The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 293, 11 December 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1877.

Two individuals charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct were brought before the Magistrate this morning aud fined in the usual auiouut.

Acoxcejit will be given in the Public Hall, btoke, to-morrow evening. .For the convenience of visitors from town a special traiu will be laid on for the occasion. The third anniversary of the Normauby Lodge 1.0.G.T., will be celebrated this evening by a tea aud public meeting at the Temperauce Hall.

The annual sports will take place in the College grounds to-morrow afternoon. Outside competitors are reminded that the entrance to the All Comers' events is free. The pole jump will be the chief attraction! aud the Committee have wisely determined to set aside two handsome prizes for this event. Should the weather prove line there will no doubt be a large attendance of visitors. If there is time the prizes will be distributed immediately after the sports. This " Mirror of the World " was exhibited last uight at the Masonic Hall to a full house the programme comprising principally views of London, some of which were very beautiful. Instead of beiug the daubs that are only too often shown under the name of a panorama these views consist of faithful photographs which are magnified and exhibited by nieaus of the lime light, the effect being really charming. In addition to these scenes a number of sketches were shown, and these

were followed by a series of comic representations which were provocative of loud and continued laughter. The lecture accompanying the views was interesting and instructive, and afforded a great deal of information regarding the great city of London. To-night there will be shown some exquisite views of Scottish scenery, accompanied by Scotch music. We can honestly recommend the entertainment as beiug well worth a 'Visit. It really would seem that the enormous amount of shipping in the English Channel is growing too large for the comparatively narrow highway through which outward bound and homeward bouud vessels arc always passing in such large numbers. Our telegrams to-day convey the information that no less than three ships bound for the colonies, including the Celestial Queen, whose destination was Nelson, have come into collision with other vessels and been compelled to put back.

The post sessional utterances of members of the House of Representatives have commenced early, Capfc. Morris of Gisborne having addressed his constituents last night, when he spoke strongly against the Grey Government and received au almost unanimous vote of confidence from his hearers. We presume that our Nelson members will take an opportunity of meeting their constituents before the holidays commence.

Wellington appears to have the knack of sponging on the colony. On Thursday night the members of that favored city contrived to get placed on the supplementary estimates £1574 for the maintenance of College, which ought to be self supporting, aud £300* in aid of their Botanical Gardens. The membera who spoke on this latter item were not complimentary to the gardens, many of those who advocated the payment of the grant (says the Post) being careful to say that they did so merely because the gardens formed the only respectable breathing ground for M.H.R.'s, condemned for their sins to spend six months of the year in this " confounded climate" of ours, as Sir Robert Douglas politely called it.

Happy Waikouaitil The lion Captaiu Fraser delivered a short lecture in the Legislative Council the other day on the salubrity of the climate at Waikouaiti iu Otago. Hou gentlemen in the Council, he said, did not kuow anything about Waikouaiti. It would some day be the Brighton of Otago. The air was most salubrious. There was a gentleman living there upwards of eighty years of age who had recently been made a father. It was a place to which many people might go who wished to renew their vitality.

The following telegram to the Post has reference to the volcano which was reported the other day to have broken out near Auckland: — Moko Hinou i9 a small group of four or five islands about twenty-five miles due east of Wangarei Heads, eight or nine miles east of the group of rocks called the " Hen and Chickens." Some alarm aud more incredulity were excited last night in town when it was known that Captain Macfarlane and several of the crew and passengers of the Rotorua had on passing the islands seeu a cloud of white smoke ascending from tlio largest of the group in exactly the same manner that smoke issues from a volcano just about to burst forth. The column of smoke was much greater than that which would be caused by an ordinary fire. Capt. Macfarlane, his chief officer, and Captain Ross, late of the cutter Ringleader, all are of opinion that it was caused by a volcanic commotion, but it is against this theory, though not conclusively subversive of it, that Moko Hinou is not of volcanic formation. The islands comprising the group are all low ground, the highest hill not being much more than a hundred feet above the sea level. The islands are right iu the fairway of vessels entering the port of Auckland from the north.

Letters from Tasmania mention a sad accident which occured during the stay of H.M.S. Sapphire at Hobart Town. A midshipman named Rivers fell from the maiu yard, and was killed on the spot. All the balls, parties, aud other merrymakings in honor of the Sapphire's visit were postponed in consequence of this melancholy occurrence.

Female martyrs to kidney and urinary complaints are very numerous. The delicate organism of the gentler sex renders it far more susceptible to hurtful influences that the hardier male system. For the various ailments peculiar to women, as well as for the hysteria, pains iu the back and loins, and nervous debility to which they give rise, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is a potent and pleasant remedy. — fADVT.]