The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1878.

The annual sale of work, and Sunday school tea party;, are to be held at the Motueka Institute, on Easter Monday, when, the Lady Barkly will make a special trip, leaving Nelson afc 9 a.m., and Motueka on the return at 9 p.m. A sermon in connection with the Nelson School Society will be preached in the Bridge street schoolroom to-morrow afternoon, by the Rev. R. Bavin. The thirty-fourth anniversary will be celebrated by the usual tea-party and public meeting in the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, The annual Ohristmas Tree in connection with Christ Churcn will be exhibited at the Provincial Hall on "Wednesday evening next, when the prizes, most of which have been specially imported from England, will be both valuable and numerous, over 500 having already been ticketed. There will also be a curious dish known as a " bran pie," but lest this should not prove sufficiently satisfying to those of the visitors with good appetites, refreshments, including oysters and porter, and numerous other seasonable delicacies, will be supplied in the Grand Jury room at moderate rates. There will be music and singing during the evening, commencing as soon as the prizes from the Tree have been disposed of. The annual tea-meeting in connection with the Wesleyan Church, Spring Grove, was held yesterday, and notwithstanding the boisterous state of the weather a number of friends from town and other places assembled at the church to partake of the good things provided by th£ ladies of that district. After tea a public meeting took place, Mr "Wratt in the chair, when addresses were delivered by the Eev. W. Rowse and Mr Langford. Thhbe will be the usual Easter offering in all the English churches in the diocese tomorrow, when the amount in excess of the average offertory will be presented to the lucumbents of the respective parishes. Several of the churches both in town and country were yesterday draped witb black as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Bishop Selwyn. Chables E. Haughton is suing the proprietora of the Otago Daily Times for libel. If the case ever gets before a jury, there may be some startling disclosures made. Over 13,<i00 people visited Cooper and Bailey's circus and menagerie in Wellington, and the receipts amounted to about £3000. A Paper condemning the practice of offering wine or spirituous liquors at the funeral was read in some of the Dunedin churches on a recent Sunday.