The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 265, 8 November 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877.

To-morrow being a public holiday, the Mail will be published at 10 a.m. To-morrow will ba observed as a pnblic holiday at the Poat Offices. A nombkr of steerage passengers bound for Greymonth were brought on here by the Albion, and have been left iv a penniless condition, being merely provided with tickets by the next boat to their destination. Finding themselves in this awkward position, they were compelled to apply to Mr Greenfield, asking him to provide them with board and lodging in the meantime. Why the onus of keeping these passengers should be transferred from the Company that had undertaken to land them at a certaiu port to the Government it is difficult to understand, The members of the Naval Brigade will pay a visit to Motueka to-morrow, leaving he,re at seven a.ra. in tha Aurora, which haa lately been repaired, aud is now in thorough sea-going order. On arrival at Motueka they will march up to the town, and dine together at the Motneka Hotel. After dinner those who are going to take part in the cricket match will don their fancy costumes at the Institute, where the procession will ieave for the scene of action at two o'clock. The following characters will be represented: j Hobart Pasha, FlufEendorf Esq., Cuffee, Paul ! Pry, Joe the Marine, Old Mother Gum, Miss , Gum, Sambo, Pioughboy, Salamander Sam, Keewaygooshturkumkangewock, Jack Rag, Bobby, Landlord, and Toby Tooralloo. In the evening a concert will be given in the Institute, and it is intended to wiud up with a ball. The Aurora will return to Nelson on Saturday afternoon in time to take part in the procession at the opening of the boating season. All the necessary arrangements have been made for to-morrow's Agricultural Show, and an unusually large number of visitors are expected to be present. Farm stock of all kinds will be well represented, and for the dog show the entries are very numerous, including several greyhounds. There will be sports during the afternoon, which will prove attractive for those who care more for a day's outing and amusement than for matters agricultural or pastoral, so that all who attend may make sure of spending a pleasant holiday. Beekeepers will do well to visit the ground as there will be exhibited a patent beehive recently brought here from America. It is called the Canadian beehive, and is considered the best hive ever invented, as by it the old-fashioned and barbarous practice of destroying the bees to take the honey is entirely superseded, and the beekeeper gets his honey and also saves his bees for another season. The hive also embodies very many excellent ideas, by which the apiarian has perfect coutrol over his bees, and the largest' possible amount of honey is secured. The promoters of the sale of work iv aid of the Congregational Church must have been gratified by the number of visitors who attended the Temperauce Hall during yesterday afternoon and evening, while the visitors could uot fail to be equally satisfied with tha large assortment of useful and ornamental articles that were offered to them at most reasonable prices. The lady stall-keepers had a busy tjme of it, and will be pleased to see as large an attendance to-day as there was last night. The Lady Barkly will make an excursion trip to Motneka to-morrow, leaving here at B*3o a.m., and returning at 9 p.m. As there is every promise of the weather being fine, no doubt a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity to take a trip across the Bay. There will be a quadrille assembly at the Odd-Fellows' Hail to-morrow evening, to which the charge for admission will be five shillings. A dance will also take place at Mr C. King's Assembly Room, admission one shilling. Dancing at both places will commence at eight o'clock.

The Christchurch _".-«_ in noticing Mr Collins motion in the Nelson Diocesan Synod for admitting Maoris to that body says: — •It was fiually agreed to request the Bishop to facilitate the representation of Maoris by forming parochial districts of the localities in which they reside, and it was suggested that Wakapuaka should be one of these. Should the Bishop see fit to do so, Wakapuaka will be doubly distinguished, by communication with the world by electric telegraph aud Christian sympathy. Eminent clergymen, distinguished physicians, celebrated chemists concur in verifying what the public long since discovered to be true; namely, that as a remedy for general prostration, local weakuess or irregularity, chronic despondency, and as a defence against complaints which proceed from inactivity or weakness of the digestive urinary or excretory organs, the restorative upon which most reliance can be placed, is Udolpho Wolfe's Scuiedam Aromatic Schnapps,— Advt.