The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 119, 20 May 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1879.

Mr. Kirton, the Chief Pos master, has received a telegram from Wellington stating that as the San Francisco mail closes here on Saturday next the office must be kept open as usual on that day, and will be closed on Monday instead. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day before L. Broad, Esq., E.M., there was but j one case, namely, Adams and Kingdon v Staite, a solicitor in Wellington, an action to recover £27 4s 4d, amount of promissory note and interest, Judgment was given for the amount claimed and costs £3 13s. From some of the sportsmen who ventured out yesterday we learn that hares and quail are very plentiful, thirty-one of the former having been shot on one farm of 400 acres near Stoke. Of pheasants but very few have been seen. Messes Joseph Mackay and Acton Adams M.H.R., have been gazetted Justices of the Peace for the colony of New Zealand, and the latter gentleman has also been appointed visitor of the Lunatic Asylum. As it is not customary to make Magistrates of practising lawyers it would be interesting to know for what reason this appointment has been made. A Christmas Tree together with a little musical entertainment are to form an attraction which, it is hoped, will draw many to the new Christ Church Sunday Schoolroom ia Shelbourne-street to-morrow evening There is still a debt on this building, and it is with a view to reducing it that some of the teachers have prepared the Christmas iree and its surroundings. A MEtTiNG of Volunteer officers is to be held at the Orderly Room this evening for the purpose of deciding on what day the review is to be held. * Considering the very unfavorable state of the weather there was a very fair attendance at the entertainment at Richmond last night, which passed off very successfully and will be repeated to-night. £ T yf E arl^ ough Ex P Te >s on the authority | of Mr Alfred Saundera, M.H.R., contradicts the statement made in the Times to the effect that hs was about to resign his seat in the House. "J. L. Bryant " writes saying that some ot trie residents in the vicinity of Brightwater have come to the conclusion that he heard the cries of the Misses Smith who so narrowly escaped drowning in the Wairoa river, and ran away for assistance instead of trying to rescue them. This he denies, and by a long statement of what occurred shows that he took an active part in saving them. He concludes his letter as follows;—" May I take the opportunity of asking whose property the bridge is? You will no doubt say 1 Ours,' « the public's.' Why cannot we then have that plank we have petitioned for, so as to make it safe to cross till the cart bridge is finished, as lots of little folks are daily crossing to school, to the terror of the parents." The following special commercial telegrams dated London 17 th inst. appeared in last night's Post :— The copper market presents no new features.— New South Wales five per cent, debentures, 1888 to 1892, 108 A New South Wales four per cent debentures 1903 to 1905, 101*. -New Zealand 4.J per cent consolidated, 99%. — Queensland four per cent, 1913 to 1915, 94£,

Queensland 6 per cent, 103 lo 104. — South Australian four per cent, 1894 to 1960, 97^- -Victorian six per cent, 1883 to 1885, lOSJ—Tallowisdul! ; mutton, 29s to 345; beef, 28s to 3 ls.— The tin market presents a quiet appearance. Present quotations are £66 to £66 5s per ton.— ln the wool market competition continues extremely vigorous. At to-day's sale 11,134 bales were catalogued. — The wheat market is quiet. An Auckland telegram of Sunday says : — A strong easterly gale has been blowing for the last twenty-four hours. During last night Mr Kissling's large yacht Daphne broke from her moorings, and drifted on the breakwater. Men from the man of war were working at her all day, and with the assistance of a steamer succeeded in -floating her off this evening. A special to tbe Post says: -s-The war being waged c.n Join tly by the Republics of Peru and Bolivia against Chili, is being hotly carried on. The first pitched naval battle between Chili and Peru has just taken place, and after a determined contest the Chilians were victorious. Sheep, according to the Marlborough Express, are a complete drug in the market just now. Our contemporary says :— " Mr Dillon has recently destroyed 1500 sheep, and used them for manure. Mr- A Monro also killed 2000 good fat sheep, fit for the butcher. We also heard of Mr Teschemakcr having served 1700 in the same way. The difficulty of travelling with sheep just now so as to obtaiu a remunerative market for them, the provisions of the Scab Act, which require them to be dipped even before boiling down, and the low price of wool combine to make sheep by no means so profitable aa they would be under an altered state of circumcumstances. It certainly seems really distressing to hear of good sheep fit for butchering being sacrificed in tbis way."