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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 98, 27 April 1877, Page 2

The Nelson police wore to-day sworn in before the Sheriff as members of the Armed Constabulary. The tenders for the banking business of the Corporation will be opened at this evening's meeting of the City Council. High Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's Church at 11 o'clock on Sunday by his Lordship the Bishop of Wellington, assisted by the Revs. A. M. Gariu, W. Mahoney J P Chareyre, J. N. Biusfield, and N. Sauzeau' Bishop Redwood is expected from the Coast by the Charles Edward to-morrow. On Sunday afteruoon the Bishop will perform the ceremony of blessing the new orphanage for boys, and in the evening he is expected to preach afc vespers. The vestments to be worn by the celebrant and assistants afc High Mass are unusually handsomo, being after designs by Pugin, and were presented to St. Mary's Church by Bishop Redwood. Mr James O'Brien the advance agent for the celebrated troupe of Chicago Minstrels is now in Nelson making arrangements for their appearance here in the course of a week or two. They have for some time been performing with great success at Auckland and the Thames. We would call attention to the advertisement of Mr Griffiths, of Blenheim, stating thafc a sale of valuable land is to take place there next month. There was a large attendance at the fourth annual general meeting of the Artillery Compauy held at the Nelson Hotel last night, Mr Pitt in the chair. The accounts for the past year having been read and adopted, the following appointments were made for the ensuing year:— Lieut. West re-elected secretary and treasurer, Messrs Goulstoue and Watts re-elected auditors, and the following members were balloted for the new Committee, Sergt. Major Wimsett, Scrgts. Kissel and Bird, Gunners Moore and Glover, Bandmaster Oakey and Band-Sergt. Scott. . Votes of thanks were accorded to the retiring officers. It was stated with regret thafc the company had been obliged to discontinue Bandmaster Oakey's salary from December 3lst, 187G, and now he was only acting temporarily until it was seen whether some | arraugement could be come to for meeting Hie Band expenses, Ie would be a pity t) see this fine band break up which i I it will assuredly do should it lose the [ services of the bandmaster, and we understand the men have expressed their intention in thafc case of joining the company as guuners. It was decided that the dinner given by the winning detachment iv the late district prize firing should take place at the Nelson Hotel on Wednesday the 2nd of May A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.

We have received a report of the picnic given yesterday to the boys attending St. Mary's School, but it reached us too late for publication to-day, and is consequently held over until to-morrow. We (Wanganui Herald) understand that Mr E. Stent has purchased from Major Morse five thoroughbred fillies; three of them two years old, and the other two yearlings. The price given was a trifle under £500. Mr Redwood of Nelson was negotiating for the purchase, but fortunately Mr Stent's enterprise stepped in, and retained the animals iv the district. The Wanganui Hera'd of Saturday last says:— The steamer Wallace took away today two of our young settlers, who have embarked on an enterprise worthy of the true colonial spirit. D'Urville's Island, on the other side of the Straits, has been leased by Messrs D. M'Lellan aud W. Symcs. Joined iv the venture are the Messrs Cowling, who have relations iv this district. The island is owned by the natives, who had leased a portion of it to a Nelson man, but the Wanganui party have purchased his right, and secured < from the owners a lease of the remainder, thus obtaining possession of "the whole country. From seven to eight thousand sheep are at present on the island, but it is capable • by good management to carry many more. The steamer had on board a quantity of other stock for conveyance there. We heartily wish the company the best possible J success.

