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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 222, 18 September 1880, Page 2

! The teapot is still boiling over at lutercargill, and an "indignation meeting" was held last night to protest against the alteraitkn of the local railway time table. A long !telegrain containing the Bames of the chairman and speakers aud the full text of a memorial adopted by the meeting to be forwarded to the Minister for Public Works lies in our waste paper basket. The beautiful camellia' bush planted by Mr Bartlett in his garden in Washington :Valley is once more in full bloom, and is a sight well worth seeing. , Visitors will be '.welcomed by the new proprietors, Mr and jMra Brandford. 1 Tub annual meeting of the members of the Nelson Fire Brigade was held last night, .when all the officials were re-elected. Theae ■were as follows : — Captain Lightfoot ; Lieutenant Bird ; Mr Wimsett, Foreman of the Hook and Ladder Company j Mr Gay, Foreman of No. T Company j Mr Rowlings, Foreman of No. 2 Company ; Mr Little, Foreman of the Fire Company ; Mr Cooksey, 'Secretary 5 Mr MeConkey, Treasurer. The (election over, Captain Lightfoot expressed his gratification at the result, and congratulated the Brigade upon tbo good feeling an unanimity that prevailed amongst the members, and expressed the hope that such might always be the case. The balance sheet jshovved a credit balance of £6 12s 6d, although there had been considerable expenditure during the year in increasing the appliances of the Brigade, the members of which Stated that so long as the public continued |,heir support they would give their services, and continually add to their plant. It was resolved that ' the' annual dinner should take place as usual. We canhot conclude our notice of the meeting withput placing on record what we believe to be the public senße of appreciation of the services of this very useful body, who appear to have adopted as their motto— " Heady, aye ready." Fortunately, the demand for iheir services during the past year has not been great, but they have so frequently $how their alacrity and the excellent, discipline that prevails in the company under the command of their energetic captain, that ihe citizens have learned to listen with bomparative composure to the clanging of the alarm bell, knowing full well that the Brigade will be almost instantaneously at ihe scene of the fire, and that in them, backed up as they are by a splendid water Bupply, the flames will very soon find their master. \ We desire to correct an error that was inadvertently made in a paragraph in yesterday's issue regarding the traffic on the Nelson railway, when, underthe head of average receipts and expenditure per mile for the twelve-monthly period, the figures for the Picton line were, given instead of those for the Nelson railway. Thus the average Receipts per mile were stated to be £299 11s 2d and the expenditure £263 13s 9d, instead of which the figures should have been £424 lls 2d and £325 respectively, which gives a return, over and above working expenses, of nearly £100 per mile. ; The last of the entertainments this season at the Christ Church Sunday school room will take place on Monday evening next, when the promoters have every right to expect a crowded bouse, ' The programme which appears in our advertising column is a really excellent one, and the performers who are to give their services comprise many of the leading amateurs in the district. We regret 10 learn that death, which has of late been unusually busy in our midst, has carried off another victim, Mr Jacob Frank having succumbed this morning to a short bub sharp attack of bronchitis. Mr Frank, who waa very generally respected, was one of the earliest of the Nelson settlers, having arrived here in 1842 in the ship St. Paul's. . , „..-, „. \ '. Our, telegrams 'yesterday announced the departure of a large number of tradesmen and others from Wellington, but the exodus ia not confined to that port. The Auckland S(ar of Saturday last says :— (< There is an extraordinary outflow of labor from the colony just now. The Rotomahana took 130 steerage passengers for Sydney today, and had to have berths fitted up in the Hold. Many of these men will find, they have made a mistake,"

The Auckland Star of Monday says:^-Mr J. Beckenbam, o£ Nelson city, delivered a pleasant lecture at the Industrial Home, on Saturday evening, full! of incident and life, oh his " Travels auiongst the Blacks in Australia;" The lecture was eminently descriptive, anecdotal, and picturesque ; illustrative of the life, habits, and manners of the aborigines, showing their modes of catching fish, opossum and kangaroo huutiag, and their tribal and social customs. The lecture, occupying 90 minutes, was interesting throughout, and listened to with much interest.