The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 117, 19 May 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1877.

The San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland at one p.m. to-day. Oor London telegrams dated Thursday inform us that the Russian head-quarters I i have been removed to Ploveste, which on reference to Johnston's Gazetteer, we find to be a small town of 3000 inhabitants in Wailachia. It appears that the accounts of tt c repulse of the Russians with heavy loss at Batrun (not Batoura as formerly Jatated) are j confirmed. Batrun is a small seaport town j in Asiatic Turkey. Where " Sukhuin Katch " 13 which has been bombarded by the j Turks, '.we have been quite unable to find out. The telegram states that there has been heavy fighting with serious loss, but omit 3 to mention where, which perhaps, is just as well, as in all probability the name of the place would be so mangled on the wires as to be unintelligible on arrival here. We have received from Wellington the following crumb of comfort for those who ! like wet Sundays:— "Captain Edwin reports: I There are indications of the (glass falling | i considerably still, and winds strong in any direction between north-west and south- ! west." | ; An Assembly is advertised to take place i I at the Odd-Fellows' Hall on the evening of , the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday. \ j The admission for gentlemen is fixed at ss, ' ; while the ladies will be admitted free. The charge for spectators will be Is. With such I inducements as these no doubt the Hall will be well filled. The Customs receipts for the week ending | | this day amounted to £469 0s 4d. j Sermons in connection with the anniversary of the Wesleyan Church in Nelson will be preached to-morrow morning and evening j by the Rev S. R. Purchon, who has recently arrived from England. A most interesting address on the temperance question was delivered in the Temperance Hall last night by Mr Gilbert, who has lately arrived from the .United States. At the close of the lecture a vote of thanks was carried by acclamation, and it was stated that he might probably deliver another in the course of a month or ss. As the time draws near for the holding of the Volunteer Ball, the more rapidly are the tickets being disposed of, and there is every reason to believe that the attendance will be far larger than on. any previous occasion. A number of the Nornianby Hussars are expected from the country, and the Blue Jackets from the port, it is said, will muster in full force, and together with a fair sprinkling of the town volunteers and general public will give the ball room a gay appearance. Refreshments on a liberal scale will be provided, comprising all the delicacies of the saason. A capital programme has been prepared, and the music will be of the rery best description. The Hall will be profusely decorated for the occasion, and nothing will be left undone which will tend to make the ball a success The Committee have decided to close the galleries, so that the objections raised by those who go below to dance at being stared at by an admiring crowd in the gallery will not hold good. Tub Provincial Hall was crowded to excess last night with several hundreds of eager youngsters, and a goodly number of adults the occasion being Mr Severn's last lecture' but one, the subject of which was " Galvanism and Electricity." The audience was most attentive throughout, and appeared to be speciall/ delighted with the beautiful experiments that were so successfully made The administering a shock to a ring of about fifty boys gave rise to shouts of laughter, varied by an occasional scream, but on the whole it appeared to be so attractive that at their special request the experiment was repeated upon a circle of young ladies with a similar result. The last lecture of the series, on " The solar system," will be delivered tonight. The thanks of the large crowd of boys and girls who have attended these interesting lectures, and also of their parents, are due to the College Goveraora for having made the necessary arrangements with Mr Severn, .is well as to that gentleman for the pleasant rnanm r in which he has adapted the lectures to his audience. The privileges connected with the racea on Thursday next were disposed of to-day for £21, the principal item being the gate which realised £16 ss, There was no bidding for the licensed victuallers' booths. It is not often that dignitaries of the Church are given to exclamation, but we understand that on a recent occasion when crossing the Rai saddle, one was heard to say " Ma Foil is this the top already?" Readers

of the engineering reports of last session will understand the allusion. Mr George, the manager of the Welling- j ton gasworks, arrived by the Taranaki this j morning, and will spend a week here in i endeavoring to discover the reason of the large loss of gas tbat takes place in the Nelson service. Ax the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning before A. Mackay, Esq., J.P., W. Brown was charged under the Vagrant Act with having no visible means of support. He was discharged with a caution Johnson aliai Speckraan, alias Lonson, was sued by W. R. Parmenter for £3 15s for board and lodging, and ordered to pay by next Saturday, and in the meantime to find a surety. A large picture of Milford Sound, by Mr Gully, was disposed of at Wellington on Wednesday on the Art Union principle. There were 100 members at £1 each, and the fortunate winner was Mr J. M'Dowell. Supposing that the tidal wave, which visited New Zealand on the 1 Ith instant, was occasioned by the earthquake that destroyed j Iquique, aud assuming that it travelled with the same velocity as the wave of 1868, Dr. Hector calculates that allowing for the difference of time, the earthquake must have occurred about 5 p.m. on the 9th inst. A very distressing and fatal accident has occurred in Marlborough. It appears that I on Monday laast Mr Barclay, proprietor of the Awatere Hotel, had a large boiler of water on the fire, when two of h ; s children, j aged three years and eighteen months respectively, contrived by some means, without being seen, to capsize it. The poor children were scalded very badly, and only lived some few hours after the accideut. Ik there is any truth in the belief that those who suffer greatly in this world will escape scorching iv the next, then will the victimsjof rheumatism assureidy be unscathed by the eternal fires; for to nothing short of martyrdom at the stake can their tortures be adequately compared. Dyspepsia aud urinary diseases, especially gravel, also inflict unspeakable misery. Eradicate the causes of those sufferings with Udolfho Wolfe's Scuiedam Aromatic Schnapps.— Advt.