The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 93, 19 April 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1880.

We are glad to learn that the Government have accepted the tender of our local line of steamers, the Anchor Company, for the performance of the West Coast Middle Island service, which has hitherto been carried out by the steamer Maori. The charges against Messrs Percy Adams, Langley Adams, Bunny, and *Teschemaker, for committing a breach of the peace, came on for hearing at four o'clock this afternoon, before L. Broad, Esq., E.M., and a number of Justices, when the charges against Messrs Teschemaker and Bunny were dismissed; Mr Langley _ Adams was fined 20s and costs, and Mr Percy Adams, in addition to being fined 40s and costs, was bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself in £50, and two sureties of £25 each. We remind our readers of the concert to be given in the Christ Church Sunday school, Shelbourne-street, this evening. The first subscription meeting for the thirty-seventh series of shares in the Permanent Building Society will be held at the office, Hardy-street, this evening at seven o'clock. Nominations for Directors will be received, and the election of auditors will take place after the meeting. The Georgia Minstrels gave another capital performance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, when there was a large attendance, the back seats being crammed' to suffocation. The management displayed rather bad taste in not commencing the performance at the advertised time, fully a quarter of an hour having elapsed after the appointed hour before the Minstrels made their appearance, thereby causing a tremendous shouting and stamping of feet by those in the back seats, but we understand-that the delay was a pure accident, and is not likely to occur again. The remarkably good puns of the corner men elicited shouts of laughter, while the song "Hannah how is your Ma" literally brought down the house. The farce " J.P. for a Day," wherein was introduced what professed to be a rechauffe of the scene that occurred in Trafalgar-street last week, created a great sensation among . the audience, and was received with tremendous outbursts of applause. The performance was brought to a close with the laughable farce entitled "Love in all •' Corners," wh|ch pj.wpk.ea muck Uwgljtev, 'The PT9? j

gramme for to-night will be same as Saturday night's, and will include a ballad entitled " The Death of Nelson," written and composed for the occasion, and having reference to a recent local event. Me. Arthur Sketcht>et, the inimitable humorist, will arrive here from the South by the Taiaroa to-morrow morning, and make his first appearance in Nelson at the Masonic Hall in the evening. The leading feature of the entertainment is " Mrs Brown at the Play," wherein is revealed some of the most amusing secrets of family life in London. An English contemporary, Bpeaking of the entertainment, says ; — "lt is a long time since we have seen a cleverer impersonation of a general original character than this of Mrs Brown. Mrs Brown herself is full of touches of character, of humor — broad, genuine humor — such as we generally associate with Pickwick; and Mr Sketchlcy's picture of Mrs Brown is a splendid hit. No one who relishes a broad and characteristic piece of humor ought to miss Mrs Brown."