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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 95, 24 April 1877, Page 2

Wr are requested to state that cast off women's and children's clothing, especially the latter, will be thankfully received by some of the families settled at the Karamea. We shall be happy to take charge of any parcels, and to forward them to their destination by the first boat. The complaints that are made regarding the management of the Karamea settlement are becoming so numerous aud so pointed that the Government cannot ignore them any longer. It is only to-day that we have listened to a long story of grievances told by one of the recent settlers named Witt. We cannot publish it, but it is of such a character that even were this man the solitary complainant, instead of being one of many, an official enquiry would be rendered necessary by the statements he makes. Ov the present trip of the Albion, while between Melbourne and Hokitika, on Thursday last, a child eleven months old, sou of Mr Duncan M'Lean, merchant, Greymouth, expired, diarrhoea, it is said, being the cause of his death. A coffin was made for the little fellow, and the body carried ou to Greymouth for interment there. The half-yearly meeting of tho members of the Naval Brigade will bo held at the Custom House Hotel this evening at half-past seven o'clock. The return match between the town and country butchers will be played to-morrow at Richmond in a paddock kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Muntz. Wickets are to be pitched at 10 a.m. A farewecl tea party, to be followed by a public meeting, is to be given to the Rev D. Dolamore to-morrow evening, commencing at six o'clock. The reverend gentleman has accepted the pastorate of a Baptist Church at Caversham, in the Otago Provincial district, whither he proceeds by the Wellington on Monday next. He will be much missed in Nelson, where he has made a large number of sincere friends. Happt Valley is to be efficiently represented in the Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow morning, so that the proceedings will probably be of a more lively character than usual. Mr. Betts' house in Hardy-street had a narrow escape from being burnt down last night, when at about 11 o'clock Sergeant Nash noticed a bright flame through a window at the back of the house, and on entering the wash-house found the woodwork at the top of a copper boiler in flames, the fire having been lighted without putting water in the boiler, which became red hot and set the lid on fire. The inmates were aroused, assistance was obtained, and any further damage put a stop to by the application of a few buckets of water. „■ Everything- was so nicely arranged A Masonic festival of more than ordinary solemnity was taking place last night in one part of the Waimea, and a lecture was being delivered in another, and the special train that was to bring back the visitors from town from one of these places of entertainment was also to be the bearer of the attendants at the other. The Masons were to be the first to embark at Wakefield, and an understanding was arrived at as to the time the tram should leave. Whether they were there punctually, or five minutes before, or five minutes after the hour uamed is a matter of no moment, but what was of importance to them was that on arrival at the station they had the infinite satisfaction of hearing the engine utter a shriek as it crossed the first road on the way to town, while the dim moonlight revealed to twenty Masonic eyes a thin white line of vapour which marked the locality of the train at that precise moment It is said that Masonic signs, symptomatic of loss of temper, were rapidly interchanged the signification of which was so patent as to render them intelligible even to the uninitiated. The host of^the Forest Inn was naturally much exercised at having so many unexpected lodgers thrown on his hands, but he is reported to have been equal to the occasion. Mn. Asiiciioft delivered his lecture on " Hidden Forces " at Spring Grove last night to a large and most attentive audience, who were loud in their expressions of approbation and of thanks to the lecturer for the very pleasant evening he afforded them. The lecture, interesting in itself, was rendered doubly so by the very pleasant manner in which it was delivered, and the whole of the experiments, without a single exception, were most successfully carried out. The choir of the Wcsleyau Church in Nelson were in attendance and rendered good service by singing at intervals during the evening. The attention of the public is directed to au advertisement in another column notifying that the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company the second oldest and largest fire insurance company in England, has commenced business in Nelson, where, no doubt, it will receive a share of the patronage of the insuring portion of the community. The Austialasian of the Hth inst. has the following regarding hops:— Tasmanian hops have had a good business. Shoobridge's entire crop for 1877 (about 700 bales) has been taken up by ono buyer. Ordinary sales are making at ls 6d to ls Bd, to Is lid. Of old (1870) sales have beeu made at Is 3d. The rational public is not to be convinced by mere assertion. It wants proof. Accordingly when it learns that four thousand physicians guarantee the purity and efficacy ot an alcoholic invigorant, and sec on every hand its wonderful cures of nervous debility, kidneys and. bladder ailments, rheumatism, indigestion and torpidity of the liver, the public puts its entire faith in the article. Ihe above explains why Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam aromatic Schnapps enjoy such unbounded popularity,— Advt