The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 11, 13 January 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1879.

We hear great complaints from Foxhill with regard to the scarcity of timber trucks on the railway which is causing great inconvenience to the mill owners who frequently have to leave their loaded waggons at the station a day or two until their freights can be taken by the train. As the mills are now fully employed in cutting timber for ex portation and as some of these are three and four miles distant from the station the annoyance and expense caused by the horses and drivers having to make the double journey can easily be conceived, and it is to be hoped that the evil will speedily be remedied.

The Waimea County Council meets tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock finally to decide whether or not they will bring the whole Act into force. A large majority of the members were in favor of so doing at the last sitting of the Council, but they agreed to defer acting upon their opinions until the ratepayers had had an opportunity of expressing their views. So far these have been decidedly against the Act, although it must be admitted that on the whole the question has been treated with a considerable amount of indifference. Under the circumstances, the Council, we think, are not sufficiently supported by public opinion to justify them in adopting the Act. Mr Stevens, the Secretary to the New Zealand Rifle Association, visited the ground at Brightwater on Saturday in company with Majors Pitt and Jones, Captain Bunny and others, and expressed himself as highly pleased with the spot selected, which presents every advantage that could be wished for. The ground is dry for camping on, the range is an excellent one for any number of targets that may be required, there is the Wairoa river close by for bathing purposes, and stores and provisions of every kind are obtainable in the immediate neighborhood. The firing will commence on the first Monday in March. The number of competitors will probably be about 150, and visitors from all parts of the colony are likely to be very numerous.

The Canterbury cricketing team who re cently started for Australia full of hope and bright anticipations are not meeting with the success they apparently expected, and certainly deserved for their pluck in making the venture. By the Melbourne Club, as we heard the other day, they were beaten by 169 runs, while the South Melbourne have achieved a still more decisive victory, winning the game in one innings with 97 runs to spare. Canterbury is a great province, but in cricket it evidently is not up to the Australian mark.

" While there's life there's hope." Thi3 ia well said, for often poor sufferers from depressing maladies have been brought so low that it seemed hopeless to hope for recovery. The new medicines introduced lately into New Zealand, have worked such wonders in many such apparently hopeless cases, that they should be tried by all suffering from Rheumatic attacks, severe Gout, Liver Complaints, &c. These medicines are pronounced to be the " Wosder " of the nineteenth century, and can be had of all Chemists. Ask for " Gollah's Gbeat Indian Cobrs."