The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 102, 2 May 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1877.

■ 4; • V"*,' "",.• " ~ —^ — ""• — :r-r-" * — \ A.R. OliVeX Esq. was this Woraiug sworn irfas a Justice of the Peace of the colony. The celebrated troupe of Chicago Ministrels who bave made so successful a tour of New Zealand are to appear in Nelson on Monday and Tuesday next. At Wellington and Christchurch they performed under the most disadvantageous circumstances, Mrs Scott-Siddons and the Lingards being acting at the same time in both those places, and yet the Ministrels succeeded in attracting crowded audiences, a fact that speaks volumes in their favor. The annual dinner of the City Artillery Company takes place at the Nelson Hotel this evening. Tue Caledonian Society's annual dinner will take place at the Trafalgar Hotel tomorrow evening when the chair will he taken by the Hon. T. Renwick, the Vice-President, who iu the course of the evening will present the Society's silver medal to Alexander ..Wilkie, Edmund* Parker, and William Henry Jones, for courageous acts performed by ■ them in saving life during the "Motueka flood. The gallant conduct of these young men was such that we -have no doubt that if the- matter was properly presented to the . Humane Society they, would have no hesitation in! awarding to them, their medal. - An enormous skate measuring close upon ; three ieet across the b&ck, and weighing nearly loOlbs, found itseM oat of ita element "this raoru)ing, being left Jhigfc and'dryjnear the harbor works where it was seen by |some of ; the workman and speedily despatched with the aid^of picks and shovels. --It is now 'on^ie'w ,'at' Mr. Purser's oyster Tsalo^n in -Trafalgar-street. ' [ ..1 . ~. r \ ~. Our telegrams report, the result o. the action! Russell y. Smy-hies at Dunedin. Some eight or nine years.ajgo! Mr Russell, an old Otago settler, brought an action against - Mr Sriiyth.es : who had previously :been his solicitor, and in. his evidence made certain statements for which Mr Sraythfes subsequently prosecuted him for perjury, but the jury acquitted him. On account Of this he l -recently brought an action against Mr Smythies for malicious prosecution, ; and as our telegrams state, recovered damages. to the extent of £200. ' A skull trephined with a pickaxe cannot he mended, but the head-splitting headaches provoked bp a disordered stomach can be permanently cured by soothing the great sympathetic nerve which connects the gastric organ- 1 with -'the' brain. ! Mater ia^ Medica affords no correction of ,, -disturbances and weakness in the abdominal, region, ,no eradicani; of any of the causes productive' of braio andjnerveexcitement, more reliable than Udolpho Wolfe's 1 Schied. m Aromatic SciiNAPrs.-T-Advt. "•-■ -— ._ _■