News was received this morning of the death of Mr Henry Blunddl, of the firm of Bluudell Brothers, proprietors of the Wellington Evening Pott. The paper was started on a very small scale about twentyeight years ago by Mr Bluodell'd father, assisted by the deceased aud his brothers. Previously they had a paper in Hftvelook daring tha busy digging days, Tho impoitanoe of the Evening Post grew with that of the town of Wellington, and it has now for manyy<atB been a very valuaolo property. Mr Henry Blundell'a health his for a long time boea unsatisfactory, and has given anxiety to hia friends. Ha had been oonfhed to his house siooe lasb Monday, but appeared to be getting bettor, when he was attacked with bronohiti?, whioh proved fatal. The deceased was flf-y years of age, and haa left a widow and teu children. Tub Garrison Band nt a meeting htld on Friday evening decided to make its annual sooial more extensive thia year, instend of confining it to the members of the B.tnd only ns heretofore. The eooial will be held about the middle of nest month. The first weekly meeting of tho members of the Nelson Chess Club will he held thia evening in tho committee room ab the Institute in Hardy-st, We record with regret the death of M r John Gayuor, who died lasb night suffering from severe peritonitis. Mr Gaynor always took a great interest in the volunteer movement in Nc! in. Having been ia the regular sirvie • Uis assistance was of material benefit to thu City Rifles of whioh he was a member. No doubt the deceased will bo accorded a military ruueral* Thk regular monthly meeting of tho Victory Lodge will be held to-morrow even, ing, when the Installation of W.M, and officers will take plac» In the Nelaou Poultry Association's aohedulo it ia stated that Mr Glasgow's Oup has to b 3 won twice. This is a mistake as tho oup has only to be won ouoe, A BATHEB sudden death took place n% the Port yestarday aft>rnooa, when Mr William Walker, who was for o, considerable number of years foreman moulder at the Anohor Foundry, pissed quietly away. The deceased has complained of being unwell for some time pa?t, and, although suffering somewhat, went to work on Siturday morning in order to supervise an important oa&ting for tho b.s. Lily. Mr Walker ha* suffered from a rupture for sonn time. Tbe flags at the Port ate at half maab to day as a mark of reapeot for the deceased, Shortly aftnr eleven o'olook this morning the fire bolls wero rung, rather an unusual ooourrenoe during tho day time. The Brigade turned oat, when they found fcbnt tha alarm bal bien given in oonsequenoe of a fire in the roof of a oottage oooupied by Mr EJward Woodward in Harley~s Creek A sheet of iron was taken off and the water turned on, and fche fire was very bjoo extinguished, not, however, before a hole had been made fa the roof. There were n.? signs of fire from tbe inside of the cottage, aad fche root" was igoifced owwg to a faulty ohimnoy. Tha oott&ge belongs to Mr Edwin Woodward, father of Mr Edward Woodward, the present teuanfc, aad is insured in the Sua Fire Office for jEIQO. A correspondent writes to inquire " whose dnty it is to eeo that boundary fenoeß are in a proper stato before horses are turned out to grnzo, the person who lets the paddook, or the owner cf the homo 7 " Members of the Orchestral Society will notico that owing to alterations in tho Harmouio Hill the usual praotioa will ba held in tho Hebrew Synagogue to-morrow evening. The Rev. Mr Cachemaille will leave Wellington for Nelson by tho Mawhera thia evening. A JSloatimoti correspondent writes; - Tbe Queen's Birthday was observed at Ngatimoti by a public picnic to oelebrato the oponing of the suspension bridge over tho Motueha river near the Pokororo fiobool, and notwithstanding the unfavourable atuts of the weather about four hundred persous asseni bled. The bridge, though not yet complete, is bo far advanced that foot passengers o\n use it. Mr C. 11. Milk, M.H 8., was present, and nddreesed the assembly from a platform on the bridge. Games and virious amusements were entered into heartily, inoluding races for prizes, &o, for the children. The Sohool Committee provided a bountifulsupply of tea, cake, fyj, for the