The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 18, 21 January 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879.

An address from Mr Pitt to the electors will be found on the fourth page of to-day's issue. The anniversary of the Congregational Church will be celebrated by a tea and public meeting this evening. Mr Verb Bogle, a resident on the Waimea Road, was this morning found dead in his bed. It appears that he had been drinking heavily for some days, and wa3 being attended by Dr. Marks for delirium tremens. Last night he went to bed rather late, and was heard by his wife to get up twice during the night, and this morning about 4 o'clock she turned ronnd and looked at him, and found that he was dead. Dr. Marks having given a certificate as to the cause of death, no inquest will be held. Mr. Pitt's Committee held their first meeting last night in the rooms next to the Colonial Bank. lately occupied by Messrs Sharp and Pickering, when arrangements were made for a complete canvass of the town. Mr Pitt invites the electors to meet him in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening next. A meeting of the members of the Tradesmen's Athletic Club will be held at the Gymnasium this evening. Miss Amy Sheswin arrived from the South in the Taiaroa this morning, and will give the first of her concerts to-morrow evening. The Attlbournt Argus, in criticising her first performance in that city, wrote

as follows of this gifted young lady :— "Miss Sherwin helongs to a musical family. Her sister sang here at the Exhibition Concerts some few years since. The subject of our present notice ha3 not been heard in Melbourne until last night, and she is the best of them all. We have had to chronicle recent instinces of young singers of Victorian growth, wherein talent of the first order has been displayed; but none of these have committed (in a foreign tongue) a whole opera to memory, and have then sung and acted the part on the operatic stage. Miss Sherwin has done all this, and therefore we instiinc3 her as the foremost and brightest example of the achievements of native talent in singiug. In a question of art development it does not matter whether one or the other be born in Melbourne or in Hobart Town - there is a native genius struggling to the light in cither case. Miss Amy Sherwin is a young lady of elegant appearance, and is happily endowed with a variety of good gifts. She is of good height, and has good looks and a good figure. Her facial expression bespeaks sensibility and refinement of mind, and i3 quick to transmit, as through a glass, each varying shade of feeling arising during the scene to be interpreted. Considering that she yet lacks experience on " the boards," she must be credited with a great natural aptitude for the stage, because she went through the mad scene in " Lucia" in such a manner as to enchain the attention of the audience. To crown all her gifts as an artist destined to shine in opera, Miss Amy Sherwiu has a fine soprano voice— a voice with all the freshness of youth about it. In power Miss Amy Sher win's voice is much greater than we expected to hear. Aud now, finally to speak about compass, we heard bar sing last night from F below the stave to D natural in alt, and we are quite sure that she can sing with purity, sweetness, and power over a range of more than 16 notes, or say from D below the treble stave to E flat above it. In scale passages^ chromatic and diatonic, legato or staccato, Miss Sherwin stands in point of execution upon an equality with the best singers who have preceded her here. * * * The mad scene was, of course, the test of her highest powers, whether as actress or singer, and it is with a feeling of satisfaction we have to record her complete triumph. At the conclusion of this arduous scene the young prima donna was summoned before the curtain amidst a storm of applause, in which the cry spread from one to another in many parts of the house of "Bravo Tasmania." There never was a more hearty scene in any theatre." The following Afghanistan telegram dated Dadur, November 26, which appeared in the London Times of the following day, refers to an Indian officer who was recently ou a visit to New Zealand where he made many friends: —"On the 22ud instant Colonel Kennedy, commanding a brigade consisting of six mountain guns, the 2nd Punjab Cavalry, and the 32nd Pioneers, wings of the Ist aud 26th PiiDJab Infantry, and the 2nd Beloochees— a force of all arms 2000 strong — marched to Orumzai on the Khelat border. Another brigade under orders to Monair with 100 sabres from the Scinde Horse, and a detachment of the 2nd Sikhs, has occupied Sibi in Afghanistan. The country is quiet, and though the cold is Intense the health of the troops is good and their spirits are excellent." Referring to the same officer, the Times of November '2nd says:—" It is satisfactory to learn that strong reinforcements have reached Quetta, which is now held by a force more than sufficient to defy attack from any troops the Ameer could send against it. The senior officer, Colonel T. G. Kennedy, of the Bengal Staff Corps, has served for close on a quarter of a century on the frontier, and ever with distinction. At the siege of Delhi he was severely wounded when in command of the Guide Cavalry, and received a brevet majority. With the same corps he served through both the Vaziri expeditions in 1859-00 under Sir Neville Chamberlain, and in 1870-71 commanded a mixed force of all arms, watching the Vaziri border during the construction of new outposts in the Derajat. He here displayed much caution, and, and it was mainly owing to his taot that a third Vaziri war was avoided. In tae Dawar affair of 1872. Col. Kennedy commanded the Cavalry brigade consisting of the two Punjab regiments he now has under him. Until the arrival of General Biddulph places a new head at Quetta, we may rest Jassured that the station will be safe in the hands of Col T. G. Kennedy." The Marlborough Express says that in the garden of Mr T. Maddock, at Starborougn, 336 pods have been obtained from cne pea. Foremost in the ranks of fame stand those extraordinary and successful medicines known as " Ghollah's Grfat Indian Ccres." The numbers of sick people that have been restored to health by their use since their introduction into New Zealand, are incredible Some of the severe cases treated successfully by these Indian Medicines seemed to have baffled all the available aud ordinary remedies previous to their introduction. Severe cases of 16 and 20 years' duration have been cured by their use. " Ghollah's Great Indian Cores" are sold by all Chemists, where see testimonials.