The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 285, 1 December 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1877.

Several telegraphic items of mail news in addition to those which we published yesterday will be found in the fourth page. In the event of theJWauaka arriving at the outer anchorage by eight or nine o'clock tonight the mails will be brought ashore and sorted at once, and the office will; be open for the delivery of letters for an hour.

We hear from Wellington that it is fully expected that the session will be brought to a close on Wednesday next. We nave to acknowledge the receipt from the publisher, Mr J. Furness, of the second number of the New Zeatander, which, in addition to other matter of a very readable character, contains the first part of a paper entitled " New Zealand History," compiled by Mr Alexander Maekay. The Wakapuaka cricketers came to signal grief yesterday in their contest with the College team, the latter scoring 84 and 122 to their opponents' 74 and 19, thus winning by 113 runs.

Mr. Eraser, the travelling agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, will deliver an address in the Spring Grove schoolhouse on Monday evening next. The Customs receipts at the Port of Nelson for the month of December were £3183 1 8s.

Mr. Harling advertises that he has been authorised to receive orders for ram lambs from Mr Braith waite's flock of Romney Marsh sheep at the Hutt. One of the rams of Mr Braithwaite'a breeding was exhibited at the last Agricultural Show at Richmond, and was awarded the first prize. The receipts of the Nelson and Foxhill railway for the four weeks ending October 30th were for passengers and parcels, £282 14s 9d; for freight, £116 10s; total, £399 4s 9d.

The members of the Naval Brigade will assemble for church parade at the junction of Russell-street with the Haven Road at a quarter past ten to-morrow morning. This will be their first appearance in their summer uniform, the hats having arrived from Aucklaud by the Hawea on Thursday last. The Blue Jackets will attend divine service at the Presbyterian Church, the Rev P. Calder being their chaplain.

A corkespondent writes to us as follows:— " Several gentlemen who have received anonymous priuted documents under the heading of "Nelson Secular Society's Tracts," beg to state that they repudiate such a proceeding as being a personal insult to the receivers, who consider them only worthy of a silent contempt for the scandalous blasphemies which they contain, more especially as bringing a disgrace upon a community in which Christian charity is supposed to prevail. If these tracts contain the programme of the supporters of the secular system of education they certainly form one of the strongest possible arguments against that system." Tremendous failure, involving the loss of millions, often occur in the financial world. Far more deplorable failures often happen in the domain of medicine, patient 9 being sometimes made' the victims of mistaken treatment. But the record of the past does not disclose a single instance of failure to cure on the part of that supremely efficient remedy for kidney and bladder ailments, dyspepsia, undue nerve excitement, and general want of strength Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abohatic Schnapps— [Advt]