school ohildren, under tho management of Mewa 0. Green T. Heath, and J. W. Sutoliffe, members, of Committep, who are t) be congratulated on the Buooefs that attended their labours. The Motaeka Bind was present, and enlivened tho proceedings at interval by performing on the bridge and on shore. A vote of tha-iks t > the B -nd for thoir kind voluntary saviors, and tho other usual votes of thanks brought to a olose a very enjoyable da/, the only dnwback being a fevv occasional showers, whioh were not so heavy as to interfere much with the eujoyraonr. Tub Inveroirgill correspondent of tho Otayo Daily Times, in epenkingof therecont oruiso of the Hinemoa to tho Auckland laianJs, says:— Me ms Gordon nud Mcßeath, two prnobical {North ißl^ud Bheep farmerp who winter on the Auok}\nd Islands for the purpose of satisfying them^olvea as to thoir pjatorial oapabilitiep, are moat favovnlly impressed with their value- in this respeot and bolievo that 50,000 or more oroasbrod Bheep would thrive there woll, and in oonjuncfc:on with othrra (for whom they wore making the iuspeotion; intead applying to the Governmetit for a graairg leasejof « portion or the wholo of tbe islands. Captain Fa ! rQhiidhBB brought baok with him two flue spooimoua of long wo>led sheep bred on the islands They have the npp;aronce of boing fully three-quarterbred Liocqlna^ca rum nnd a owe-~with two or tltfe-a yesio growth o£ wool fully JS|in iq length, without any break in it, Th,e §he<>' \ oipital condition , and qui(j3 f f o«» ' a , whioh it was foared tho e&>- i> . ar ? m mate would produce, r .romfootrot common to Bheop. ..poaed damp ohr .c any other disease PAUTrocU'" oei'vo o'''0 '' ' * i{B .°* a dnrJn ? pi'aoy on a pasjamer in Kiatern wo tors wero re- . in Sjanry oq May 11, by tho steamer .ttiynan, from Chinu, It seems that the passenger stmmerKwong Sing left Canton recently from Whampoa with 80 Chinese pasBengers, most of them in possession of small sums of money. All went well until tbo crowded steamer had steamed about half- way to Whampo- 1 , wheu all of a sudden seven men who had, it was observed Jkept together in fc'io fore part of the vessel, flung off their outer garments, yelling like maniacs fired several Bhots in the air, and then shouted "We are pirates I go aft t" Then one of the gang, with a revolver, "covered" the oaptaln, who wa? no tin hdm, and made him steer along the river bank, while an» other promptly "covered" the engineer and mado mro. keep the engines going at iull speed ahead, while the other five pirates, all armed to tho teeth, made the passengers smrondor every cent they possessed. The pirate 3 afterwards ransacked the cabin, taking everything of value . After the looting was over the pirates forced the captain to steer tho vestel to a creek, aad a boat then put off from the ahora and took the

Jape-ado's fff. The steamer was t ken j .ok to Canton, where a report was made, to the Comraimoner of Customs, who at onoa sommu' io f-i with the Chiueße authorities, with whom the responsibility of arrett a id punishment of fcha desperadoes reatß. THk f. II ,wing paragraph is from » S.'la's Journal .'• The writer has evidently a very high opini mof Nelson. " Kintore wishes to krow the brs"; place in "Europe, and nt th^ same time the most economical, for a family who are limited to an iooome of £500 a T<*nr They have already lived j n p arip , Berli- 1 Dresden, and Madrid, when their income was £2,500 per annum. That income has baeu shattered by reoent Wlurw, but unfortunate'V^l r , fcaBfcr V, emaia '"changed and they And-ib impossible to live in En«)and with B ;?. fc M?B hkp o«>n»*Wfb. QThe family oon B i B t 8 of « Kintore ' bimso>f, vi 8 wifp and fc ,, ree liaughteis, nged respectively niueteen, seventeen, and fourteen. As ohap oontine. tart sidenoea I om rroammend Stuttrarf, Hanover, and Brunswick, Bruges, Ghent, and Mo' b -all obenp, but not very oomfortablp and very cheerful. Avoid Hola -d, an in eußely niterettioß bat very expensive ennn'ry t> livo in. You o»u d do very we'l on £500 a year t,t Avignon and Mont» pelier —in the enviro 8 of bobh whio'i towns there avo pretty and cheap villas. Madrid you are already cognisant of. To my mind the