The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 216, 21 October 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1878.

There was no performance at the Circus on Saturday night owing to the heavy rain that waa pouring down. Another successful performance was given this afternoon, when there was a large attendance. To-night the troupe will make their last appearance in Nelson, when another bumper " house '' may be expected. They leave by the Wellington to-morrow for Wellington. Thk ordinary monthly meeting of the Permanent BuildiDg Society of Nelson will be held at the Temperance Hall to-night. A lecture in connection with the Y. M. C. A. will be delivered at the Provincial Hall to-morrow evening, by Mr Thos. Scott. The subject will be " Light and Color," and the lecturer's propositions and statements wili be supported by various illustrations. An entertainment of a varied character will be given at the Port Fire Brigade Hall to-morrow evening, the proceeds of wbich will be devoted to extending the Sunday School Library. The Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee has reported upon a petition from Mr Thomas Butler as follows: — " The petitioner prays for a further inquiry into the circumstances of his dismissal from the Nelson Lunatic Asylum. lam directed to report that the case of the petitioner having beea fully inquired into and reported on by a Royal Commission during last session, the Committee decline to entertain the application for further inquiry." Mk. William Austin is gazetted as Postmaster at Wakefield. The contractor for the widening of the Haven Road between the Commercial Wharf and the Naval Brigade shed finished his job on Saturday. The examination of the Hope and Ranzau schools will take place on Wednesday, commencing at 9 a.m. A tea meeting will follow in the afternoon at the Ranzau school, after which there will be a public meeting. Messrs Sharp and Pickering will offer for sale by auction to-morrow on the premises in Nile-street, at eleven o'clock, that large family residence built by the late Mayor, Mr J. H. Levien. The building is almost new, aud has every convenience, water and gas being laid on all over the premises. After the above sale the game auctioneers will offer for sale the building opposjte the City Council offices, at present occupied by the Wakatu Club, and the whole of the household furniture contained in it. Newspaper editors have been receiving a good character at the hands of one Tewsley, the acting Chairman of the Dunedin Harbor Beard. Tewsley says : — " A newspaper editor is the essence of blackguardism. I would not be a newspaper editor if you gave me £5000 a year, for it requires for au ordinary newspaper man a man who can make falsehoods appear truth and vice versa." T(tYf*}y, it may be added, is member of a Board that has been trying to work a job which bas b#e# denounced by the press. Hence theie tears. The export of gold for the fluapter ending 30th September last was 50,262 oßQcep pr the value of £198,896. This shows a very serious falling-off compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, when thp amount was 102,828 ounces, and the vsl^e £^12,019. The total export of gold fron* $ew #e-*4im£ from the lst April, 1857, to the .?oth S ( eflt,e t 9 i i*bc •**, 1878, has beeu 6s??j%j Ounces, yaju^d a,t £_i,67^1. The Custojus jrevejiue of the'colony for ,the quarter ending 30th September' was *£365,4.93, against £309,098 for the corj-espopdrng period of the previous year. The amount pbf Jecf;e<jl at Nelson was £9938; in tbe 1877 quarter .£6923. ftEj-yiABLE information upon all the great and passjrjg eyents of the day is at all times eagerly sougst, ss*d there is no one subject greater than the welfare of- tJie body. If we would preserve ourselves from -pre/nature decay, we must mark the admonishing cymptons of disease, and by timely administratis /)£ good and reliable medicine, check and ward osi $ay c/cjeness that might interfere wjth the' wonte£ course of perfect heal th. -"GhjOLjC/Ah's Great -Ij-d^ a** CpaES ," which can be had of all cli.em;*.sts, re tjbe most reliable medicines knowiu.