The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 224, 21 September 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877.

On the enquiry into the death of the late Dr Bligh beiug resumed yesterday evening, Mr E. Prichard, chemist, deposed that on xVlonday fche deceased sent his boy for an ounce of hydrocyanic acid and half an ounce of trisnitrate of bismuth, which were forwarded to him. Dr Boor, recalled, said that a sufficient dose of prussic acid would cause death in two seconds, but under these circumstances the odour would ba detected iv the blood. He felt positive that the deceased did not take a fatal dose of prussic acid, but believed that death was the result of a shock to the nervous system. This closed the evidence, and the jury after a few minutes consultation found the following verdict :— '• That the cause of death was paralysis of the heart, produced by a sudden shock to the system." Readers of the Daily Times will be glad to learn from a paragraph that appears in this morning's issue that in future notices appeariug in that journal are to be worded in the simplest of language. In other words our brother journalist intends henceforth to call a spade a spade, and will not again apply fche term "refectory" to a ballroom. We congratulate him on his determination to reuder his paragraphs more intelligible, and ourselves upon having been the means of bringing about the much needed improvement. The good people of Auckland having at last supplied themselves with a decentwater service were agreeably surprised last 'night to find how efficacious ifc is in case of fire. A telegram elsewhere enters more fully into details with which residents in Nelson have been familiar for the last ten years. Scarlet fever, we are informed by our telegrams, is spreading fast iii Hokitika, and has carried oft' several chiidren. Communication between Nelson and that port being frequent it would be well if the Board of Health were to adopt precautionary measures to prevent (he introduction of the dreaded disease into this town. We understand that a son of the late Rev F. C. Simmons was a passenger on hoard the ill-fated ship Avalanche, being on his way out to join bis mother and family at Wanganui. Tue Golden Ridge Company at Anatori sent over by the Lady Barkly last evening another nice little shipment of 230 ounces of gold. We congratulate this plucky little Company upon their continued and wellearned success. Tue monthly inspection of the Naval Brigade will take place to-morrow afternoon, when they will proceed across to Haul-ashore' Island for the purpose of having some big gun practice. Tue mother of the boy Spier who was brought up on a charge of stealing the other clay and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, writes to say that she wishes her friends and the public to know thafc her sou is quite innocent, &c. We canuot open our columns to letters of this description. Two men were brought before the Magistrates this morning charged with drunkenness. One was fined in the usual amount and the other discharged. ' In another column will be found an advertisement summoning the Catholics of Nelson and the country districts tounite with their coreligionists in other parts of the colony in signing a petition, the object of which is as follows:— "That no Education Act can prove satisfactory and efficacious that does not embody the principle that all denominations of Christians aud other religious denominations shall be entitled to aid from the public funds towards the maintenance of their owu schools, such aid to be in proportion to the results in reading, writing, arithmetic, and other secular subjects.— That it is fche duty and the interest of the Government to encourage aud help the various denominations to establish schools; and that the Government should not itself establish purely secular schools, except as supplementary to denominational and private schools, which latter ought also to be encouraged by payments for results." The most delicious dainties are regarded with indifference when the natural sauce ptqiiante appetite is wanting. Eating, with those who are never hungry, is a mere mechanical performance, nofc a source of en-

joyment. Such persons are, therefore, greatly to be commiserated. They seldom or never enjoy vigorous health, usually suffering from a want of tone and imperfect digestion. This want may, however be amply supplied by that splendid appetizer, Udolpho Wolfk's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.— Advt.