The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 84, 8 April 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1879.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Budden's Garden Calendar for the present year. In addition to gardening instructions it contains a full catalogue of seeds and garden requisites generally. The Citizens' prizes, to be competed for by the Volunteers at the Easter Encampment, are coming in rapidly. They comprise a silver watch, case of champagne, copy of the Evening Mail for 12 months, colonial oven, box of cigars, fat sheep, mysterious box, pair of slippers, albums, meerschaum pipes, boxes of apples and pears, bags of sugar and rice, pictures, and various other articles. The firing for the prizes will probably take place on Friday afternoon and Saturday. Mb C. E. Pratt, assistant engineer in the Public Works department, and formerly a pupil at the Nelson College, died last Thursday in the Otago district after an attack of rheumatic fever and inflammation on the lungs. Mu. Job Line 3, the mail contractor between Reef ton and Westport, and Mr Palis, the Chairman of the County Council, having fallen out over the state of the road, the former writes to the Weslport Times.— "It it were not for the evident cruelty involved in the proposition, I would request Mr Falla to take a trip over the road with me, when, I am afraid that he would exclaim in the words of Shakspeare, 'Oh! that this too solid flesh would melt.' I cannot, therefore, lend myself to such crnelty as to ask him to accompany me on the road, but if he volunteers to make the experiment I shall be happy to give him a free trip to the County boundary and back, so that he can judge for himself." Those to whom Mr Falla is known wili appreciate the grim humor of the foregoing proposition. The Reef ton Herald says:— Mr W. A. B. Adams, M H.R, is at present on a visit to Reefton. He purposes visiting Ahaura and Greymouth, returning to Reefton on Tuesday next, and proceeds thence to Lyell and Nelson. We are requested to contradict a rumor which would ascribe hostility on the part of Mr Adams, to the early construction of a line of railway from Brunnerton to Amberley, and that he would favor early extension from Foxhill to Lyell and Inangahua to the exclusion of the other line. So far from this being the case, we have the best authority for stating that the Araberley extension has Mr Adams's thorough support and his anxiety is that the Foxhill line should be extended so as to connect with the Amberley-Brunerton line as early as possible. At a meeting of the Board of Wellington College Governors last Friday, the following appointments were made :— Second master Mr Francis, M.A., Vice-Principal of the Geelong College ; Mathematical master, Mr J. Gammell, M.A., of Wellington ; Master of modern languages, Mr Merlet. The Westport Times gives the following specimen of the style of debate indulged in during the County Council meeting the other day :~The immaculate conservator of the public purse, Cr Eugeue Joe O'Conor, whilst in full blast, and addressing Cr Turner, fairly yelled at him : Sir, I am surprised that the Charleston people should have sent such a man as you to represent them.— Cr Turner quietly replied to the effect that in doing so the Charleston folks had shown their proverbial good sense ; he could not pay such a compliment the to Lyellites, who must form a rare community when they placed a person of his stamp into a position that could only ruiu their beat interest.— Cr O'Conor, still foaming : I was sent here by them, and I am here, sir, to look after the public money 1 to take care of it ! and see that it is not squandered away.— Cr Turner : I believe you are, sir ! and I am here to look after you'\ and to to see that you don't get it to take care of, and you know I mean what I Bay. It will be pleasing for our readers to know that after so many ages of blundering and torturing in tlie name of science and skill the time has at last arrived when all who are' suffering from maladies which are supposed i to be incurable, such as Godt. severe chronic Rheumatism, diseases of the Liver, Stomach, Chest, &c, can now be completely cured and eradicated by the timely use of the marvellous Indian Mfdicines known as " Gollah's Gurat Indian Cuues." Sold by all Chemists.