accommodation in the Spanish capital is as bad as it ia costly, But why not cross the Sierra Morena and give Cordova or Grenada a trial ? The climate heavenly, all the necessaries of life cheap local bpanish society courteous and hieh minded, and a run to Gibraltar whenever you feel like it, With regard to Italy, the inoome you mentio •. would be almost a princely one at Pisa, at Ferrar*. at Parma, and at Parrueia : but ib would Boaroely make both ends mret at Plorecon or at Veniod, although both the Oity of Flowers and the oity of the Be* are cheaper than Romp. I am sorry that you bavo limited me to Europe. If I had a smdl family and £500 a year, I wuld forthwith take ship for tin Antipodes and settle at Neleo-., New Zea'and. I k iow no spot in tho world more beautiful, more hospitablp, more tranquil, and witb a lovelier oHma 1 * than Nelson, N. 3. Th*re nro mtny retired Aoglo-«lnd a \ offlonß settled m the neighbourhood, and, unless I am mistaken, there is a Biahop of NOI3OO. What mote ooull you pjsslbly desire?" The gossipy writer of 'Talk on •Change" in the Awtralaiian says : — •• The Presbytery of Melbourne South regret that Mr Marshall, of Scots', admitted even the possibility of good in racing. I heard this I week of an vp -country churchman— hb is, I [ will admit, a churchman rather in a business than an evangelical sense — who was 1 acting as starter at a local race meeting, and he does his best to discourage racing, but his methods are peculiar, Ho aoted aa atartgr lately at the litble looal rooe meeting, and Slid to a friend. 'Here, Jim, the j'idgeisnob very well; jnst you get into the box nnd judge thia race, and bofore you do so put a 0 mple of pounds on Pharisee ; he'a b >und to win, 1 Jim booked his wigev, *nd etepped iato the box, only to see the Jtartsr so manage it that Phuiaea got away with a dozen lengths' advantage of anything else, In spite of this ho was s > nearly oaught that he haJ a bare head the be*t of ie as he passed the pO3t, aid the public, with the Btarter amoogat them, were olamouring for the winner's name. 'Pharisee, by % head,' ea : d the judge. -I knev 'i* ■ yelled the delighted starter as he tb' ew hi* ANexoitinginoidentooonrred during the voyage of the buque James L. Hal , which arrived at Melbourne reojntly, with a ougo of sugar from Mauritius. The veasel was in 40.14 south and H2AO easf, whea the maiter, Captain Oowan, rejieyed the aiamini? lnteliigeaoethatfsmoka wa 8 oomiug from tha after-batch The fire was discovered at 8.45 p.m. on the 18bh uU,, ar ,d a^ a fresh breeza v/&i blowing it was feared that the flames would sproad. The crow wero called and set fc-j work phasing wnt^r t > men stationed at the hitob, and others were mga^od rem)ving soma of the oirgo. The dense smoke whioh rosa when the hatches were opened almost blinded the men j but they worked bravely on, aod in lem ttt»n three quarters of an hour from tho time ttte fire was discovered it was extinguished. Tho examination of the vessel's bold made by the captain and offioers showed that the fire baietirted near the mizzen mast, but what caused the outbreak they could not diBQover« The extent of the damage done will not be known till the oargo hai been discharged. The Awtmlaiian has the following:— "Ondit that a number of Victorian bowlers think of agitating for a reduction in the size and weight of the ' jack '—the white spherical object) which is so important a factor in the game of bowls It would appear that the cause of the contemplated agitation is that certain members of the last team of Victorian bowiors that visited Sydney, and sustained defeat ti ivery matob thny tuok put in, and attrioute their dißoomfiture to the faot that they hud tc piay not only on st-anga bowling greem, but with a Btrange -jaok'— a 'j.ok 1 whioh boars about as much reaeinbhnoa to the «pok' which has been rfooguised in Viotona far tho hat thirty years rs a shilling does to n half a crown Probably tho mattor will conio under the consideration of the Victorian Uowlinc; Association, and, if so, it is to be hoped that body will look carefully all round the question before it consents to modify clause 6 of the rules adopted by the Association in Septem bar, 188 Q.