Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1881.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 4 November 1881, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1881.

_ Our telegrams from tbc front stiil continue to dribb'e through at an aggravatingly siow pice. Wo publish two to-day which occupied eleven an.l twelve hours respectivply in transmission, and con3?queutty' prrived some six hours too .late fcr publication in yesterctay'd U.wa. To-da)'a messsg.-s are probably s;i;i lying j n the Kaho'lu aud Opnnake cfliees and will rep.ch us about midniahc.

It wi!i be seen by onr telegrams tV.at a-i Order in Com.eii bus been issur-d waking it lc-gal to attach a penny pes'age st&rh.-> to a receipt. Tiris --•/ ; i 1 prove a «rc?.:. convenience and tho saving of a surest p.csl oc troure and ocnafioi-.ally aniioj ance.

Wk are z'.-m to leurn that the servicss cf the new Nnval Brigade have been accepted, and that Mr R.ilpn JMohnrdson has beeu gazetted as «.-!iptain. The d'.sbir.idc i men showed ti:at tiny wore made of the light stuff by Voluntc-ericg- into oth^r corps" so soon p.3 tlu-y heani tha'-, tho co> ;: .y «as io want of tb'.ir &frnoesi, uu : ihi-.t tbeiri was real wcrk to be done, and ths ne»v company h likely to prove as good n ooe ?.3 i's to be found in tbe coiocy-.

It haa b?c-n ilecicirfl, we unieiatar.d, to bring fof.vaid Mr .). C. Iliohtuond fcr the Wrtimea iu oj position to Mr Shepbnrd. Mit W. H. Kyea has commenced his campaign ia the Picton electoral district, and n is said he will run Mr Conolly nretty close.

Ix Mr Lawrence's shop window iu 1 •■afalgar-slreet are to be seen a number of Qaeensland pineapples, tbe first, we bJiive, imported into Nelson f re m that colony, are not only remarkable for their sizu— tha largest weighing 6£lbs— but for the richness of their aroma and ii ;vor.