A well-known civil, servant narrowly escaped coming to au untimely end to-day. He was eating his lunch at midday in the presence of two or three friends when he was observed to turn pale very suddenly. Then he gave two or thr.ee gulps, and looked round in a dismal manner. Theu he began to claw the air and put his fingers do\vn°his throat, evidently reaching for something that had stuck there. His friends looked bewildered, but did not know exactly what to do, so they let him alone. At last he hooked . oufc of his throat a common pin bent nearly double. It appeared that the pin had been baked with the bread. The civil servant in question says he will change his baker. — Post. At St. Paul's Church, Dunedin, the Archdeacon last Sunday had to lament the abstraction of a pound note from the offertory bag. The negro man-servant Bogle, . so well known in connection with the Tichborne case, died shortly before the mail left England. A provincial chemist, says a London paper, has recently been applying to Mrs Bravo for the payment of the £500 reward which she offered to any one who could prove the sale of the antimony by which her husband was poisoned. The chemist in question positively states that he supplied Mr Bravo with the exact poison, and on thafc ground claims the money. Mrs Bravo's solicitor has recommendod her not to pay it, as the chemist cannot show any entry in his books of any such sale. "Atlas" writes in The World aa follows:— A member of the suite of the Prince Imperial, named Philon, who, in common with most exiled Frenchmen, appears to have been very hospitably received in England, has profited by his opportunities in a manner not usually considered in accordance with good taste. He has drawn some pictures of us which are not at all flattering, and which I would fain believe are not halftrue, in a volume recently pulished, more for the amusement than for the instruction of his countrymen. He was invited to a messdinner, and this is how he describes, or rather caricatures it, while scarcely taking the trouble to conceal the names and position of his entertainers-.—" The colonel who presided enjoyed a magnificent military reputation. He had never gone through a campaign; but he had highly distinguished himself year by year at the autumn manoeuvres, aud he had once had a horse killed uuder him with fatigue." When he rose to propose the first toast you might have thought there was fury in his glare; but no: it was only his way of putting ou a look of dignity. In the intervals between the toasts the band played the "British Grenadiers," "Rule Britannia," and fche equally famous air, "Eataius never will be slaves." This, of course, fired the company with military enthusiasm. "A lord, who had beeu afc Toulouse and afc Waterloo, declared that the 21sfc Dragoons would never suffer England lo be invaded. The words were loudly applauded, and his Hearers swore to exterminate the enemies of Great Britain in every part of the world." Afterwards they all went to the Casino. And thus history is written— for the Boulevards. A party of young men dined sumptuously at a restaurant, aud each one insisted on paying the bill. To decide the matter it was proposed to blindfold the waiter, and the first one he caught should pay the bill. He has not caught any of them yet. The other day at the Middlesex Sessions, Mr Sergeant Cox remitted punishment in the case of a youth charged with attempting to obtain property by -false pretences, on condition that his friends sent him to New Zealand, "where he had relations well to do." The proposed yachting voyage round the world says " Atticus " seems likely to be a success, the number of applications for berths in fche Sumatra being already unexpectedly numerous. Probably less than 150 will bp found sufficient to constitute a quorum. I heard that Sir G. Nares was asked to take the command of the Sumatra; but, not unnaturally, he refused. There has beeu a mild sort of revolution at the Junior Athemeum Club. It seems that a certain Japanese, by name M. A. Haphisaki, and calling himself " Prince of Awa," has put up for membership. If the " heathen Chinee" himself had been proposed with three stacks of cards tucked up his sleeve, there could not have beeu greater consternation. It was clear that a Japanese invasion was threatened; " Prince " Hachisaki would at once introduce Japanese manners and customs, and as many of his countrymen as he could collect, into tho club. A grand remonstrance was drawn up, and signed by about forty members. For days there was no peace at the club, owing to this confounded Japanese. Last week he was elected, and great was the indignation amoug the AntiJaps. But if I wore asked why a Japanese gentleman should not be likely to be as inoffensive a member of a club as a blathering stockbroker, I declare that I could conjure up no good reason.—" Atlas " in The World. A writer iv the Journal or Chemistry thus refers to the medicinal use of celery:—" I have known many who, from various causes, had become much affected .'by nervousness, and who, by a moderate daily use of the blanched foot-stalks of celery as a salad, became as strong and steady in limb as other people. I have known others so nervous that the least annoyance put them into a state of agitation, and they were in constant perplexity and fear, who were also effectually cured by a moderate daily use of blanched celery as a salad. Everybody engaged in labor weakening to the nerves should ues celery daily in the season, and onions instead when not in season."

