The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 245, 6 October 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1876.

A meeting of the members of the Nelson and Howard Lodges of Oddfellows will be held this evening to receive the Hall Committee's report. A meeting of the members of the Agricultural Association will be held at the Star and Garter, Eichmond, tomorrow evening, for the purpose of making arrangements for the Novembqp Show. We understand that Mr Roberts, the champion billiard player, will play at the Provincial Hali on Wednesday evening next. Eeserved ueats can be secured on application to M? Alex. M'Gee. All the arrangements have been well and carefully made, with a view to allowing the whole of the spectators to obtain a good view of the game. Seats specially reserved for ladies can be secured. We have received three letters regarding a rumored appointment to the post of Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, but so far as we can learn there is no basis on which to found such a rumor. Whoever is to be placed in charge should be a man of some experience, and the Provincial Government will no doubt take care to procure such an one. The work of distributing the young trout recently hatched in the ponds here has been carried oiit very successfully, the whole of the 250 sent 4o the Takaka and Aorere, with two exceptions, having been turned out in those rivers. Yesterday Mr Huddleston took 100 to the Happy Valley river, a stream that is extremely well adapted for these fish, and to-morrow hewill send some more to the Wairoa. As it had frequently been doubted whether the trout in the Maitai would rise to a fly, the experiment was tried yesterday, and at almost the first cast a fine one year old fish was hooked, thus setting the question at rest. We are sorry to find that an attempt to introduce trout into Marlborough from Canterbury has proved a complete failure. The Express of last Wednesday says:—-" It is a matter for great regret to learn that out of 1200 young tr«ut shipped for the Acclimatization Society by the last steamer from the South, not one survived the journey, notwithstanding great ease .taken by: Mr H. Eedwood in trying to preserve them."

r— t Y 1 Y ,—^a ' r\ A-' j ~ -V V' : i . Our telegrarasflrecentiyi informed Usi of the sudden jdeath of the Rev Pathej?| Petit-Jean of [Wellington, a gentlema&i f th^ esteem of\]riJs : i fellow citizens df a'lf denominations, "as will be seen by the following extract from the AH?. Z. Times :— " The regular weekly meeting of the managing committee „of,. the .Wellington Benevolent. Institution was held at the Provincial; Government' Buildings on Tuesday. Present: Right Rev Bishop Hadfield (in the .chair), Ven Archdeacon. Stock r Rev B W. Harvey, Rev J. Paterson, Messrs Lipman L<*vy and C. P< Powles, A resolution was passed expressing the sympathy of the committee with the Right Rev Bishop Redwood and his clergy iu the loss they have sustained by the death of the late Rev Father Petit-Jean, and their appreciation of the kindness and zeal withwhich the''- -late- rev father always furthered their work."