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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 211, 17 September 1879, Page 2

We learn from the police that a summons has been issued against Edward Thomas, mining manager, for assaulting a girl named Parker at Stoke the other night. The case will be heard on Saturday. At the monthly general meeting of the Richmond Fire Brigade held last evening a cheque for £15 was received from Mr A. J. Richmond in aid of the funds of the Brigade. A cordial vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Richmond for the donation. A meeting of the commissioned officers of the various Volunteer corps will be held at the Nelson Hotel at eight o'clock to-night. In reference to the return of Sir George Grey for Christchurch, the Wellington Chronicle mentions having posted the numbers up at its office on the receipt of the telegram, and proceeds to say :— " The Liberals read in these figures a legend of triumph; to the Conservatives they were a scroll as fatal as the mystic writing on the walls of his palace waß to Belshazzar of old. •You are weighed in the balance and found wanting; your reign of tyranny is over; henceforth worth and ability are the watchwords to distinction; henceforth the worship of Mammon is at an end; the golden calf is shattered,' and ' all the king's horses and al

the king's men could not put humptydumpty together again.' " The interval between the sublime and the ridiculous is, in deed, very short. In concluding his account of the recent interprovincial football match, the reporter of the Post says: — The Nelson men played a very plucky game throughout, but they were slighly over-matched, not in any particular branch of the game, hut generally. I must congratulate the " forwards " of both teams on their excellent following-up and " passing." Two or three of the Nelson men 1 should like to specially compliment on their smartness in the field, but I was unable to get their names. The game was one which victors and vanquished have reason to be proud of, for it was a first-class exhibition of Rugby Union football. A Grahamstown telegram of Saturday gays: — The tribes of Hauraki have at last given their decision, leaving the Government "as you were." They tell the assassins to be good boys for the future, or they will be handed over to the law, but seem to have no intention of handing them over now, although pressed to do so by the Native Agent the one who urged that it would be dangerous for Government to attempt to take them when Superintendent Thomson wished to go up with a few policemen to arrest them. The Native Minister has been informed of the enquiry.