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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 83, 7 April 1879, Page 2

The City Cooncil having been constituted a Board of Management to whom the Botanical reserve has been banded over, the firat meeting was held to-day, wheu hia Worship the Mayor was elected Chairman of the Board. A bpeciai. meeting of the Roding River Copper-Mining Company wiil be held at the Council Chamber this eveniag at 7*30.

A cricket match between the Brightwater and College Clubs was played in Victory Square on Saturday, when the latter won by six runs. As this was tbe conquering match for the two teams there was great excitement at the close of the game. Sharp made 19 for the College, and Fairey 13 for I Brightwater. Those who have been in the habit of transacting business with him will learn with regret that Mr Bamford, who filled the offices of Examiner of Titles, Sheriff, Registrar of the Supreme CoUrt, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, and Deputy Cooimissioner of Stamps, has receivei instructions to proceed to New Plymouth, where he will act in the same capacity aa he has hitherto done here. The duties that he has fulfilled are to devolve upon Mr Kingdon, the present District Land Registrar, and Registrar of Deeds. On the fourth page will be fouud a severe satire from the Londou t'unch on the sentence passed on the Glasgow Bank Directors which is worthy of perusal. A match between teams selected from the City Rifles and Naval Brigade was commenced on Friday morning and finished this morning. The former proved the victors by 30 points. It is only fair to the Navals to atate that they fired with carbines, while their opponents used long rifles. "Mr Peter M'Tavish, a gentleman well known in Nelson, left Auckland by the last mail steamer for Scotland. It is stated that be is to be connected with the management of the Caledonian Bank there, which is in course of reorganisation. We clip the following from tbe Wellington Chronicle :— lt is noteworthy that Nelson, with a population >of about 6000, has two hundred efficient volunteers, whilst Wellington, with a population of about 22,000 has only 300 volunteers. Our local citizen soldiers say this is mainly due to the fact that in the so-called " sleepy hollow " there is a comfortable and capacious drill shed, large enough, in fact, to accommodate half a regiment of regulars ; whilst in Wellington, with all its supposed energy, there is no drill shei at all. Men do not relish having to undergo all the loss of time entailed by drilling, if they have to meet for drill exposed to the inclemency of the seasons. The G. li. Argus of the 2nd instant says:— "Mr Louis Davies, of Reefton, met with a severe accident at an early hour yesterday morning at Reefton, by which he may lose one of bis limbs. So far a3 we cau learn, Mr Davies was engaged in carrying out an ' April fool's ' joke by ringing the firebell, and when jumping down Iron, the stand his leg caught on a stump, breaking the limb iv a fearful manner, the bone protruding. Mr Davies was immediately attended to, but under the most f avotable circumstances will be laid up for some months."