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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 105, 4 May 1881, Page 4

No. 1. jgTATEMENT of RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE in the GENERAL -ACCOUNT of the CIT* of NELSON during the Year ended, SU Maeoh, 1881.

RECEIPTS. Revenue. Hates. A s. d, A s. d. £ b. d. £ s. d, Kates of previous year ... 46 15 11 Rates for the year 1880-1 ... ' 2707 11 6 ' — 2754 7 5 Bents and Profits from Property, Buildings ... ... ... 52 0 0 Reserves ... ... ... ; 24 18 0 Miscellaneous ... ... 2 0 0 78 18 0 Fees— 'Licenses. Publicans ... 1007 5 0 Wholesale Spirit ... ,;. 70 0 0 Auctioneers ... „. ... 100 0 0 Hackney Carriages ... ... 35 9 0 Carters ... ... ... 32 18 O Theatres, &c, ... ... GOO Boatmen ... ... ... 4 10 0 Other Licenses, viz — Building ... £0 10 0 Bottle ... ... 80 0 0 Packet ... ... 60 0 0 Kerosine * ... 14. 10 0 Colonial Wine ... 2 0 0 _. 157 0 0 — 1413 2 0 Registration of Dogs ... 247 7 0 Other Fees, viz: — Weights and Measures ... 1 17 9 1662 6 9 Pines and Penalties. Fines under By-laws 13 2 0 Other JZevenue, viz: — Contributions to Footpaths ... 219 3 Bale of By-Lawe, &c ... 15 0 — — — — 4. A. Q jC *X Q — 4512 18 5 Deposits on Contracts ... 46 0 0 Receipts in Aid. Subsidy from Government ... 769 17 5 Subscriptions and Voluntary Contributions ... 38 16 6 798 13 11 Cash in hands of Collector on Ist April, 1880 ... ... o\o 11 Credit Balance at Bank on Ist April, 1880 ... ... 285 10 8 Bank Overdraft on 3 1st March, 1881 *». ... 211 0 10 ;"' r t— 497 2 6 7* ; , " £5854 14 1 Audited and found correct,

A MISCHIEVOUS MIDDY'S - JOKE. % : Dr. Foord Clark, a young sea-going Burgeon and an enthusiastic savant, arrived in San Francisco a short time Bince as the surgeon of the British ship •fdhri o'Gaunt. The ship was from Calcutta. The voyage was long, and' as it was so monotonous as not to fur- 1 nish %q the active intellect of the young i Burgeon all the phenomena that the savant could crave, one of the midship- ; men determined ' to improvise some, phenomena for him. At first he contemplated a sea-serpent^ but as seaserpents are becoming very common, and' are a good deal of trouble, he 1] v determined on the electric light finanj 'Itt Been D y unusually tough occassionaijj ' ~ the rigging of ships shell-backs aloft in . 1 -»>own as St. at sea, and which is •■ Elmo's fire. He got the. mates - *4, eye lanteita, and on a very dark nign« He climed aloft, lit it, and made it fast at the mast-head. Descending he xushed into the cabin and announced to the doctor a remarkably well-devel-opedVcase of St., /Elmo's light. The doctor Bounded pri deck, examined the light,.madea s sK6f;ch,9f it, and finally themidshipman boldly volunteered to go up and interview it. He went up, SjeW the light out, m$ descending, tbld ; the doctor he had totteHed ; the flame with bis finger, whereupon he instantly received a tremendous electric unock, andSt, Elmo's light disappeared. Dr. Clark found the depraved young man'srpiilse at 102, so he put the midshipman's arm in a sling* put a whiskey pling into the midshipman, and put the midshipman and both slings into the sick bay, and . thereafter, during the x^tlqfthe\crmse, and as a premium innocently paid to acase of very atrocious wickedness, he prescribed to the young hero who had blown St. Elmo's light out of the mate's bull's eye lantern daily rations of tobacco and grog. Upon the arrival in this port of the, John o' GHmnt, Dr> Clark wrote a . very abstruse account of the matter, which was published in an evening contemporary,! and he also forwarded to the London Graphic a much more detailed account of the phenomenon, together with water-colour sketches of it which he had made.' The doctor having subsequently saUed frbnV this port as the Burgeon of the Zealandia, Thomas Y* Powles, commander of the John o' Gaunt, to whose knowledge the perpetration of the joke had come, also in a communication to the evening contemporary, "gives "the .whole , business away*," not to raise a guffaw at the expense of: a:-! young, gentleman whose" acquirements as a physician land as a Bqientist: \ &ie. admitted by . bpth '•'. i^ Bodio9, ü b^t , tfiat th,e; jajke ; thaiji beguiled th© teaium" of a" long voyage and. the; excellence of its own inception and execution may be made pardonable, and may abfc ' serve as a false beacon for other jacieaiists,— San Francisco Chronicle.

•'gidiMuley Hassan, the 'Sultan of Morocco, . has .set. a -touching example of radical retrenchment to.hisisubjects. Constrained to thriit by a finanqial crißis of. , too prdinarylßeyerity, he has - enown tjej true Relievers .-- submitted, {to hu£ : rW iUe "wayj tp "reform their household bills " m a highly spirited jß,nd"thorpugh-goiDg: manner. Having completely drained the Imperial Treasury during ; his successful efforts f 6 suppress the rebellion that raged throughput his dominions last summer, he has just cut down the State exby some uncommonly sweeping measures, the first of which was the reduction of his own domestic eßtablishment to about one-half of its. normal BtreDgth. "He diamiesed, at a blow, 200 of his vsives, bestowing their hands upon distinguished officers of his army, whose pay, in consideration ot the high favor thus conferred, he docked to the tune pf_ some fiveand twenty per cent. A pleasing feature of this arrangement — to all, at least, except the immediate recipients i of , hia, especial grace— is '.'the fafet lsat His Majesty has 'madefjiu matrimonial dis£ositions_in ..such ..s.Qrt , tbat all his older moieties have gotjnew husbands, while He baa reserved the young ones to gladden his own hearth. f.mcr.*. ;,!::■<>■; V J '-" : ': : """"■''- '■ '