The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 148, 25 June 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1877.

We are always pleased to record the success of those who have received their education at the Nelson College, and are glad to be , able to say that we have had frequent opportunities of doing so. The latest instance is that of J. P. Watt, of Wanganui, who waa for some years at the College, and from thence went home to finish his education. He writes to one of his old schoolfellows j saying that he is now at Highgate School, and recently was one of 600 boya who went up for tbe College of Preceptors' examination, the result being that of those who passed he was first on the list. Besides this he has. received two prizes, one for mathematics and one for general work, and three certificates. D__. Carr announces that he will give one of his interesting lectures, accompanied by new illustrations, at the Masonic Hall this evening. A meeting- of the Licensed Victuallers in Nelson is to be held this afternoon for the purpose of adopting a petition praying for the reduction of the license fees. Mkssrs Sharp and Pickering will sell by auction at the Commercial Wharf to-morrow at 3 p.m., the cargo of the schooner Reward consisting of oats, wheat, and potatoes. An enquiry into the abandonment of the brig Star of the Mersey was commenced at 3 p.m. to-day, before H. E. Curtis and A. Greenfield, Esqs., J. J.P. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the Government, and Mr Pitt for the master of the vessel. Air accident occurred in Bridge-street this morning when a horae that was being driven by Mr H. Newport shied at a dog and fell, fortunately, however, without injuring itself the driver, or cart. The third football match between the Town and College Clubs was played on j Saturday afternoon when the Town were for the second time victorious, winning by 6 to 4, points. One or two of the College Club were unable to attend whereby their side was weakened considerably. The Town and Port Volunteers will I parade for the usual monthly inspection at the drill shed to-morrow evening at half-paat seven. The following were the traffic returns of the Nelson and Foxhiil railway for the four weeks ending 2nd June :— Passengers and parcels, £301 14s 8d; goods, including among other things 307 tons freight, and 40,188 feet timber, £116 19s 7d— Total, £418 14s 3d. The following traffic returns on the railways are published in the last Gazette :— ! Kaipara and Riverhead, £255 ; Auckland and Mercer, £1,562 ; Napier and Waipukurau, £1,677; Waitaraand New Plymouth, £223; Foxton and Manawatu, £522; Wanganui and Manawatu, £32; Wellington and Mastertou, £821; Picton and Blenheim, £389; Westport and Mount Rochfort £127; Brunner and Greymouth, £497. In the latter the goods returns include 71,206 feet of timber, and 2,807 tons of coal. The Westport Tmes of Tuesday says: — A truckload of coal from the Waimangaroa ([Wellington Company's mine) was brought into town on Wednesday as a sample in advance of the first trainload to be brought down within a week or two. The following complimentary notice of Mr Gully's pictures appears in the Melbourne Argus-.— At Mr Fletcher's new gallery, late Mr Bury's, near Scott's Hotel, may be seen three water-color drawings from the pencil of Mr John Gully, of Nelson, New Zealand, who has done so much to familiarise Victorians with the magnificent scenery of those romantic islands. The one is a view of the Waimea Plains from the Dun Mountain, with Nelson and the Boulder Bank in the distance, in one direction and Mount Arthur in the other, the whole scene being sprinkled with sunshine from the rifted and shifting clouds above. In all the qualities for which this artist's work is so famous, for brilliancy of color, transparency of atmosphere, breadth of touch, and softness of tone, this landscape is only surpassed by the view of Mount Aspiring, as seen from the valley of the Matakitaki. This mountain is one of the loftiest of the Southern Alps— 9,135 feet high— and contains a glacier of imposing dimensions, the full extent of which is disclosed in the picture before us. Indeed, we have seen nothing finer from Mr Gully's easel than this masterly delineation of one of the grandest sights in this remarkable region, and its truth to nature will be recognised by all visitors to the West Coast of New Zealaud who have seen its peake and precipices glittering in the sunshine of early summer, when every mountain is garmented iv a robe o£ many colors, and the sheen of tho stainless snow has also such a dazzling effulgence as to be almost painful to the eyes. Mr Gully's third picture represents Mount Egmonfc at the hour of sunset, as seen from the bush, which forms a foreground of semi-tropical and luxuriant verdure, in effective contrast with the simple outline of the pyramid-topped mountain and the delicacy ane purity of its icy summit, standing out white and ghostlike from a sky still glowing |

with tha warmtti and brightness of the setting snn. In the management of his distances, and ih securing that harmonious graduation of color in the sky w|hich is characteristic of the hour afc which, [according to Dante, il gioenb piattgwchesi muore, Ms Gully is cer-*^ tainly peculiarly happy, and the three pictures under notice will augment his well earned reputation. Tas latest Australasian to hand reports aa follows regarding hops:— Business in hops is almost at % standstill. Tasmatuan 1877's are quoted at Is 7d to Is 8d for ordinary to good brands, and up to Is lOd is asked for Shoobridge's. In quantity we quote from Is 4-Jd to Is 6d.; 1876's are offering at Is 3d to lsj4d, up to Is 5d being asked for Shoobridge's. Kent's are little noticed; we quote Is 9d to 2s for good samples. Indolent and luxurious habits, exhausting disease, inactive occupations, old age, and other causes deprive the lining of the intestines of its vitality. When this is the case, the bowels become torpid. Slow digestion then ensues, accompanied by low spirits, loss of appetite and rest, fetid breath and dingy * complexion. No such follow, however, when the debilitated stomach and bowels are .-vitalized with Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam . Ahomatio SoawAE* ps. —■Advt.