The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 129, 31 May 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879.

We learn from our telegrams that the Governor, accompanied by the Premier, left Wellington by the Hinemoa for New Plymouth last night. As a private telegram received from Colonel Whitmore yesterday stated that Sir Hercules Robinson intended visiting Nelson on Monday we presume that j

pc will corhe here direct from New Plymouth. His Excellency, it is said, proposes remaining here two or three days which he will devote to sporting. As no official intimation of his intention to come here has been received, there can, of course, he no public reception. His official visit will probably take place at a later date. At the Magistrates's Court this morning, before A. J. Eicbmond, Esq., J.P., the Superinteudsut of Police appeared and asked for the discharge of a Ulan who had been arrested under the supposition that he was a forger who was wanted at Waiganui. Ifc appeared that the authorities there telegraphed the description of the man they were desirous of apprehending, and stated that he had come to Nelson, and the one no* brought up> answering to the description, was arrested. Afterwards, however, another telegram was received, stating that the real Simon Pure had not come here at all,} but had gone up the country at Wanganui. The man was discharged at once —Thomas Cullarton, charged with issuing valueless cheques here and at Motueka, was remanded for eight days. The full cast of the opera of Maritana, to be performed at the Theatre Royal on Monday night, will be found in our advertising columns. From what we have heard of the Company we anticipate a great treat. There are, no doubt, many men in Nelson, as elsewhere, who are prepared to admit that the attraction of their homes might be greatly enhanced by a larger acquaintance on the part of their wives with the culinary art. Probably, then, it will be pleasing them a3 well as to the wives, who, doubtless, would willingly increase their knowledge of this department of the household if they only bad the opportunity, to learn that a lady arrived by the Arawata this morning with a view to giving a cdurse of cooking lessons in Nelson. Miss Fiddler has visited nearly all the other towns in the colony j her classes have been very numerously attended, and the lessons she gives, as we learn from newspaper reports that have come under our notice at various times, are perfectly simple, but so practical and so easily intelligible that great improvements have been effected in the kitchens of those who have benefitted by her instruction. Full particulars will appear in an advertisement on Monday. MIS 3 Manson, who so graphically described the scene at the late fire at Takaka, when giving her evidence in the case of Me Namara v. the Norwich Union Company, has been presented by Mr Stanton on behalf of the Company with a handsome gold watch, chain, and chatelaine ornaments in recognition of the valuable services she rendered in saving the contents of the burning building. The election of City Auditors takes place on Monday. The candidates are Messrs H. D. Jackson, J. Percy, and A. W. Scaife. A London telegram to the Post says : — Later intelligence has been received f rom the Cape, from which it appears our troops are reduced to serious straits for want of forage. The Zulus have adopted the plan of firing the grass, and the difficulty which was before experienced of finding food for the horses has thereby been very much increased. Mr B. Crisp desires to thank those who by their subscriptions and otherwise assisted in making tha children^ Birthday treat pass off so successfully. From Mr Jervis he wishes to acknowledge the receipt of £7 Os 6d, contributed in the Foxhill district. It has been decided to hold the Volunteer Ball on Wednesday evening next in the Provincial Hall, when it is expected his Excellency the Governor will be present. "A meeting of the Committee will be held at the Nelson Hotel this evening at eight o'clock. Sekvices are announced to be held tomorrow as follows:— At St. John's Church, Wakefield, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.; at the Motueka Valley Church at 2 p.m j at the Wesleyan Church, Hardy-atreet, by the Key R. Bavin, who will preach a special sermon to young men in the evening. We beg to draw the attention of the public to the prospectus of the Victorian Insurance Company (Limited), which appears in our advertising columns. This is the reconstruction of the present Victorian Fire and Marine Insurance Company lately telegraphed from Melbourne, its headquarters. We are informed the business of the present Company will go on as usual until 30th June next, when the whole will be transferred to the reorganized company. The Victorian Insurance Company has been long and favourably known to the New Zealand public. We therefore need not comment on the prospects of the reconstructed Victorian Insurance Company beyond drawing attention to the fact that the fresh company takes over a large and eminently successful business, and at the same time has the prospect of greatly increasing operations by the extended influence of new shareholders all over the Australasian Colonies.