested to remind members that it is necessary they should all attend, as, so many having returned to their homes, there is some difficulty in forming a quorum. The consecration of the Rev. Mr Selwyn, son of the Bishop of Liehfield, as Bishop of Melanesia, will take place at Christ Church on Sunday morning. As all tte Clergy will ! be present at thi3 ceremony, the service at \ All Saints' in the morning will be held at | half-past nine, and there will be an afternoon service for children at 3 o'clock, when the Rev A. Penny of the Melanesian Mission will preach. The Ven' Archdeacon Williams will preach in the evening. For the same reason the service at Stoke will be held in the afternoon instead of the morning- ■ A dance, which was postponed from last evening, will take place in Mr C. King's As-^ sembly Room this evening, commencing at eight, o'clock. • . A meeting of the Directors of the Caledonian Society will be held at the Trafalgar Hotel this evening. , The Hart and Searell Company will make their last appearance in Nelson to-night, when there will be a change in the .programme, which will be of the most attractive character. The Post says that Mr Rives of Nelson has purchased the horses Danebury and Middleton for £1000 from Mr Bray: ' A Wretched Subterfuge. The proprietors of certain pseudo-temperance bitters declaim, with seeming virtue, against medicines containing spirits, in order to obtain a sale of their own fermented concoctions. Ask your physician whether an alcoholic basis is riot essential to preserve a liquid botanic preparation from souring, and you will receive an answer in the affirmative. This success of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps as an invigorant and corrective, excites the envy and inalace of the "no alcohol" impostors.— -Advt. . j