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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 115, 15 May 1878, Page 2

A special meeting of the City Council was held last night for the purpose of passing the accounts. On their being laid on the tible the Mayor and several of the Councillors spoke in highly laudatory terms of the precision with which they had been kept, an*l complimented Mr li. Gully, tho Town Clerk, upon the very clear and intelligible manner in which he had presented the various statements to the Council. It was agreed to raise the auditors' fees to fGur guineas in consequence of their extra duties, consequent upon the gas and waterworks audit being added this year to the ordinary business: The next meeting will bo held on Thursday evening) the 23rd instant, Friday being a public holiday. We understand that Mr Hughes, the agent for Messrs Wright and Co.'s Americau and Australian Commercial Directory, has met with considerable success in Nelson, most of the business people here being desirous of having their names euro! led iv a work that is likely to have so large a circulation. g (Messrs. Wilkins and Cowles will giva another of their interesting and instructive illustrated lectures at tho Public Hall, Stoke, this evening, when they will doubtless have a large audieuco, as their last ontortainmont gave such unmixed satisfaction. A tea and public meating in connection with the newly formed Young Men's Christian Association will be held in the Provincial Hall to-morrow evening. The members of the Evangelistic choir are invited by advertisement to assist on tho occasion, and will meet for practice at the Congregational Church to-night. A dsputatiox of the electors of Franklyn waited upon Mr "Z> M. Luckie the other day, asking him to represent them in the Assembly, but the invitation was declined. Thb nomination of candidates for the Cheviot saat took place last week, when tte show of hands was for Mr Saund«rs 18, for Mr Ingles 8. A Napier newspaper says:— "A report is current that Sulliran, the Maungatapu murderer, has been seen at Havelock, in this Froviuce, and that he was present at the last Easter sports at Farndon." An important question and its answer. What is the best means of fortifying the system against influences prejudical to health, such as bad air, uuwholesome water, sudden changes of temperature, intense cold or heat? the rational answer is— by sustaining and increasing the constitutional and physical strength, and thus endowing nature with the capacity to resist the influences referred to. For that purpose, as well as to correct inherent tendencies to disease, UDonriio Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.— Advt