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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 126, 30 May 1868, Page 2

We find that we did the Police scant justice in the paragraph which appeared in our issue yesterday, with reference to the discharge of a rifle loaded with ball in Manuka-street, on Wednesday last, in stating that their efforts to discover the culprit had been fruitless. We understand that Sergeant Nash, having obtained some clue to the probable delinquent, went to him and charged him with the offence, which he partially admitted, and of which at a later hour of the day he made a full confession to his father. Mr. H. Coombs has left at our office some specimens of a second crop of apples, of the kind known as Kirk's Admirable, grown by him in his garden in the Wood. Mr R. Burn also informs us ahat he has within the last fortnight gathered a double handful of fine raspberries. We hear, moreorer, that there are peaches now ripening in Mr Disher's garden in Trafalgar Square. The season has certainly not been an exceptionally mild one, and these instances must therefore be regarded simply as proofs of the productiveness of the trees from which they were obtained. Our readers will have perceived from an advertisement which has appeared in our columns during the past week, that it is in contemplation to form a football club in this city, a meetiDg of persons interested in the project being called for this evening at the Nelson Hotel at 8 o'clock. At this season of the year, when cricket is necessarily in abeyance, the substitution of a game which is so thoroughly identified with English associations as the game of football, will probably be very acceptable, especially to the more youthful members of the community, and we hope to hear that the movement has been properly supported by a numerous attendance at the meeting to be held this evening. In Victoria the game has for some time past been largely patronised during the winter season, the numerous cricket clubs almost universally merging into football clubs, a hint which may not be without its use amongst, our own local cricketers. We beg to remind our readers that two anniversary sermons will be preached in the Wesleyan Church, Hardy-street tomorrow, by the Rev. W. Lee, of Blenheim, and that collections will be made in aid of the Chapel Trust. It will be seen from an advertisement in our columns, that Mr Walter Douglass will preach in the Temperance Hall tomorrow evening, at half-past 6 o'clock. " An advertisement in another column announces that the Rev. W. Lee, of Blenheim, will deliver a lecture on the Poets at the Wesieyan Chapel, Richmond, on Wednesday evening next. The only cases for adjudication this morning at the Resident Magistrate's Court were some indictments against several parties for allowing animals to go astray. An entertainment of a very varied and attractive character is announced to take place on Monday evening next, at the Provincial Hall, including readings from several of Shakespere's plays, a musical interlude, including both vocal and instrumental music, the selection of which gives evidence of cultivated taste on the part of the executants, together with the reading of the immortal 'Trial Scene,' from Pickwick. The artistes who are to make their first appearance in Nelson on this occarsiori, come to us heralded by very flattering encomiums, and we anticipate an intellectual aud musical treat of no ordinary character, on Monday evening. At the Quarter Sessions held at Sydney on the 11th instant, the Parliamentary trial arising out of the recent dis-

turbance in the Assembly between two of the members, came on for hearing. Mr Lee was charged with assaulting Mr M'Pherson, and pleaded guilty. He was bound over to appear on the ljst-of June for sentence. Mr M'Pherson demurred to the information agaiust him, and his case was adjourned until the following day. The entries at Tattersall's for the events under the auspices of the New South Wales Jockey CJub are very numerous. For the Derby of 1869 there have been 44 noninations. The same number has been entered for the Ledger. For the Sires' Produce Stakes, 1870, 41 have been nominated. For the Mares' Produce Stakes, 1870, there are 51 eu tries. For the same race in 1871 there are no less than 123 entries.