The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 268, 22 November 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.

Those of our readers who are engaged in sheep farming, and indeed the public generally, for all are more or less interested, will read with sati9factiou a London telegram , from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, which appears elsewhere, announcing a decided improvement in the wool market, a very appreciable rise having taken place in the commodity of which this colony is so large a producer. A penny a pound increase is tautamouut to at least £100,000 . on tbe New Zealand clip, aud thia sum of money cannot be rendered available for. expenditure without beneficially affecting the community at large. As the rise in many cases exceeds that figure, it is of course in proportion so much the better for the colony in which tbe money is to be spent. At the City Council last uight the fortnightly accounts were passed, nnd the Council adjourned until Tuesday evening next. A sebmon in connection with the -.Hope Sunday School will be preached in the new schoolroom to-morrow by tbe Rev J. Hamilton Ou the following Thursday, the 28th anniversary of the school will be" celebrated by a tea party and public meeting. Mb. H. C. Baddeley, tbe Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court, has, we j understand, successfully passed tbe "general knowledge " examination prior to admission as a barrister find solicitor of the .Supreme Court of New Zea'and. The next Civil Service Examinations begin on tbe Bth December next in the Provincial Hall. We hear there are 35 candidates for examination in Nelson, moat of them being from the College. Mbs Habdinge Bbitten has addressed a long letter to the New Zealand Sun regarding the Juvenile Troubadours, who are about to pay a Visit to Nelson, and of whose performances she speaks in rapturous terms. She gives at length the plot of the play in which she saw them act, namely. "Struck Oil," and concludes with the following words : — "In a word, the performance was a matchless one, and were it for the sake of tbis modern little Roscius alone, a visit to the Theatre Royal, and an hour or so spent with these fairy people would instruct the taste, elevate the mindj warm the imagination o£ every spectator, young or old, who bad a mind to appreciate true genius, and a heart to sympathise with the admirably directed talents of those modest, charming, and truly gifted children. I beg to add I write merely for tbe truth's sake, and the sake of the high art which these little ones represent, being until to-night a stranger alike to the management, the managers, or even the existence of the juvenile troupe in question. A Meeting of those interested in getting up a regatta was held at the Trafalgar Hotel, on Thursday night, but as there were only ten persons present, no business could be done. There was much comment on the fact that only ooe gentleman from ths Port was present. The meeting was adjourned until Wednesday next, at McLean 's Steamboat Tavern, when it is to be hoped that, if a regatta is really wished for, the supporters of it will attend in force, and enable the business to be proceeded witb.