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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 203, 27 August 1868, Page 2

We are gratified to be able to state that the Executive, desirous as far as possible to obviate the inconvenience arising to the public from the adoption of the new Government signals, and the consequent removal of the smaller staff from Britaunia Heights, have determined on selecting another site, below the larger remaining signalstaff, on which the local signals may be exhibited as heretofore. Much difficulty has been experienced in finding a site which -will combine the two requirements, viz: — that the staff should not be visible from seaward, and also that it should be readily discernible from the city, but we believe that this difficulty is not insurmountable and that the temporary inconvenience to which the public are now subjected will be but of short duration. Mr jr. H. Cook's electrobiological entertainment takes place to-night at the Temperance Hall, instead of last night, as erroueously stated in our issue of yesterday. In our notice of the wreck of the Taranaki, it was stated all the mails had been saved except one or two paper packages. We are informed that the only Nelson packet lost was one containing some hundred newspapers sent via Panama. We perceive from the Mar] borough Express of Saturday last that Mr Collie, of Blenheim, states that all the .contents of his English parcel of newsp:ipers and periodicals, excepting the Home News, bad been lost in the Taranaki. The Nelson folk may therefore congratulate themselves on having escaped with so trifling a loss. The Rev. P. Hay Maxwell, of St. Paul's Church, Thorndon, Wellington, who had been confined to his bed for some days past, died on Wednesday last, and was buried on Saturday. A Tight Fit — Delirium tremens. Army Literature — Magazines and Be* views.