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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 58, 8 March 1877, Page 2

The Murray is advertised to make an excursion trip to Wanganui, leaving here on Saturday, carrying passengers to the races, which are likely to prove more successful tbis year than at any previous meeting. The; Licensing Courts for Nelson and Suburban North were to have been held to-day, but owing to the temporary absence from the di ;' rict of two of the Commissioners there was no quorum, and an adjournment was made until next week. The members of the Naval Brigade will pay a visit to Motueka on Sunday next in the Aurora. They will start from their boat shed at five o'clock in the morning, and breakfast at tbe Retreat Inn, Motueka, after which they will fall in and march up to the town,' attending divine service at St. Thomas' Church. After dinner the members will make a start homewards, in order to take advantage of the prevailing wind, \vhich at the present time of the year does not last long in the afternoon. In compliance with the rules for District Prize Firing, Capt. Marshall and the two senior officers in the district have decided that the prizes shall be as follows:— Carbine Prizes £25, divided iuto one of £5 and twenty of £1 each. Infantry Prizes £13 ss, divided into one of £3 5s and ten of £1 erch. It is expected by thi3 arrangemont thafc there will be more competitors this year than on previous occasions as more prizes are offered for competition. An order by the officer commanding the district to the effect thafc the volunteers will move into camp for four days commencing on Thursday, the 29th inst., appears elsewhere. The camp, we understand, will probably be in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. Tenders for supplying the volunteers with I rations are called for, to be sent in by noon ! on Monday next. ! TnE anniversary tea party in connection with the Richmond Wesleyan Sabbath School was held in the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday last, there being a large attendance of both children and adults. Games and amusements J of various kinds occupied the greater part of j the afternoon, and were entered into with . much spirit, especially by the children who seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. At 7 o'clock a public meeting was held in the church, which was well filled, Mr W. Price in the chair. Addresses relating to SundaySchool work were delivered by the Revs. Harper, Marten, and Beckeuham, and Messrs Rose, Robsou, aud Wood. The Secretary's report showed the school to be in a prosperous condition, the scholars in attendance numbering "85 with a staff of 13 teachers. Hymns selected for the occasion were sweetly sung afc intervals, aud the meeting was brought to a close about 10 o'clock, a pleasant and profitable evening having been passed. Tub Senate of the University of New Zealand commenced its sittings to-day in the Grand Jury Room. Ifc should consist of twenty-four members, but there are seven vacancies thafc have not been filled. The following are the names of the members:— 11. J. Tailored, Esq. (Chancellor); Hugh Carleton, Esq., B.A. (Vice-Chancellor); the Most Rev H. J. C. Harper, Bishop of Christchurch; the Revs J. C. Andrew M.A., T. Buddie, W. . Johnstone M.A., and Donald M'Naughton Stuart D.D.; Messrs Jscland R. Campbell, Curtis, Fitzherbert, Gisborne! M. S. Grace, Heale, Rollesfcon, E. W. Stafford and R. Stokes. W. M. Maskell, Esq., is Registrar aud Secretary. A farewell tea was given to irr J. T. Smith in the Temperance Hall yesterday evening. The ' attendance was good, but hardly so large as had been expected. The hall was well filled afc the evening meeting, when the chair was occupied by Mr Bond' who, in a few well chosen words, presented Mr Smith with a beautifully illuminated address, signed on behalf of the Good Templar lodges by the various secretaries. Mr Smith replied in an able address, in the course of which he reviewed afc considerable length the stand he had taken on temperance matters during the fourteen years he had resided in or near Nelson. He thanked the members of the Order for the support they had accorded to him while ho had had the honor of holding the highest position attainable in the Order — that of District Deputy and craved the same indulgence for his successor (Mr W. T. Bond). Other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, a vote of thanks to the chairman brought the proceedings to a close. Mr Smith leaves for Christ church to-morrow, and will carry with him the best wishes of the temperance fraternity in Nelson, where he has devoted much of his time and energies to its advancement. A correspondent writes: — I saw in your morning contemporary the other day an account of a man living to the age of 126. The following still more extraordinary and well authenticated case of longevity taken from the January number of the New York Medical Journal will perhaps be deemed by you worthy of publication: "DrOrnstein, Surgeon in-Chief of the Greek Army, contributes the following communication (Virchow's Archiv Vol. 76), which was received by the editor of the Greek newspaper of Smyrna : — 'Our fellow citizen, George Stravarides, died to-day at the age of 132 years. Though this Methuselah led a rather intemperate life, consuming daily more than 100 drachms of brandy on the average, ho was nevertheless up to the last moment of his life in the full possession of his five senses, as also of his teeth. He was still. quite active, could sing and dance when intoxicated, and attended iv person to his occupation of baker up to the end of his days. The deceased was born in the year 1743, during the reign of Sultan j Mahmoud I, and has thus witnessed the [ reign of nine Sultans.' The reporter appends the foi lowing historical considerations: — 'In I order thafc your readers may have a deeper insight into the events occurring during the long life of this individual, I may be permitted to compare it from his birth with a few simultaneous historical events. At his j birth the Shah Nadir besieged Bagdad, lie had attained his ninth year when the unfortunate King Louis XVI was born, and was 50 years old wheu the latter was beheaded. Ho was 27 years old when Orloff burnt the Turkish fleet in Tschesme, and 31 when Sultan Abdul Hamid, father of Sultan Mahmoud 11, reigned. He was older by two

years than Gregory V, by five years than ' Ivoraes, by twelve years than Pherrian, and by 26 years than the great Napoleon.'" The kindly spirit evinced in the following from the G i ey Rivei Argus needs no comment. Even should "no practical results follow, it will be gratifying to fche sufferers by the late flood to learn that their cause has been so warmly advocated in a distant part of the colony. Our contemporary says:— We venture to suggest to fche people of Greymouth that an opportunity is afforded them of returning to others the generous charity thafc was bestowed upon the sufferers by the great flood in Greymouth five years ago. Serious as were the losses occasioned by that flood, aud distressing as were some of its incidents, the recent deluge in the Motueka district, iv the Nelson Province, far surpasses anything of the kind that has occurred here, and created loss and misery compared to which that in Greymouth may be accounted nothing. The loss of household effects, damage to houses, aud other discomforts are the most that persous residing in towns generally suffer from floods, but with a rural population engaged in the cultivation of the soil it is different, and the Motueka flood is a sad illustration of this. Here is a whole district, dotted over with small farms aud orchards, which their owners wrested from the bush thirty or more years ago, and upon the products of which they and their families have depended for-a living, swept by the devastating waters, homesteads ruined, orchards torn up, the very land itself sluiced away, and what was at one time a pleasant picture of contented rurual life, a | howling wilderness of stones and shingle, the very landmarks having disappeared in the common ruin. Surely the case of these ! unfortunate Motueka settlers is . one that | particularly appeals to the people of Greymouth, and should commend itself to public charity.' The case of the Greymouth sufferers was promptly and generously taken up all over the colony, and it would be a graceful act of Greymouth to be the first to set a similar example with regard to the settlers at Motueka who have lost all tbey possessed. • • As Means op Preventing the disagreeable and often dangerous effects produce upon the stomach and bowels by a change of water, or in the use of water containing au infusion of decayed vetgetable matter which so often produces that obstinate form of fever and ague which so frightfully undermines the constitution, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps will be found absolutely infallible ; while iv cases of dropsy, gravel obstructions of the bladder, diseases of the kidneys, dyspepsia, flatulency of age and infancy, aud general debility," ifc is recommended most emphatically by the mostdistinguished members of the medical profession. — Advt.