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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 239, 9 October 1877, Page 2

We are requested to state that an entertainment, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, will be given in the Public Hall, Stoke, on Tuesday, October 16, in aid of St. Barnabas' Church. Several ladies and gentlemen from other parts of the colony have kindly promised to assist. A special train will be laid on for the convenience of visitors from town. The Queen Bee Wreck Recovery Company this morning paid a dividend of £1,000, being equal to £50 per share. After reading the notice by Captain Marshall intimating that there would be a night attack some evening during the present week, the Volunteers were on the gui vive, consequently few of them were surprised when the booming of the gun from the signal station, followed by two rockets, last evening, announced that thafc was the night for the attack. In a very short time Volunteers were scan flying about in all directions, hurrying np to the rendezvous. Tho Naval Brigade very quickly got five boats ready for sea, four of them— two belonging to the Kennedy, and two to the Queen Bee— being kindly lent by J. Symons, Esq., and the other, the pilot boat, by Captain Cross. In consequence of the Aurora being k laid up for repairs, she was nofc launched. ' A detachment of the Artillery mustered at the boat landing, and very quickly shipped their sixpounder gun in one of the boats. By this time the whole of the town volunteers had arrived at the Port, but the weather, which had been threatening all the evening, grew worse, and soon a drizzling rain set in,' while the night was as dark as pitch. After a consultation between the officers of the different corps ifc was decided to abandon the intention of transporting the Volunteers to tlie Boulder Bank, but to carry out the land portion of the programme. Accordingly the Artillery gun was landed, and the Navals having been called out of the boats, the whole of the force proceeded in the direction of the Rocks, where skirmishers wero thrown out, supported by the Artillery on the left, with the iutention of repelling a supposed attack from the sea. After firiug off the alloted rounds of ammunition the skirmishers were called in, aud a start made for the town, where that portion of the Volunteers were dismissed, the Naval Brigade having fallen out at the port to attend to the boats. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before. Lowther Broad, Esq., R.M., the adjourned case from Brightwater, Walker v. Price, came on for argument. The original case was to compel defendant to maintain an illegitimate child, of which, it was alleged, he was father, but Mr Pitt raised the legal objection that the plaintiff through not having commenced proceedings within six months after the date of the birth of the child, could not recover. This morning Mr Fell appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Pitt to support the objection raised on behalf of defendant. A long argument took place, at the termination of which the Court decided in favor of Mr Pitt, and the case was ordered to be dismissed. A settled question. There are few subjects that are nofc open to debate. Captious disputant are to be found who are even prepared to prove that black is white, but there is one point so well settled that no one, except the man who denies the rotundity of the earth, will be likely to dispute it, viz., that as a general iuvigorant, a blood depurent, a. cure for sickheadache,a remedy for hysteria, an appetizing tonic ancl a mild exhilarant, Ui>opho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic ScuNAPrs is unsurpassed. — Advt.