The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 299, 26 December 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878.

An accident occurred yesterday to a little girl, a daughter of Mr Ligbtfoot's, who fell from a horse she was riding and broke her arm midway between the wrist and the elbow. An inquest was held before Dr. Boor, the coroner, and a jury, on Tuesday afternoon, on the body of Edith Elizabeth Bradley, who died on Monday morning from the effects of swallowing some carbolic acid. A verdict was returned to the effect that death was caused by accidental poisoning. Our readers are reminded of the concert to be given at the Theatre Royal to-night, when Mdlle Alice Cbarbonnet, who has fairly taken the Australian Colonies by storm by her wonderful skill as a pianist, will make her first appearance in Nelson. A cricket match between the Wellington United and Nelson Star Clubs will be played at Victory Square to-day. Yestebdat, being Christmas Day, was as usual observed as a close holiday. In the morning there were the customary services m the churches, the decorations of which were characterised by an amount of good taste and elegance of design that were highly creditable to those who had bestowed upon the work the amount of labor required to produce such pleasing effects. A large number of visitors from Wellington and Marlborough arrived by the Taiaroa in the morning, and had a beautiful day for wandering about and obtaining good views of the surrounding scenery from the various vantage points by which the town is encircled. To-day i 3 also a holiday, and picnic and excursion parties have started in all directions, by water, by road, and by rail, and that at its close it will be voted to bave been a day of thorough enjoyment by all who have devoted themselves to pleasure we have no doubt whatever. A competition at big gun drill will take place to-morrow between the Wellington and Nelson Artillery Cadets, and as both detachments have heen busily practising all the week a good contest is expected. On Saturday afternoon a carbine match will be fired at the Maitai Butts between the Wellington corps and a combined team of our local Cadets. Many readers (says the Press) will learn with regret the death of the well-known brood mare Waimea. Waimea has given so many reaiiy good horses to the New Zealand turf that her death is a loss to the colony.