The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 199, 21 August 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1880.

It is rumored, and we have every reason to telieve that the rumor will prove correct, that among the changes rendered necessary by the recently adopted policy of retrenchment the following are to find a place :— Mr A. Le G. Campbell, at preseut Resident Magistrate and Warden at Collingwood, is to retire on a pension, and the judicial work of the district is to be done from Nelson. Mr Moy nihan, the assistant clerk in the Resident Magistrate's Court here, is to be removed to Coliingwood, where he will be Postmaster, Collector of Customs, and hold a variety of other offices, acting in fact as the factotum, of the Government in the district. His place in Nelson will not be filled, but Mr Baddeley, the present clerk, will have to perform the whole of the work connected with the District and Resident Magistrate's Court3. How Mr Campbell has succeeded in establishing his claims to a pension— if it be a fact that he ] really has doue so — ifc wil be interesting to learn also what are the services rendered for which a grateful country is to be called upon to provide him with an income for life. Most of the work he has done has been performed in the Nelson province, yet this, of all other districts iu the colony, will be the most puzzled to know for what possible reason the name of Alexander Le Grand Campbell should figure on the pension list of New Zealand. The decision of the Pension Board will be looked for with considerable curiosity. Tiie gale, the tail end of which reached us on Saturday, appears to have blown with great fury in Canterbury and Otago. Telegraphic communication is interrupted between Blenheim and Christchurch, as well as between the latter. p !a<»«=a feo-« fey the West Coast line, but it will probably be resumed to-cight, and we may expect to hear of much damage having been done, judging by the few details that are to haud by way of Wellington, where a steamer from Lyttelton arrrived yesterday. In the extracts which we made on Saturday from the reports attached to the Public Works Statement, that portion which referred to the various routes suggested for the Nelson-Greymouth line were by mistake astributed to Mr Confers instead of Mr Blair. The half-yearly meeting of the Naval Brigade will be held at the Port Public Hall to night at half-past seven. We remind our readers of the very attractive entertainment to be given in the Shelboume street schoolroom this evening. A lecture will be delivered by Dr Monckton at the Temperance Hall to-morrow evening under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. The subject of the lecture will be found in the advertisement, and at its close Dr Monckton will give an interesting narrative of incidents and personal adventures during the Crimean War. The Bishop of Nelson will deliver his lecture ou •• George Moore the Cumberland lad at Stoke this evening. The Tonic Sol-Fa singing class, which owes its tuition to the Rev. R. Bavin, who has taken an immense deal of trouble with his pupils, will give an entertainment at the Wesleyan Sunday Bcbool-room next week A special preliminary practice will be held on Ihursday evening next, at seven o'clock Me Powley who is now on a visit to Nelson will deliver three addresses, the first of which will take place to-night, the subject being " The great Image and the stone which smote it," the text being taken from the second chapter of the Prophet Daniel. The Customs receipts for the week ending Saturday last were £849 9s Id.