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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 170, 20 July 1877, Page 2

, Captain Edwin telegraphs, from Wellington this afternoon as follows -.—" Watch barometer. Bad weather approaching. Any direction between south-east and eaat aud north.. Heavy sea, and further fall of barometer. Indications of much rain." Wfl have received ft_ communication from Robert Willuim Skilton.'coraplainihg that al , though he has been paying into the Motueka Lp<^ge for nearly twelve years, and'has- me v_i_. drawn .sixpence, from it, he was refused meclical attendance by the Lodge surgeon uppn-making application for it on- th© occasion of. a recent illness. For more reasons ,tnan one theletter'itself is inadmissible.. In the case of the Riwaka S. N. Company v. Fletcher for £IQQ damages on account of thej wreck of the cutter Maid of Italy, judgment was this morning given for the. defendant .withjcosts. . Mr Acton Adams appeared .for thejplajntiffs, and Mr Pitt for the defendant. .■,■.* An enquiry is being held before L. Broad Esq. r R.M., and Captain Clouston, .Nautical Assessor, into the circumstances attending thej disablement of the. brig Albion. The master was examined at considerable length thi? morning, but the evidence is not Pf any public interest. Mr Acton Adams appears for ithe Customs authorities, and Mr Pitt for the master. It being generally understood that Mr 11. i.T. L. Augarde was to appear in the Magistrates' Court this morning in the part of defendant ia an assault ca_e, there was quite'a crowd assembled at eleven o'clock. After -waiting patiently for twenty minutes while two Justices were being hunted up, the. Resident Magistrate being engaged in the enquiry into the Albion disaster, there was amsh into the building when the Magis- '■ trates took their seats on the Bench, but alasl disappointment waa in store for the audience, the hearing of the case heing postponed, on account of tho inability of a material witness to attend, until Wednesday The work of removing the Wakatu Hotel I has Jbeen proceeded with rapidly during the week, and nothing is now left to mark the spot whereon the well-known old building stood but a few heaps of bricku.

*> \ f^-^. " Wh remind our s *seaa*-_s v o£S tha entertainment tp pc &vM\t£nigbfc. % the Good lep^lar Dramatid Compan^ in aid of thej rts_l__ • ® oQv alescenfc Sand. '! „™ H&Y Barkly; whieft arrived from! Golc .en Basr late lakfc nigfit/trcought over two j Bars. 6f gold wdi^W 184 dunces, the result . ■>ot sezpik weeks'scemh^'cruahing at ibts*\ faolden {Ridge Company's mine at Anatori. In our advertising columns will be found tbe statement of receipts and expenditure of this Company for the half-year ending June 30, from which it will be seen that gold to the : value Of £1£55 -'Wafeaken out of the mine in*" less than five months.' '■'■ • y Ik view of the forthcoming election of a * City Councillor, we have been requested to publish sub-section 5 of section 42 of the Regulation of Local Elections Act," ' whiclfiruns as follows •—.*• Any, person who gives or ca^es to be,&iiren to .any elector -on -the day of polling, on account of such elector having polled or being aboui to_ poll?- any: meat, drink, or entertainment by way of refreshment, or any money or ticket to enable such elector to obtain irefreshmenfcA shall be\ liable to a. penalty • noVekceedinff twenty pounds// ' • 5 ,/' ' = ! The Postol Wednesday says :— There is" already some floating gossip as to the contemplated programme of t&6 Opposition, anf i notably the Auckland section thereof. ThU i" : w currently, stated to: be as follows :— lat.To "hangup" the Counties Aot! till next; session j and, 2nd, to endeavor totake fchrfland fund colonial property. Should the Opposition aucceed in their endeavor to make the land fund colonial property, they Twjll allow, the business of the country^ vki proceeded with as quickly as possible, hut if (.tligy.fail, they jwill go in for the ° *._£££*? ial <«.ds, and will fight the qnestion Wi6h.alithe strength they possass. Sa6hace< the current rumors, but if .the public wait a little theiy will (probably see what they Mil -see.. r .., „ rAserio'ns accident occurred k&Pit&L «^C M^-- T - I ™\ t? a S9uof_Mr A. P. Seymour. : .r*.^^particatoiwhi^lß»ve r<^M<Pn«l«£ hut meagre, bufc it appears that the hoy was - -shading with the butt of ..his gaa.restragxon* : thfe ground and his Band upon[_hJnW__k when it went off, apd. -the ! bul|et merck -through the knuckles? tearing fc^fleslf fwifiir - the fingers, and passing through the rim of v bis hat^Marlborouqh . "Mxbress^ '•-....._._: r\