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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 110, 11 May 1868, Page 2

Among the passengers who left by the Airedale for Auckland yesterday morning were Major General Sir Trevor Chuto and Colonel Pitt.' We find that the first annual meeting of the Volunteer Artillery Company, which was originally announced for this evening, will take place on Wednesday evening. We understand that it is proposed to have a slight demons! ration, in the form of a sham fight, between the Artillery Company and the No. 1 City Rifles tomorrow evening about 8 o'clock, should the night prove favorable. Should this not be the case, the affair will be postponed until a future occasion. The Marlborough Press states thai an election is pending for a member of the G-eneral Assembly for the district of Picton ; Mr W. Adams, of this city, who was elected about nine mouths since, having it is stated, resigned his seat. The Press adds that three gentlemen are already talked of as likely to come forward, Capt. Kenny, Mr John Godfrey, and Dr Sickler, and to these we may probably add a fourth, Mr Ralph Richardson. The wreck of the Cleopatra was purchased by Routledge, Kenny & Co., of Napier for £127. The Marlborough Express of the 2nd states that a subscription list in aid of the erection of a Jewish Synagogue in Nelson has been opened by Mr M. Sklaark, in Blenheim, with considerable success. Bubb Doddington was very lethargic. | Falliug asleep one day after dining with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobliam, the latter reproached Doddington with his drowsiness. Doddington denied having been asleep ; and to prove he had not, offered to repeat all Lord Cobham had been saying. Cobhara challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story, and Lord Cobham owned he had been telling it. ' Well,' said Doddington, ' and yet i did not hear a word of it ; but I went to sleep, because I knew you would tell that story.' When is it dangerous to be in a church? — When the orgauiit is drowning; the j choir, or a greac guv iv the pulnii h iking '■ | a.wny at tuc congregation, . "" i