The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 68, 19 March 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

Captain Bunny received a telegram from Major Pitt this morning stating that the Colonial Government Steamer Hinemoa will call at this port on Thursday next in order to convey local Volunteers to Christchurch for the purpose of taking part iv the review to be held there on Easter Monday. We should imagine tbat this opportunity of visiting the " City of the Plains " would be largely availed of by our local Volunteers, more especially that the holiday will be a most inexpensive one, the Government conveying the Volunteers without cost, and we understand that each man will only be put to the expense of about 10s for his keep whilst at Christchurch. Already we learn that the Stoke Rifle Corps, almost to a man, intends proceeding to the Review, and it is highly probable that at the meeting to be held at the Drill Shed at 8 o'clock to-night, the other corps will signify their intention of taking part in the military mat_o3uvres so that we hope to hear of Nelson being well represented. Nor do we think that the visit of our Nelson men to Christchurch will be without effect, for we hope that it will be the means of a larger number of the Christchurch Volunteers visiting Nelson next year in order to take part in the Rifle Association meeting. It is notified that services in the Bishopdale Chapel will be resumed on Sunday next at seven p.m. The annual picnic in connection with the Sunday school of Trinity Church took place yesterday in Maitai Valley, and was very numerously attended. Prizes were distributed by Rev P. Calder, who thanked the friends of the school for their liberal contributions, and spoke of the education to be obtained from books, and the great practical utility of n -n-pil. furnished library. Mr. A. J. Richmond addressed the electors at Stoke last niylit, when there was a fair attendance. Mr Alfred Harley, who was voted to the chair, explained tho object of the meeting, and said it was not necessary to introduce Mr Richmond, as he was so well known to all. Mr Richmond then addressed the meeting for about an hour and a half in almost a similar speech as that delivered by him at Richmond the previous night. After a few questions had been put by Mr Rout and others, and answered apparently to the satisfaction of the meeting, Mr Naylor proposed a vote pf thanks to Mr Richmond for his handsome present of £15 to their library' given shortly after the last election, and added also a vote of thanks for his address that night aud confidence in him as their member. Mr Richmond returned thanks for their confidence in him, and assured them that he had done the best he could for the district, and as long as he continued to be their member he would endeavor to do so, and concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Chairman. Mr. H. A. Levestam is exhibiting in one of the windows of Messrs E. Buxton and Co.'s stores in Trafalgar street au exceedingly pretty and well finished steam engine. .The "Excelsior," for so tbo maker calls' the

engine referred to, in every particular bears favorable comparison with siriiilar, pieces oi: mechanism manufactured by English oi' foreign makei-s, wnilst, as regards cost, we are given to understand that Mr Levestam can supply his Excelsior engines, together with boiler and other necessary adjuncts, at a far less price than ihey could be imported for. Under these circumstances it may bb expected that thb ihakfer will soon have his bands full of orders, and judging froth the engine which Mr Levestajti has how iri use at his 'establishmehti And whicb is siriu'lar to the bhe under notice, these little steam engines will prove most useful for a great variety of purposes. Ova Motueka correspondent writes as follows! —"judge Broad attended the Court to-day (Wednesday.) A very interesting case of the ownership of a lamb between Messrs White and Guy was decided in favor of the plaintiff, as tbe defendant Cotild not prove the maternity, not having taken the usual hiethod of arriving at a cohblusiori. and the lamb was ordered tobe returned and the costs ot the Court paid by the defendant. Mr Moore, of Messrs Pitt and Moore; defended,— An adjourned case of horse tres passing was given against the defendant, who had by- the adjournment more than doubled his costs, — Ini another casea man was bound over to keep the peace for six months because he had said that a certain person knew as much kbout a barge as the barge knew about him\ aud further telling him that ho, was ah expletive Road Board eipletive.— James Fowler, of the "Travellers' Rest, was convicted ou his own evidence in a former case of haviog supplied liquor to a drunken man, and was fined £-2 and costs. — There were a few other trivial cases.— ln the Assessment Court there were three appeals, two of which were heard and a reduction granted." Mr. Marsden has just imported from Canterbury a two-tooth Cotswold stud ram, purchased by him from Mr J. T. Ford, and bred out of a Cirencester College ewe, bred by Mr Russell Swannick, Master of the Agricultural College. The sire is a ram bred by Robert Gome, Esq., of Aldswortb, Gloucestershire. Both sire and dam were imdorted by Mr Ford. Mr Marsden has also purchased some Leicester stud rams from the Hon M. Holmes, which were bred from ewes imported from, the Duke of Bucleuch's and Lord Polwarth's flocks. The sires are the ram Normanby ; which is allowed to be the best ram in New Zealand, and Ringlet, bred by Messrs Gillies and Street from imported stock. A Shropshire stud ram has also been bought by Mr Marsden from John Grigg, Esq., of Long Beach, Canterbury, and is from imported stock on both sides, purchased by Mr Grigg from Lord Chisham.