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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 265, 6 October 1875, Page 2

A 'v§pibited match afc polo was played\ye3terday afternoon in the grounds W the Botanical Gardens. The " blueV 'comprised Messrs Fell, T. Nicholsotf^^Vatta, and Galway ; the " reds," Messrs Rives, G. Nicholson, Hodgson, and .Warnock. The blues succeeded in scoring two goals, while their adversaries failed to win! a point. v In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, F. Trask sued E. de Montalk for £33 3s lid tor goods sold. Judgment for plaintiff with costs. T. S. Wymond and Co. obtained a verdict with costs against G. H. Turner for £4< 4s 9d ; John Cann recovered £11 7s with costs from E. G. Gibbons, jun. It will be seen by advertisement that the Rev P. P. Agnew will give his first lecture in Nelson to-morrow evening in the Masonic Hall. The reputation the rev. gentleman has achieved as a popular lecturer leads us to expect a great treat on the occasion. A special meeting of the Nelson A>tizan's Association will be held at the Foresters' Hall this evening at eight o'clock for the transaction of important business. The attendance of members is particularly requested. Tjeie Waimea West Band gave their second on Friday evening lasfiutbe village school-room fo^ a crowded house, iv fact, there were a great many persons who could not gain admission. The band played excellently well, and the songs, step-dancing, tumbling, Ac, were very well executed, and elicited great appUose. The entertainment was brought lo a dose by a farce. After the entertainment, the room was cleared for dancing, which was kept op with great spirit till the email hoars of the morning, when the company dlsptrasd, wall satisfied with the eveninj»'a amusement. The Bailer News of Thursday last states that the first locomotive for the Westport and Mount Rochfort Railway was landed on the wharf that day. Two others were landed subsequently. The female operators employed in the Wellington telegraph office are now seventeen in number. The following is a copy of a written address on the envelope of a letter received at the Post Office, .Hokitika, which has considerably puzzled the Post Office staff .— « Mr Chrisfcofer Shoraes, Okiehtickey, Crimbo, New Zealand, in haste." The writer's idea of the way to spell Hokitika is unique. The Christchurch and Dunedin Acclimatisation Societies, are about to take joint action to procure salmon ova from California. Mr Young, of Palraerston, a very successful pisciculturist, is to superintend the arrangements for the shipment. It has been resolved in Christchurch to request his Honor the Superintendent to proclaim the River Avon open for fishing with rod and line for trout, from Ist November, 1875, until the 31st March, 1876, both days inclusive, to those persons who have taken out a license. The license fee was fixed at *l. It was also resolved to request his Honor to take steps to have Haeley Park opened for fishing to holders of licenses. There are prospects of a good whaling season this year on our coast, whales being reported from the north as very plentiful. The Otago Daily Times < .sav.B:— "A member of a large mercantile house in London, writing to a friend in Dunediu

by the last Suez mail, says that it fe understood that Sir Julius Yogel has arranged to enter a London firm upon his retirement from political life in New Zealand. The particulars, he adds, have not transpired." Great dissatisfaction exists in Canterbury with railway charges, particularly for the carriage of coal between Lyttelton aud Chriatchurch, which, for a distance of about seven" miles, has been raised from 5s 6d, to 9s a ton. The carriage of timber has been raised for the same distance from Is 4d* to Is lOd per 100 feet. Merchants are beginuing to find that water carriage will beat railway carriage at these prices. The Greytown correspondent of the Heathcote Advertiser states that a miner in that town, named John Duvain, has come into the possession of £450,000. There are also two brothers, puddlers, of the same place, who have lately received the intelligence from America of a third brother having made provision for the annuity of £250 per annum for each of them for Kfe. At the meeting to consider the formation of a company to enlarge "Webley Brothers 1 cloth factory, it was decided to form a Provisional Directory, to fully investigate the business, and, if found satisfactory, to bring it before the public at an early date. Several influential gentlemen have already consented to join the Provisional Directory, and we hope shortly to hear that the investigation has warranted the com^ pany being formed. At the annual parade of stud horses held in Christchurch on Saturday, September 25th, there were sixty-three entries Of these three were imported thoroughbreds— Traducer, Albany, and Blueboy, the two latter got respectively by Thormanby and Beadsman, both Derby winners. There were nine colonial thoroughbreds, five sires for roadsters, one Arab stallion, nine imported cart horses, thirty - three colonial - bred draught horses, and three ponies. Between £55 and £60 was taken at the gates, representing from 11,000 to 12,000 persons. The show ground was a paddock of nearly twenty acres, so many fine animals in high condition must have been worth seeing. The 'aggregate value of these stud horses cannot be less that £25,000.