The Nelson Evenign Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evenign Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1878.

The news from Europe which we publish to-day is again of a disquieting tendency, Russia appearing to have decided not to submit the question at issue to the proposed Congress. The despatch of troops from India to Malta looks as thongh, in spite of the pacific assurances made at the Easter adjournment of the Parliament, the Ministry is by no means confident that war is to be averted by diplomacy. It is also clear that if England should be dragged into war she means to be in a position to strike both hard and quickly. We remind our readers of the Christmas Tree which will be exhibited at the Provincirl Hall to-night. An improvement has been made in the arrangement of the Hall this year, the Tree being in the centre, so that all the ticket-holders may be near when the, 600 prizes with which it is literally crowded are distributed. Refreshments of all kinds will be provided in the Grand Jury room. The doors will be opened at seven, and the distribution commence as soon as the tickets are disposed of. The settlement in connection with the Great Autumn Handicap sweep will take place at the Thistle Inn at nine o'clock this evening, Our College lads appear to have been unfortunate in the weather on their visit to Wellington, where they were anxious to try conclusions with tho cricketers of the Wellington College, and particularly as they felt pretty confident of, being able to give a good account of their opponents. A later telegram states that they gave the Wellington Collegians a tremendous thrashing. The Right Rev. William Garden Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, has been gazetted honorary chaplain to the Auckland Artillery Volunteers. Owing to the continued drought the railway guards have to carry water from Napier to supply the ihland stations. The artesian wells are drying up, and there is no sign of rain. The man who laughs is the fortunate individual who sleeps soundly, for whom " good digestion waits on appetite," and whose nerves never trouble him. Happy he or she who is thus trebly blessed. When refreshing siumbers fail to visit your pillow, when your food tortures instead of benefiting your when a sudden noises or the least excitement sets _our nerves in a tremor it is high time that you resorted to a remedy. You will certainly and it is Udolpho Wolfe's Schieijam Aromatic Schnap _ s. — Advt.