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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 171, 21 July 1877, Page 2

The Hornet says fchat if the Legislature 1 .prohibited the sale of spirits under a year; .'Old; ifc *would'do more "than any Permissive 1 Bill to put down the crime that results from! ..intoxicating drink. [■'"... '• The v ancieht maxim, Vox populi rox Dei; i was denounced vby fche Bishop of Peter- ; bojough before a distinguished congregation' t ia the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, as the' greatest lie and tbe foulest blasphemy ever .uttered. X-i...-. About four hundred square miles of country in Victoria have been traversed and' explored for auriferous deposits at the cost of fihe Government. The result; has not been successful, as very little gold bis been found. Considerable inforrnafcion .has, however, been' '- obtained- regarding the character of the soil, the geological formation, and the vegetable v 'growth an. the (Jifferent districts. ""' A private telegram from Jerilderie, New South Wales, gives a deplorable account of fche condition of the country there. The writer says:— "One station here has lost 90,000 sheep from want of food— not water — and we ran horses in that; were nothing bufc . skin and bone, though on the best pasturage in the district. This part of the country is ; in a desperate condition for want of feed, but ; we hope to have ifc in a fortnight, when the new grass springs sufficiently high." A girl has died in Edinburgh, it is snp-pos-d, from eating sweets poisonously colored. HHEMPERANCE HALL.— Mr JEFFREYS i A preaches TO-MORROW EVENING, ; at 6.30. All invited. 8201 WRITING CASES and DESKS ON SALE at R. LUCAS & SON'S. POSTPONED Owing to the Incltmency of the Weather. NELSON HOSPITAL CONVALESCENT FUND. 1.0. G.T. Dramatic Association will produce Cruikshank'a Drama entitled The Bottle At the Odd-Fellows* Hall, Ori MONDAY NIGHT NEST, in aid of the above Fund. Tickets, 35., 25., and Is. Doors open at ;-..., 7.30; commence-at 8. 3200 NOMINATED IMMIGRATION. PERSONS desirous of Nominating Relations or Friends in Great Britain for Free Passages to New Zealand are informed that fche Monthly liiat will be Closed at this Office, on fche 24th day of July instant. Nominated Immigrants on arrival in the Colony may join their friends immediately after inspection, and will n:>t be required to go into fche Depot;. Fnll particulars and Forms can be obtained from the undersigned. ALFRED GREENFIELD, Immigration Officer. Nelaon, July 20, 1877. 3202 ~"*ua«-HJ-ijM_i7'i-iaiiiiih t ii l nw»i,iiiiiriiiiiTiiiMniiM_«_Ma FUNERAL NOTICE. THE Frtends of the late MR, JOHN CARTER are respectfully informed that; his FUNERAL will leave his late ' residence, near the Hospital, TO-MORROW (Sunday) AFTERNOON, at Half-paßt One o'clock, for the New Cemetery. PARMENTER & AMOS. 3203 Undertakers. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, MANCHESTER UNITY. MEMBERS are requested to MEET at the Hall, at 1.45 p.m. TO-MORROW (Sunday), to FOLLOW the remains of their late Brother J. CARTER to the New Cemetery. 3204 B. S. CHISHOLM, N.G. NAVAL ffig£ BRIGADE. NO PARADE TO-MORROW AFTERNOON. TENDERS are required for SUPPLYING a SUMMER UNIFORM to the above Company. They must be addressed to the Undersigned, and lodged before TUESDAY, July 3 1st, at the shop of Mr D. Burn, Trafalgar street, where the Specifications and a Pattern of the proposed Uniform may be seen. W. SIMPSON, 3208—4 Secretary. G. MITNRO'S MONUMENTAL WORKS, DUNEDIN. PLANS FXECUTED for all kinds of MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, & c ., in Marble. Granite, or Kakanui Stone. Tomb Railings, &c, any design. Designs may be seea and all requisite < information obtained on application to JOHN SCOTT, i BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, t Trafalgar-st. North, Nelson, j AGENT. 3206 1