The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 279, 24 November 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1877.

The election for the seat in the City Council, now vacant, is likely to be one of the most keenly contested there has been in Nelson. Both of the candidates are on their mettle, and neither side is likely to be the loser for the want of working. An active canvass is being carried on, and the polling day is looked forward to with no little anxiety. The immigrants per Waitara for Nelson are all landed now, and farm and domestic servants may be engaged at the Barracks. They appear to ba a strong healthy class of people, and are reported to be and well conducted. Those bound for Marlborough |aud the West Coast will be despatched to their respective destinations in the Wallace and Charles Edward this evening. Mu. Herbert Roberts gave a hand-stroke billiard entertainment at the Masonic Hotel yesterday, when he played Mr A. M'Gee, giving him 250 out of 600, the score at the close of the game being, Roberts 600, M'Gee 536. Mr Roberts then performed some really wonderful feats with the balls, "a description of which to those who did not witness them would appear almost incredible. The Wesleyan Church Anniversary will be celebrated at Motueka on Monday next when a large number of ministers and f riand will take advantage of the special trip of the Lady Barkly to pay that district a visit. There will be a luncheon in the afternoon and a tea meeting in the evening. The Wanganui Herald of Thursday evening says: —The otherwise pleasant trip of the p.s. Wallace from Nelson to this port ended very sadly, for a young German missionary, but quite recently married, was this morning, while the Wallace was in the Straits, found dead in his berth. The circumstances of the case are particularly painful, for the young wife of the deceased was also on board with two other missionaries and their wives. The intelligence of her husband's death was not broken to her until the arrival of the Wallace in this port, and the unfortunate young lady i 3 now prostrate with grief. Fortunately she is in good hands. The deceased Mr H. C. Loose was in good spirits last night, and retired to rest, after thejdevotional exercises of the party of clergymen, in possession both of health and strength. Render the system diseases-proof. We earnestly recommend the inhabitants of malarious localities, persons whose occupations are unhealthy or subject them to exposure iv the open air, emigrants to sections of country recently cleared of timber, travellers and persons of feeble constitution, to protect themselves against the hurtful effects of sudden climatic changes — airpojson, tainted or brackish water, aud intense heat or cold, by a course of Udolpbo Wolfk's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — [Advt.]