The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 144, 20 June 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.

His Excellency fhe Governor intends visiting Nelson for a week's efoooting. He '" will* leave Wellingtoa in the Hinemoa tO'iljorrow. In the fourth page of to-day's Issue will be found a number of interesting items by the San Francisco mail. D«, Carr arrived by the Hawea yesterday from the Soufh, where he has had a most successful season. He. will shortly lecture in Nelson and the surrouuding districts. Tim attention of cabmen is called to the notice requiring them to produce their, hack- - Bey ferriages for inspection in Trafalgarstreet bejLyirpen the hours of 2 and i p.m. ta-mprrow. The Waver]ey Assembly, >yhich had been I postponed, will be held tins eyeoijiff at the usual place and hour. '" '• ] Mn. Phice, the master of the first division of Bridge-street school, invites the parents and the public generally to be present at an examination to be held on Friday ne*fc, We have been requested to correct a' slight error which occurred in our report of the recent casualties at Grolden Bay, in which it wa? stated that the canoe, after being at first i-efyged to Elisha Ellis to cross" the Aorere river, was eventually leut to him. This was not the ease, he having taken it in spite of the remonstrance^ ( of the owner We .are glad to learn that Mrßeardojore, of Takaka, w ho was reported to be fataW injured, is in a fair way for recovery, and has been jemoved from the hotel to which he was taken .tp his home.

Owners of gardens who have suffered from the ravages of goats, which have a clever and sometimes mysterious, way- of gett\ag through and. over fences, will be glad to learn from our report of the proceedings iv Court this morning that j the police have movedin the vniatter, .several.' fines having beVn, inflicted upoa owners, of these animals\ for allowing them to be at' large.' To many of those who own goats it will, perhaps, be new to learn that to keep a goat tethered on unenclosed land is an offence under the Act, one defendant having been v;fined-forit to-day/,- ■'; NE?,soN\ticket holder? in the Art Union" ha^e not been fortunate in this year's annual distribution of prizes, Mr Stauton being the only winner, a statuette of Whittingtou Kavirigfallen to his lot. The chief prize, an oil painting valued at 400 guineas, was won by Mr C. Garrard of Wells. The half-yearly meeting of the members of the Nelson .City Itifles .was. .held last uight at M'Gee's Hotel, Lieut. Hodgson in the chair, about thirty members being present. ' The balance-sheet for the past six months, which was read and adopted, showed the affairs the Company to be in a most safisfactjdry condition, being free from debt, and; having a credit balance in the Bank. \ Thejusiial honorarium was voted to Sergeant his; services as Secretary for the-past year, t After the financial business . -Was disposed of, singing was begun, several ca'pital^.songs being given by some of the musical members of the Company. - Much sympathy was expressed with one of the ; .members inlhis severe' illness. A vote of chairman brought the meeting [ tcr.k close: -^;.- . , j :'.'" • The' promenade concept and soiree to be ' held in the -Provincial Hall on Tyednesday . evening July 4, in aid of the fnnds^of the) 1 City Cadets} promises to be a success. ' .The -concert will last'laa hour and a'jhalf, md: several well known amateurs have signified their intention of participating in'j it'^^fhe,. programme consists of comic and sentimental' songs, interspersed with instrumental music.' „:After this -is , concluded the. roob Jwiil be? 'cleared for a short time to allow of the ne-i cessary arrangements being made for holding 1 -thie ..soiree. t The hall will be decorated ; f ori the occasion, -and the music. for the dancing . wijUb be of the best description^ < „, ''.A Quadrille Assembly will beheld 1 in the? Odd-Fellows' Hall to-morrow evening. Thje prices of^ admission are fixed at alow rate, ladies being admitted to'the gallery.free of charge. These inducements will no doubt attract a large number to the Hall. Dancing will commence at eight o'clock. At the Magistrates' Court this morniug, before the Hon. N. Edwards and J. Shephard and r A. J. Richmond, Esqs., J.J.P., John Glover was charged under the Municipal by-laws with allowing two goats to graze in Gloucester r street. Mr Pitt,-for the defence, argued' that the by-laws which applied to cattle trespass did not define what.was meant by "cattle," and therefore goats could not be, included under that head. It wa9 tome that the ."Municipal Corporations Act ?' in the interpretation clause defined " cattle-' ■to mean, among other animals, goats, but the section of the Act to cattle trespass did not provide against animals " grazing " ■in the street, so that the present information could not have been laid under that clause, and consequently the police had been compelled to come tinder the by-laws, which, he contended, did not refer to goats. The Bench took a different view of the case, and fined the defendant 2s 6d for each goat and costs, 9s.— Eobert Grant, charged with having one goat tethered on an uuenclosed piece of land near Gloucester-street, was fined 2s, 6.d and costs, 9s.— Thomas Hunter, charged with tethering a goat in Gloucester-street, was fined 2s 6d and 9s costs. There were a few other informations for cattle trespass, and one or two small debt cases of no public interest. The annual soiree in celebration of the anniversary of the Wesleyan Church was held last night. Tea, which was largely attended, was provided in the schoolroom, after which the company adjourned to the Church, where the chair was taken ;by. Mr Wood. The report, which was read by Mr Hadfield, the secretary, was not of an encouraging nature, although it was stated that the proceeds of the tea meeting would leave a balance on the right side. After the reading of the reporp, addresses were delivered by the Keys J. B>;ckehhain, A. Hamilton, and J. Leighton, which we're followed by a reading by Mr Kp.se, .who also proposed a vote of thanks to the choir,, to which . Mr Garrard responded. A vote of : tbanks to ; the ladies who had provided the tea was proposed ' by Mr Hadflelil and seconded by Mr Wagg. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated one of the pleasantest and most successful meetings of the : kind ever held in Nelson. During the evening several anthems and other pieces of music were rendered by the choir in excellent style. .Eminent clergymen, distinguished physicans, celebrated chemists concur in verifying what the public long gince discovered to be true^namely, that as a remedy for general prostration, local weakuess or irregularity, chronic despondency, and as. a defence against complaints which proceed from inactivity or weakness of the digestive urinary, or excretory. organs, the restorative upon which most reliance can be piaced, is UDOLrHOjWoLFB's SCHIEDAM ABOMATIC Schnapps. — Advt.