The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 124, 25 May 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878.

The Customs receipts for the week ending this day amounted to £672 16s sd. A RotAL salute was fired by the Artillery at eight o clock yesterday morriitigj and another at noon by the Naval Brigade from the guns on Haul-Ashore Island. Tub Wanganui papers warn their readers against certain shoddy dealers who are disposing of what looks like good cloth, but Is in reality the veriest rubbish, at very cheap rates. As these gentlemen may pay Nelson a visit it is as well that people should be on their guard against them; The traffic returns of tile' tvelson Railway |oc tU four weeks euding April 6th are as lollows :— Number of passengers, 2895; goods, 779 ton. Receipts: Passengers: £339 Jss 3d; goods, £178 4s Id; total, £517 19s 4d. During the corresponding period of 1877 the number of passengers was 4338 against 2895, and the receipts £691 against £517 but the apparent falling oif is owing to the' fact that the Foster holidays were indued in that term last year, whereas this year they fell three weeks later. The recently gazetted appointments include that of Dr Farrelle as Health Officer for the Port of Nelson u eg Dr Squires deceased; and of Mr Percy Bolland Adams as Lieutenant of the Nelson City Rifles. The total revenue of the Nelson railway up to the 6th April last was £4575 6s 6d, and the total expenditure £4471 133 id, the percentage of expenditure to revenue being 97-73. The lowest percentage of expenditure to revenue was on theChristchnrch railways where it was 70-77, the total reveuue being £204,834 7s 4d, and the expenditure £144.956 lls lid. The highest percentage of expenditure to revenue was at Wanganui, where it was 137-62. At Kaipara (Auckland) it was 132-25, at Pictou 11602, at Westport 112-17, at New Plymouth 105 92, and at Foxton 99-26. Thk Wakatipu left Wellington for Sydnoy the other day with 1000 tons of New Zealand produce on board, principally from Canterbury. Thk rational public is not to be convinced by mere assertion. It wants proof. Accordingly when it learns that four thousand physicians guarantee the purity and efficacy of an alcoholic invigorant, and see on every hand its wonderful cures of nervous debility, kidney and bladder ailments, rheumatiism, indigestion and torpidity of the liver, the public puts its entire faith in the article. The above explains why TJdolpho Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps.— Advt.