The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 14 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 165, 14 July 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 14 1877.

'Up to the time of our going to press there were no tidings of the arrival of tha San Jmncisco mail at Auckland. The Customs receipts for the week ending this da# amounted to £472 2s 6d. ,Thk Secretary of the Nelson Football Club hasreceived a letter from Dunedin stating that the proposed meeting of footballers at Wellington having fallen through, a team from that city purpose making a tour of the colony, and will be willing to play her© about the second week in August. The route" chosen will be overland to Christchurch thence direct to Auckland, playing Taraaaki! .Nelson, and Wellington on the return. The brig Albion will be sold at auction by Messrs Sharp and Pickering on Monday at noon. . "• Mr. H. J. L. Atjgarde calls attention to his auction sale on Monday next, at 12-15 p m at Mr James Drew's, Trafalgar-street. "' The criminal sittings of the District Court will commence on. Monday at ten a.m. The proceedings will be confined to the trial of the two Harveys and C. K. Turner, who are committed on a charge of perjury. Ai.EcrcßEon«War, tie wed in the light of : bcnpture and Reason, with allusions to the present Russo-Turkish struggle," will be delivered at the Trinity Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening, by the Rev. P. Calder whose ability in the pulpit is well known in Nelson. The old Wakatu Hotel, with all the outbuildings, was yesterday sold by Mr Mabin, iot removal, to Mr Thomas Harley for £39 A presentation of a gold lockefc was made this afternoon hy the clerks in the employ of Messrs N. Edwards &Co to Mr William Watts, who has for nearly four yeara been a fellow worker with them in the "same office, but is now on the eve of leaving Such a pleasing proof of the regard and esteem entertained for him by those with whom he was brought in contact every day mdsfc be highly gratifying to the recipient. Ihe Blenheim Borough Council has re solved upon having a seal which is to contain in the centre the representation of a bearer 1 his, we presume, is in memory of the oid days, and of the original name of the town «m', n fc One ,, t i. me . was ahva y s kn <»wn as K ;T,he.Beaver,» .having been so called by the original surveyors, who were the first Kttropeajns to see what a (flood on the Wairau plains really meant. An inportant question and its answer Wb, at is the best means of fortifying the system against influences prejudical to health such as bad air, unwholesome water, sudden changes of temperature, intense cold or heat? The rational answer is— by sustaining and increasing the constitutional and physical strength and thus endowing nature tfith the capacifcv to Resist the influences referred fco. To fchafc 'I purpose as well as to correct- inherent tendencies to disease, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is peculiarly I adapted. — Advt. - J \