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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 247, 21 October 1867, Page 2

We learn, by telegram, that the Rangitoto, with the Suez mail, arrived at the Bluff on Saturday, at 4.22 p.m., and left for Dunedin, at 10 a.m., yesterday.

T" We are sorry to have to inform our readers tbat telegraphic communication with Christchurch and the southern stations is again interrupted, owing to some fault upon the line. Nelson has been unable to transact any business with the West Coast and the south since ten on Sunday morning. These frequent interruptions are a serious annoyance to the mercantile portion of our townsmen.

The Corsican Brothers was the * piece de resistance' at the Oddfellows' Hall ou Saturday evening, and, in spite of the depressing influence which a sparse audience must inevitably exercise upon the performers, the piece went off most successfully, the various illusions being produced wiih even greater effect than ou' the previous evening. It would seem that shopping and other occupations combine to render Saturday evening very uupropitious to theatrical exchequers in Nelson, aud the management, after the success achieved on Friday evening, would probably have acted wisely iu closing the house on the following evening. We are of opinion that the Corsican Brothers might be repeated with profit to the company, a very general wish having been expressed to that effect. The afterpiece of the Rough Diamond afforded much amusement, and displayed the low comedy powers of Miss Annie Merton and Mr W. H. Newton to good advantage. We confess that this farce, albeit written by Buckstone, is no favorite with us, the leading characters being vulgar and exaggerated, and the incidents highly improbable. To-night Miss Annie Merton takesher benefit, and this announcement will doubtless suffice to fill the house, independently of the programme, which is a peculiar one, including a comedy by the 'immortal' Will Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, and the pretty operetta of The Swiss Cottage, in both of which the fair beneficiaire wiil appear.

"jf' We are desirous of correcting a misstatement which occurred in our issue of Saturday. The kangaroos ordered from Melbourne are not to be presented by Mr Thomas Newton to the Acclimatisation Society, but have been ordered for the Society through the instrumentality of that gentleman. A correspondent suggests

that this proposed addition to the stock of the province may be considered much in the same light as the presentation by oue of the Indian Rajahs to Lord Clive of a white elephant, which is held especially sacred iu that country, and which cost him more than his pay to keep, whilst etiquette prevented him from selling it or otherwise disposing of it. He thinks that the little feed we have here the cows and sheep can very well manage to eut, and that until we can acclimatise the Alpine chamois this can rever become a hunting country. Has our correspondent ever tasted kangaroo tail soup ?

The New Zealand Times understands' that more than 20,000 ounces of gold were received at Wellington from Greymouth ami Hokitika by tho Bauk of New Zealand, for shipment to England by the Panama route. Other large quantities are at preseut held by other banks on the West Coast, and it is believed that the mode of transit across the Pacific via Panama will be generally resorted to in future by most of our banking companies.

. We understand that the sub-committee appoiuted at the last meeting of'the Nelson Cricket Ciub visited Victory-square on Saturday last, iu order to discover what was its present state, with a view to cricket operations there, and also what can be done to improve it. It was unanimously agreed that its present condition was any thing but satisfactory, aud that the best course to pursue iu order to make the ground serviceable for the preseut season, would be to turf it for about six yards square at each end where the wickets would be pitched, and by this means to make it ready for play iu about a month. The atteutiou of the sub-committee ha3 also been directed to the expediency of finding a practice-ground nearer the town than Victory-square, but at present we regret to learn that their efforts have been unsuccessful. Any public-spirited individual who may be able and willing to place such facilities in the way of the club would be conferring a very essential service on its members, which, we are confident, would be gratefully recognised. We would remind our renders that the general meeting of the club is called for Wednesday next, wheu the various officers will be elected, and other important business transacted.