FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 October 1880, Page 2

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1880.

We are indebted to Mr Kirton, the Chief Postmaster, for the following list of successful tenderers for the inland mail contracts for the ensuing year: — Between the Port and the Post Office, Mrs S. Grant, £7s; Richnioud and Riwaka, tri-weekly, Henry Newman, £120; Eoxhill and Sherry, weekly, John Thompson, £38; Nelson and Wakapuaka, bi-weekly, C. H. Martin, £25 IOs; Thorpe and Upper Moutere, James Rose, £12; Bell Grove and Hampdeq, fortnightly by coach, £190. Several tenders for some of the minor services are not yet decided. All the tenders for the Riwaka-Collingwood service are declined for the present. There was an excellent muster of tbe members of the H Battery, New Zealand Artillery, last evening at its ordinary drillover 46 answering to their namee. Theßattery •was put through the ordinary gun and dismounting drill by Lieut West, and the several batteries shewed much smartness in handling their weapons Corporals Haase and Hood having successfully passed their examination ■were last night appointed sergeants. The cricket match between the Nelson C. C. and College C. C. will be played in the Botanical Reserve to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. A capital wicket has been obtained and some first-class cricket may be looked for. The comfort of visitors to the ground has been studied, the committee of the Nelßon Club having provided a number of seata for their convenience. Entries for the fourth handicap of the Nelson Carbine Club will close to-morrow evening at the Nelson Hotel at nine o'clock, and the firing will take place on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in next week. We are indebted to Mr J. Hounsell, the local agent for the sale of the work, for a copy of " Paddy Murphy's Budget : a collection of humorous Pomes, Tiligrams, an' Ipistols/' published by Mackay, Bracken and Co., of Duuedin. These pieces, the majority of which are political satires, appeared first in the columns of the Saturday Advertiser and afforded a good deal of amusement at the time of their publication. They are now bound together in a neat little pamphlet with illustrated cover, and are prefaced by a humorous " Didicashun to the Hon. Docthor Pollen, M. L. C." We are informed that the lady teacher of music, to whom we referred recently as coming here from New South Wales, will arrive in about ten days. We deeply regret, (says the Marlbrough Times of Tuesday), to hear of the death of a very promising youth — Walter Conolly, a son of E. T. Conolly, Esq., the eminent barrister, which melancholy event occurred yesterday morning at Picton. The deceased was between fifteen and Bixteen years old, and a student of Nelson College, where he gained a Marlborough Scholarship last year, and apparently had every prospect of a successful career before him. The two Blenheim papers have been having a row. At the time of the mail leaving tbe Express had struck the last blow, its reply to the Times concluding with the follow--1 ing complimentary paragraph:—*' Finally \ve may be pardoned if we refuse to receive instruction in good manners from men whose existences have been one incessant out

rage on the decencies of life, aud who, social pariahs now, will continue social pariahs, until in a pauper's shell they are cast unregretted into a pauper's grave." Mb John 11. Mabin reports that at the sale on Wednesday at his Richmond yards, there was a good uttendance aud numerous enquiries for fat stock, but of these there was a very small supply, as they were mostly stores that were offered. These sold at satisfactory prices. Several horses of various classes were offered, but it is still evident that there is no demand for them.

Tub Post says that civic matters will have to be " hung up " in Wellington, no fewer than four of the City Fathers having gone to Melbourne to see and to be seen.

The Piimate, in the course of his opening address to the members of the Diocesan Synod, at Christchurch, took occasion to comment very strongly on the practice of holding bazaaVs and eritertninments in aid of funds for Church purposes, and the Frc>s says that, judging from the very hearty applause which greeted this part of his Lord ship's address, tbe majority of the members of the Synod held similar views on the subject to those expressed in the address. A general meeting of the Patea Steam Shipping Company was held at Patea last week. The report for the half-year showed a credit balance on the profit and loss account of £1038 ()s 2d. A dividend of 15 jier cent was declared, and a balance of £318 03 2 i was carried forward. It was resolved with tbe idea of purchasing another boat, to increase the capital to £12000 in 1200 shares of £10 each. One fully paid-up share of £10 is to be given for every £50 capital held by the present shareholders.