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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 241, 2 December 1880, Page 2

A serious accident occurred at Sunnyside yesterday afternoon to a little boy nine years oil age, a son of Mrs N. Edwards, who was standing on a scaffolding erected afc Borne additions which are being made to the house when he lost his balance and fell to the ground a distnnce of twenty-six feet, breaking both his arras above the wrists, and inflicting a severe woand on his head ia the fall. About twelve feet from the ground was a plank which he is supposed to have struck and thus to have partially broken the fall, which otherwise could scarcely have failed to prove fatal. We are g'ad to learn from Dr Rogers to-day that the little sufferer is going on as well as could; be expected under the circumstances. A few weeks ago considerable consternation was created in Nelson by a statement that a coating of vegetable matter had been seen on the water in the reservoir. If there is any consolation to be derived from the knowledge that our neighbors are far worse off than ourselves in the matter of water supply, it may be obtained from the following extract from a letterjwhicb. appeared two or three nights ago in the Wellington Pos'x — Within the enclosed reserve, a short distance above the reservoir, is a noisome swamp, with from one to three feet of black footid mud. " Within a few feet of this swamp, and draining directly into it, is a dead dog. Judging from its putrid state it must have been lying there for about eight or ten days. A short distance further up, and outside the enclosed reserve, within 50 yards of the creek, is a dead cow or bullock. Further up again, lying in the bed of (he creek, the water running over and through it, is a dead cow or steer. Above the cow, and withiu a short distance of each other, most of them actually in the running water, are Ihe remains of uo fewer than eight sheep and two lambs. All these have been graduully washed down iuto the reservoir, leaving their bones (with more or less decoying flesh still adhering to them) lying in the bed of the creek." The Comedy and Burlesque Company terminated a very successful season in Wanganui last night, and, weather permitting, were to sail to day in the Wakatu for Nelson, where they will give their first entertainment to-morrow evening. The numerous friends of the Venerable Archdeacon Thorpe will be pleased to hear that be is about, to pay a few days' visit to Nelson, where he is expected to arrive in the Wakatu from Wanganui to-morrow. A presentation to Lieut. B. West will be made by his comrades of the H Battery of Artillery at the Drill Shed at 7'30 this evening. The N.Z: Times became fearfully excited over the Opunake murder and this is how it raved :— '• Outraged justice and humanity itself, demand that the perpetrator of this foul murder should be found, and made to expiate his crime upon the gallows. There is no punishment too great for such a wretch, and the people of this island wilt never feel that justice has been satisfied till he suffers death by the rope at the hands of the common hangman. Let every effort then be made for the arrest, conviction, and punishment of this infamous scoundrel, and disgrace to humanity, who did this damned deed. We call aloud for vengeance upon the murderer." It is to be hoped that our contemporary is in a calmer frame of mind now that the perpetrator of the cruel deed has been secured. Rff erring to Mr Proctor's visit to Nelson, the Auckland Star says ; — Nowhere does the illustrious astronomer appear to have been received with more cordiality than in Nelson, which rather prides itself upon its culture, and the liberal patronage which it accords to high class entertainments. The Theatre Royal is a very large building in proportion to the population, but it was crowded nightly; and its capacity enabled the Governors of the Nelson College to carry out the intention they had formed some time before Mr Proctor arrived there, viz., of taking coursetickets for the 136 scholars, who came from all parts of the colony, some even from Australia. Not to be behind the boys the principals of. the leading ladies' schools also took course-tickets for their elder pupils ; and after reading this it. is gratifying to learn that the children attending the town schools were not forgotten, but that through the kindness of the school committees a special day lecture was given for the edification of the public school children, for whom probably, the eighty illuminated views formed by no means the least attractive feature of the entertainment. The interest excited by the Proctor lectureß seem to have extended to all classes. Hermits and monomaniacs (of them there are said to be several in Nelson) who had not ventured out of doors for many months, and extremely religious people who had never been in a theatre before in their lives, turned out to see Proctor ; and at the conclusion of the last lecture (which it is important to notice, was about the moon) some young ladies threw bouquets at the gentleman who bad just been expatiating on the cheerful subject of universal decay. Probably these enthusiastic young ladies were Bweet girl graduates, whose stockings were ornamented with large clocks, and who had not found the sublime science of astroaomy harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute. Special attention is called to the pricelist of the Rodanow Manufacturing Co., of Boston, U.S.A., published in these columns; All those wishing to secure an excellent and correct timekeeper are recommended to address themselves to this old and reliable firm. No further evidence of the invariable good quality of their manufactures will be required beyond the following facts: The firm was established in 1849, and since then has gained prize medals at the Exhibitions of London. Paris, Vienna, etc., for excellence of manufacture. I'hey are appointed, by; warrant, watchmakers to the Queen, of England , Prince of Wales, the Emperor of Russia and the Bey of Tunis.