Amongst other items of rtewsby the San v Francisco mail, more or less! improbable, is the following:— "Ml -Bourgoing, the French envoy, had a stand-Up fight with Edhem Pasha. Bourgoing taking.' offeriqe afc t]hc language of the iTurk', is alleged* so far to have forgotten the dignity of his situation as 1 to grapple with Edhem Pasha, who thereupon drew his scimitar. This naturally created the greatest consternation among the diplomats, until Chaudordy rushed forward and pulled back his colleague by the coat-tails." Quite an extensive business ia done by Belgians smuggling tobacco across the border into France by means of trained dogs, who., are intelligent and swift-footed. No fewer than 87 marriages took place in Dundee on the 1 6th December last. I Tho Rev Mr Stanford, preaching at AU Saints' Church, Dunedin, last Sunday night, strongiy denounced the practice of the j Banks keeping their clerks working late at j nights, alleging that much mischief was caused by it. Referring to the appointment of Bishop Selwyn, the Home News says:— lt will be no easy task, especially for a man of only thirtytwo years of age, to take the place of Bishop "Patteson. Thafc prelate falsified, bofch by his life and death, a rash and foolish saying of a man otherwise just and temperate. We refer to the late Sir James Stephen, who once stated that the Reformed Church of Englaud could not produce saints. Patteson deserted all his prospects of fame in Englaud, though he might, had he chosen, have indulged in a refiucd arid distinguished academical life until the. end of his days. Fellows of Oxford Colleges have strange and divergent destinies. Manning and Patteson were both Merton men. The former has attained the Roman purple, the latter endured a baptism of blood at Santa Cruz. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Jewish Synagogue in Albert-street, Melbourne, was performed on the 20fch ultimo, by the president of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Mr H. J. Hart, who, in tbe course of his speech, referred to the eminence attained by men of the Jewish religion in the United States aud in other countries, ard said that in New South Wales, Saul Samuel had held fche post of Treasurer, and had been decorated by Her Majesty with the order of St. Michael and St. George; while, belonging to New Zealand, there was Sir Julius Yogel; and in Victoria there was the Hon. Edward Cohen, who had filled the hororable position of Commissioner of Custom-, and had always taken au active part in every matter appertaining to religion, education, or social progress. The berry of the well-known native shrub, known to the natives as Taupato, and to botanists as Coprosina baueriana, is likely to become a rival to the finest Mocha coffee. The discovery was accidentally made by Mr J. C. Crawford, of Wellington, who had some of the shrubs growing for shelter purposes. Knowing that the coffee- -shrub, Coffaa Arabica, belonged to the same natural order of plants Cinchonaceti as the Coprosina it occurred to him to grind the berry of the latter after treating if in the same way as the coffee berry or bean is treated. The result Was a powder, which produced an infusion equal in richness of flavor and aroma to the finest coffee Drocuaabie in Wellington. The subject is now engaging the attention of a good many people in various parts of the colony, and if the results generally obtained equal Mr Crawford's, the probability is that a new and large trade will be opened in New Zealand. The shrub grows in the colony luxuriantly, is quite handy, and bears berries in great abundance. Should the flavor of the infusion of the powdered berry be found to be generally equal to the coffee beau, machinery will soon be adopted 'for stripping the hard ; kernel of its fleshy covering, and thus render the Taupato shrub available for export. We learn on good authority from Rome that the young Prince Louis Napoleon-has been initiated by Prince Humbert iuto the mysteries of Italian Freemasonry. The Pope is very dissatisfied with the conduct of the ex-Empress Eugenic and of her son. Pius IX had advised the young Prince to quit Italy as soon as possible. This judicious advice, however, has not beeu followed; on the contrary, the i-mpress has been very assiduous in her visits to the Quirinal, and is in constant intercourse with' those of the noble families in Rome who are partisans of King Victor Emmanuel. For these reasons the Pope refused to dispense with his own hands the Holy Communion both to the Empress and the Prince. As the Empress Eugenie's request' was made to him the Pope said, " Anche, l'altro prose la Sante Comuuione a Saute Anna dorata." By the "other" the Pope meant Napoleon 111. The Pope held up as au example to the Empress and the Prince the conduct of Don Carlos, who, ou his recent visit to Rome, sought the Apostolic blessing, and on advice at once took his departure from Italy.— Westminster Gazette.