Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 123, 24 May 1879, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1879.

A royal salute of twenty one guns was fired this morning by the Artillery Company near the railway station prior to sending the guns to Richmond for the review on Monday. Tl:e precision with which the firing was carried out was highly creditable to the men who served the guns. The paucity of telegrams in our columns to-day is accounted for by the fact that it is one of the few holidays in the year enjoyed by the telegraphists, the office being open only from 10 to 10-30 a.m., and from 5 to 5-30 p.m. We understand that a telegram has been received by the Officer Commanding the District from the Defence Office stating that His Excellency the Governor will be advised to accept the services of the newly formed Waimea Rifle Company. Mr. Acton Adams has been gazetted official visitor, and Mr J. Mackay Deputy-In-spector of the Nelson Lunatic Asylum. The Queen's Birthday Review will take place in Mr Canning's paddock at Richmond on Monday at 3 p.m. The sports will commence at 11 a.m. A special time table has been arrapged by the Railway Manager for the occasion. A Committee meeting to arrange the prize list for the sports is called far at the Kelson Hotel at eight o'clock to night. " Ou> Ben Crisp " means to look after the little ones as usual on the Queen's Birthday holiday, and will parade the streets with his crowd of attendant satellites in the morning, after which there will be games in a paddock kindly lent for the occasion by Mr T. Harley, and feasting in the Temperance Hall. The new Catholic Church at Motueka will be opened to-morrow morning. . The Lady Barkly will leave here at 8 a.m., and return in the afternoon, so that those who wish to be present at the opening ceremony will have an opportunity of doing so. The* Lady Barkly will make an excursion trip to Matueka on Monday, leaving here at 8 a.m. and returning in the evening. Should the weather prove fine no doubt many wilt treat themselves to a trip across the Bay in the little steamer. We have received a communication from Mr Garrard the wharfinger, "re driving on the wharf " in which he says :— " I regret that Mr Cooksey has such a defective memory for I have frequently (as also my men) cautioned him against driving on the wharf, though whether he has been told to lead his horse I could not say, but I should imagine that if a horse is not allowed to be driven, the inference is that it must be led." Cabmen have been frequently warned of the danger of leaving their horses unattended on the Government Wharf, but very few of them have taken any notice of the warning. This morning shortly after the arrival of the steamer Wellington an unattended horse with cab attached made a bolt from the above wharf, and in attempting to shave the Custom House Hotel too closely the cab ran against a post. The shafts broke, and the horse with them dangling at its heels, made for its stables which it reached safely. Beyond being smashed a little about the front the cab escaped unscathed. There was a good show of hares, quail, and pheasants in Mr Burrell's shop to day. Whatever may be the reason for the scarcity of the latter, it can scarcely be attributed to want of food if we may judge from the condition of those that have been killed, all of which seem to be as fat as could possibly be desired.