Ths ordinary fortnightly meeting of the City Council will ba held this evening. Beports of the Riwaka and Motueka Road Board meetings will be fouud on lhe 4th page of this issue. The statement recently published that Schilling, tbe one-armed world-walker, had died in Melbourne, proves to be unfrouaded. Mr W, B. Mansfield,} his late agent, stales tbat as late as the 13tu ult. Schilling was loctutin^ in the Vic'orian capital, and he was to leave for Adelaide on foot shortly afterwards A petition is being largely signed for presentation to the Nolson City Council to-night, praying that the area ofthe city within whioh ewine may not be kept be extended to the Wood, bounded cv the north by Weka st., on the east by the range of bills] ranging parallel to Miltoaetreet, and on the West by the Maitai. Mr Ernest Hogan's original coloured minstrels, numbering 40 performers, are to open at tbe Theatre Boyal on Monday evening next ior a return farewell season of two nights only. Tbe initial performance will be ' Uuole Tom's Cabin," a dram* tic adoption by Mr Hoganfrom the lata Harriot Beecher Stowe's well-known and widely read etory. The Company is expected to arrive from Westport on Sunday morning next, having conclndod a successful Reason at tho principal towns in Westland. Tbe following graduates of tho University of Now Zealand, who are students at Nelson College, havo passed tbeir Terms examination;— J. a. Kempthorne, who sat for tho examination of the Auckland Uoivirsity College, taking Latin.English. Mathematics, and Chemistry; V. P. Worley taking Englißh, Mathematics, and Mc! chaoics ; J. Houlker, taking History, Junspiudencp, and Poliitcal Economy. The two last-named students were examined by Canterbury College. Five candidates went up from Nelson College and for a pass each had to satisfy ihe examiner in three subjects One passed in Mai hematics and Knglish, but was not successfol in Latin and Frcnob, consequently he failed. Another passed in Mathematics I aud Latin, but failed ia English. ! In the Supreme Court in Chambers, j before the Registrar, on Tuesday, on the motion of Mr Pitt. lo'tera of adminiatra- [ tion in tho estate of William Henry I Phillips, the elder, deceased, were granted to William Henry Phillips, the younger. The second heat for tbe Commodore's Cop in connection with the Nelson Sailing Club will be sailed to-morrow afternoon, Comphints are made that the bicyole track to the Port is rather soft during warm weather, and that the tar spoils tyres, some riders preferring to use tho road. Tbe matter should be Been to by tho Corporation. A Motuoka "joka" : On the election of Mi- Daniel Bate to the Whimea Connty Council, Motuekafunny men went around saying that now there would be more debate (D Uste) in tbe proceedings of tbe local body. . j Tbe Chairman of tho Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (Mr O.M. Kout) desires to acknowledge |i he receipt of £0 3s 6d from Mr Light, being part of the proceeds of the cantata " John Bull and .I s Trades," and gives tho best thanks of the Board to thore who assisted in gottinir up the entertainment. This amount will be subsidised by the Gofernment to the extentof 2ia in the £. A Press Association telegram states that in connection with the inquiry into the mishap to tbe Mawhera off East Cane Island, Capt. Shaw's certificate was restored to him, but be was ordered to diy the costs of the inquiry. » A .\. ad p e £'^T*^ eL *"here notifies that Mr F. Buxton is a candidate for Nel son at the coming election. Unequalled aad Invinoible Wood's Great I Peppermint Cw forCoughsand Oold* lfi