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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 212, 7 September 1877, Page 2

We regret to learn that the young lady who took the principal part in the Dramatic bociety's entertainment on Tuesday last is so seriously indisposed that the manager has been compelled to postpone the performance which it was in intended to give this evening The eighth annual report of the Mutuai Life Association of Australasia has been published. It shows that during the year 1030 proposals for £338,260 were accepted the* new premiums amounting to £12,314* The annual premium income now amounts to £34,481. Sixteen claims on deaths of assured members, amounting to £6050, were paid during the year. Tne report of the monthly meeting of the Education Board held yesterday will be found on the fourth page. Accusations and recriminations appear to have been pretty plentiful in the House of Representatives last night, as will be seen by our 1 arhamentary telegrams. The New Zealand Assembly is falline to a very low estate compared with the position it occupied among Colonial Legislatures some years &<*o "A Consumer" writes to us suggesting that the Inspector of Weights and Measures should visit the shops in the town. Our correspondent is of opinion that if he did so he would " make a fine haul." ' We understand that the Government have consented to pay tbe subsidy of £42, guaranteed by certain gentlemen in town to the owner of the Lady Barkly for her services during the search for the missing Queen Bee passengers. Tim Local Committee of Education for the town yesterday appointed Miss Chattock, of Wakeheld, Assistant Mistress of the Hardy-street Girls' School, in the place of I Miss Percival, resigned, and Miss BuckerS4Sr fc Mistress of the Ha^ de «- An earthquake would scarcely be minded by the residents of Eever and Ague localities, so used are they to being shaken up periodically. If people are obliged to live in «ucu unhealthy regions they should take the precaution to defend tbeir systems against the attacks of malaria in advance of the unheal tny season. The surest protection is a course of Udolpho Wolfk'sSchiedah Aro- \ matic Schnapps, which imparts extraordinary vitality to every organ.— Advt.