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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 233, 4 October 1867, Page 2

The Mail for Europe, via Panama, will close on Saturday (to-morrow) evening at 7 o'clock, for mail orders and registered letters at 5, and for newspapers at 7. We -would observe that a telegram has been received at the Postoffice, stating that the Airedale, which is properly due from the South on the 9th, will not call at Nelson on that trip. Letters for Taranaki and Auckland, should therefore be posted iu time for the mail to-morrow evening to go via Wellington. . . .

His Honor the Superintendent has issued a proclamation, calling the Provincial Council together on Tuesday, the 29th instant. It is understood that this step has been found necessary in consequence of the fact that a large expenditure has been made on the West Coast as yet unauthorised by the Council, and in excess of the vote for the West Coast service passed last sessior, and it will therefore be requisite to obtain the authority of the Council in order, to legalise it. The Council will also probably be called upon to consider the course which it will be expedient to adopt ins order to bring the West Coast Railway uuder the notice of capitalists at home.

We have been requested to correct a statement which, it appears, has gained currency, to the effect that geutlemen only would be received to-morrow afternoon at the Provincial Hall by the Bishop and Mrs Suter. The reception, ou the contrary, is intended to include any lady visitors who may desire to be introduced to his Lordship aud Mrs Suter.

Telegraphic communication was interrupted since noon to-day between Blenheim and Christcliurch, thus confining the operations to Wellington and the intermediate stations.

In consequence of the pressure upon our space caused by the arrival of the mail via Panama, and other matter, we find it impossible to insert in the present issue our notice of tne Harmonic Society's Concert, which took place last night at the Provincial Hall, and passed off very successfully, especially the second part of the programme, the Hall being crowded, in spite of the very unfavorable weather which prevailed.

This evening, should the weather continue favorable, M. Vertelli, the Australian Blondin, is announced to give an exhibition of the extraordinary feats for which he has acquired so much celebrity in the adjacent colonies, at Mr Harley's old brewery yard, off Bridge-street, and the performance, which is entirely novel in Nelson, and calls for the exertion of no slight nerve and intrepidity, will probably attract a numerous attendance, especially as the charge for admission is very moderate.

We have received a communication from Picton stating that the dramatic company, including Mr W". H. Newton; Miss Annie Merton, Mr and Mrs H. Sefton, Mr G. L. Seymour, and others, whose intended visit to Nelson we noticed some days ago, are now at Picton, and playing to excellent houses. They propose leaving that place for Nelson about the Bth inst., and will Jbring an efficient orchestra with them.

In Italy there are 21,720,363 Catholics; 32,684 who do not belong to the Church of Rome; 20,000 Protestants around Pinerola; 22,458 Jews; 1829 belonging to other churches.

At the recent annual meeting of the Society of Friends held in London, it was reported that there were 6474 males and 7312 females, making a total of 13,786, beiug an increase of only 1 1 during the past year. Lately the deaths have exceeded the births.

A boy describing the pulling out of a tooth says, the doctor hitched on to me, pulled his best, and just before he killed me the tooth came out.