Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 294, 13 December 1877, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1877.

Manager Smytiie arrived from the West Coast this morning to prepare for the advent of the Rev. Charles Clark, who will give his opening lecture in the Provincial Hall, on Saturday night. " Oliver Cromwell, or Bible and Sword I " which has excited uuiversal enthusiasm wherever ib has been given, will be the subject. Ax the Police Court to-day, Mrs Hunter, charged with keeping a house of ill fame, was fined £5, or in default to be imprisoned for a month. At the special request of the Rev. Father Garin St. Mary'3 Schools were visited on Monday by Mr Larnach, who kiudly presented a cheque for £10 to be expended upon prizes. We have been requested to state that the result of the examinations for the Provincial and Governors' Scholarships, at the Nelson College, will not be made known for about six weeks, as the papers are not yet in from Marlborough and the West Coast, and one of the examiners is about to leave Nelson for a time. .A meeting was held at the Trafalgar Hotel last night for the purpose of taking steps to get up a regatta on Boxing Day. Mr C. JS. Bunny was voted to the chair, and it having been decided to hold a regatta, Captain Cross was appointed Commodore, and Mr A. J. Richmond Vice-Couituodoce. the iollowing gentlemen, with power to add, to tneir number, being appointed a Committee: — Messrs Bunny, Bannehr, Boulton, Crewdson, Cross (2), Disher, Gay, Elowerday, T. Harley, Levy, Lukins, Naylor, Nicholls, Osborne, Taylor, and Voung. Mr Boultou was appointed Secretary, aud Messrs Crewdson, Gay, T. Hurley, Nicholls, West, and Wyraond were invited to canvass the town for subscriptions. It was decided that the following should be the programme: -First Class Open Sailing Boat; Wtialeboat; Volunteer Whaleboat; Coasters; Second Class Open Sailing Boat; Four-oared Inrigged Gig; Volunteer Cadet Race; Dingy Kace; Waterman's Race. Messrs Levy, Naylor, Lukias, and Young were appointed a Sailing Committee, and the meeting then adjourned until next Monday. To attempt to describe the beautiful scenery shown at Mr Clifford's panorama would be useless, but we would assure our readers that those who do not visit it will be depriving themselves of a real treat. Tonight the second series of Scottish views will

be exhibited, concluding with photographs of statuary and some very amusing representations. One of those which was shown last night was a very lively skeleton, whodanced in the most delightfully airy manner, and every now and then astounded the audience by taking off his head and carrving it in his hands for a time.

The members of the Naval Brigade proceeded by train to Wakefield yesterday for the purpose of firing the conqueriug match with the Normanby Hussars, whom they beat by 18 points, the scores being, Navals 379, Hussars 361. Another match at long ranges then took place, when the Blue Jackets were again victorious.

A skcli, trephined with a pickaxe cannot be mended, but the head-splitting headaches provoked by a disordered stomach can be permanently cured by soothing the great sympathetic nerve which connects the gastric organ with the brain. Materia Medica affords no corrective of disturbances and weakness in the abdominal region, no eradicant of auy of the causes productive of brain and nerve excitement, more reliable thanUDOLpHo Wolfe's Schiedam Abohatic Schnapps. — [AavT.J