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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 196, 22 August 1867, Page 3

] The Directors of tlie proposed Theatre f and Assembly Rooms Company have just | published their prospectus. From this I document we learu that one-third of the I shares have already been subscribed for. I Under these circumstances it is only | reasonable to anticipate that the object of | the Company' will be speedily realised. I We do not however hear that the Direc- ; tors have taken any special action in the I matter, and we would urge upon them the ' propriety of adopting such immediate I steps as may give vitality to the project, ' the" advisability of which is, we believe, very generally acknowledged. The members of the Artillery Corps "will perceive from a notice which appears in our advertising columns, signed by Captain Pitt, that they are requested to present themselves at drill on Monday evening next; when the nomination of two I members for commissions as First and | Second Lieutenants in the corps will be I received, the election to take place on the 1 following Monday. We understand that | the corps now numbers MO members, of 1 -whom 56 are regular attendants at drill. | Short rifles and swords were served out I on Tuesday eveuing, and a 24-pounder I gun was expected to a'rive by the AireI dale yesterday, forwarded by the General I Government for the use of this corps, but | will now probably reach us via the West ! Coast, in order to avoid land carriage from | Auckland. The gun is described as being j a smooth bore, but quite new, the Govern- | ment being unable to spare an Armstrong Igun in consequence of their determination to retain all the guns of this description of which they are in possession, in the North Island. Tenders for the clothing of the Artillery Corps will, we understand, H be called for next week. if The usual weekly parade of the City If "Rifles No 1 took place at the parade I ground, adjoining the Government Build--1 ings, on Tuesday afternoon, at 5 o'clock. I There was a very fair muster, and after 1 going through the usual evolutions and a 1 little skirmishing practice the Company 1 were marched through the city in charge 1 of Lieutenant Percy, and accompanied by I the baud, to the Adjutant's office in Hardy- *| street. The youthful Arabs, who are I invariably in attendance at such specta- - 7| clesj derived additional amusement on this ? occasion from the strange vagaries of a. | well-known habituee of the police court. | who, doubtless with an eye to her appointI ment as vivandiere to. the corps, insisted H on accompanying them in their progress I through the streets, ranch to the evident annoyance of the bandmaster and to the unmitigated delight of the youngsters, whose attentions to the uufortunate damsel partook of rather a boisterous and personal character. . _ ' . A meeting of the tailors of Nelson was held last night at the Trafalgar Hotel, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present mode of expending the sum J! voted by the Estimates for the. police clothing., f &c. Mr Flood was in the chair, and about^a dozen other members of thetrade we^e present. After some conversation relative;-; to the subject-matter of the meeting it was proposed by Mr Cann-and' seconded;:: by iMrf Snow,'- «? That in the opinion of this-meeting the course pursued '-■_ with regard tcl 'the ; clothing ;if or the police ; and -other public bodies is 'totally at va- ;

riauce with the system generally pursued, in the Australian colonies, and this meeting is of opinion that calling for tenders is the only legitimate course that should be adopted iu the expenditure of the public money." This resolution was carried unanimously, and it was then resolved that Messrs Snow, Waxman, and the Chairman constitute a committee, with authority to communicate with his Honor the. Superintendent on the subject. The meeting then separated.