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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 69, 21 March 1877, Page 2

A sittings of the District Court in its bankruptcy and probate jurisdiction will be held on Friday next at 11 o'clock. There is onejbankrupt to apply for his discharge, and a few probate cases to be dealt with. The adjourned" sitting of the Waimea Assessment Court is to be held to-morrow, at 10 o'clock, at Spring Grove. There was a noisy customer in Court this afternoon who would not be quieted except by main force. Three was the time fixed for the sitting, and as the Magistrate took hia seat with accustomed punctuality, the clock j announced that that hour had arrived, but not satisfied with this it went on striking with a persistency worthy of a better cause. By the time it had reached twenty hig Worship had assumed a mo9t severe aspect, seeing which the bailiff thought it. his' duty: to roar out " Silence in the Coort," but it was of no avail. Ting, ting, ting, went the clock, and at last the trusty Sherwood had to be despatched to quiet the offender which he did by laying on it the strong arm of the law. The officer commanding the district has had printed for circulation among the volunteers of Nelson an extract from the Standing Orders for volunteers in Victoria by Colonel Anderson. These profess to deal with such minutiae as are settled by no written law but by military tradition, and which Volunters have great difficulty in picking up. The little pamphlet, which we notice is very highly spoken of by the London Volunteer Service Gazette wiil prove exceedingly useful to our volunteers, especially that portion of it which gives the details of camp duty. The Secretary of the Motueka Relief Committee has received the following lists: Mr J. Sharp, £119 18s; Mr Buchholz, £93 18s; Mr J. Oldham, £11 2s ; Mr J. Bird £12 Is; Mr W. White, £5 8s 6d; Mr B. Condell, £6 Os 6d; Mr A. Harley, £1 15si Mr Broad £2 Is; Kev. C. 0. Mules, £25 12s ; Mr Haddow, £21 4s; Mr Gray, £18 7s 6d; Union Bank, £17 7s 6d; Mr R. Chattock, £5 13s sd: Mr O.Curtis, £21 3s; Kev. Father Garin £56 3s 6d; Rev. Father Mahoney, £29 14s' ; National Bank, £1; Mr E. Buxton's subscription, £5. Total £453 8s lid. There are still some other lists to come in. Why poison the sick with the liqnors of commerce when a pure stimulant containing vegetable agents, which endow it with extraovdinary alterative and strengthening properties, which never excites and invariably afford relief, is just as easily procured. If the patient is weak or nervous, his kidneys stomach, or bowels out of order, let him have recourse to that safest, surest, and pleasantest of regulating tonics, Schiedam Aromatic SciiNApps (Udolpho Wolfe's).— Advt.