The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2, 2 January 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1878.

The next census is to be taken on the night of Sunday the 3rd of March. The Nelson and Foxtail railway did another good day's work yesterday, the receipts being £75. The nice little sum of £iono was run into Nelson yesterday by the horse Fir3t King, the winner of the Melbourne Champion Stakes, he having been drawn in Tonks £2000 sweep at Greymouth by Mr A. M'Gee for himself and eight others. Nelson residents have been fortunate in this respect of late, Mr Alex. Mackay having been the fortunate holder of the first prize ticket in a £1000 sweep on the Melbourne Cup. A wager of £5 was decided this morning in Mr Harley's paddock in Collingwoodstreet, Mr B O»borne,,of the Custom House Hotel, having bet Mr J, Arnold, of Waimea West, that amount that his son Edward could not clear fift. 2in at a running high jump. Like a good son Edward put the money into his father's pocket almost without an effort. Last night as Mrs Crossman wa3 walking down to the Port she was violently and indecently assaulted by a man who had been following her about for some time. She screamed out and Mr Johnson and Mr Freeman coming to her assistance the man bolted and has not since been seen, but from the description gived the police feel pretty confident of arresting him. The Lyttelton took 148 excursionists from Blenheim to Port Underwood on Boxing Day.

Several of the lunatics from the Asylum were permitted to visit the Gathering in the Maitai Valley yesterday, and upon their being mustered in the evening, one of them, Robert Sheedy, who was sent up from Reefton a few months ago, was found to be missing. Search was made without avail, but this morning Mr Smith, who lives some distance up the Valley, informed the police that at daybreak he saw a man answering to Sheedy's description passing his house on the way to the Maungatapu, The Marlborough police have been telegraphed to to keep a look out for him.

At the Police Court this morning before J. Syinons and A. R. Oliver, Esqa., J.J.P. Brdget Berry was charged with assaultiug Thomas Stringer under the following circumstances:—Mr Stringer is trustee for Mr Hunger, who is at present absent from New Zealand. Mrs Hunter, hia wife, who is now in gaol in default of a penalty inflicted upon her for keeping a house of ill fame, allowed Bridget Berry aud her husband to occupy ore of her husband's houses in Gloucesterstreet. Mr Stringer, not approving of such objectionable tenants, desired to eject them, and to effect his purpose proceeded to take the door off its hinges, whereupon Bridget buried her teeth in bis leg, and comported herself generally in anything but a womanlike manner, her husband aiding and abetting in the assault. The case against them being proved they were bound over to keep the peace for three mouths, themselves in £10 each, and two sureties in £5 each. We have been asked to draw the attention of the inhabitants of Nelson province generally to the fact that the New Zealand Insurance Company have opened a special branch under the management of Mr William Carter Webb, who is from Sydney, and has been connected with the New Zealand Insurance Company for many years past. The Company have purchased premises opposite the Savings Bank in Trafal-gar-street where every description of insurance can be treated with. The advertisement can be seen in another column. What everybody says must be true. And what does everybody say? Why, that, as a strengthener of the weak, an invigorant of the organs of digestion and excretion, solace for the aged and decrepit, as a season medicine, a remedy for uterine, kidney and bladder complaints, a protection against changes of air, water and diet, and an antidote to the {{consequences of dissipation, late hours and overwork, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps,— Advt.