Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue XV, 19 November 1880, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1 880.

We very much regret to learn that the poor fellow Giblin who, as was reported .'yesterday, met with so serious an accident in. being kno«ked down, by a run-away horse, .died at tne Hospital this morning at 8 o'clock. He leaves a young widow and one child. An inquest will be held at five o'clock this ■ afternoon. • : The Hon. Mr Rolieston, the Minister of Justice, passed through Nelson this morning in the Hawea on hiaway to New Plymouth. , ; The mortar'remains of the late Mr A. J. Richmond were conveyed to Nelson by the Hawea, which arrived here this morning, it being the desire of hia friends that the interf ment should take place at the New Ceme T tery. Shortly after two o'clock the funeral left the family rssidence, " The Cliffs," and such was the esteem in which the deceased ■was held that the remains were followed to their last resting place by a very large number of citizens and settlers from the surrounding districts. Many of the places of business in town were closed during the afternoon, :.and all. the shipping in port had tbeir flags at half-mast, whilst a similar token of respect •was paid at the several establishments in • town where bunting is customarily displayed! ■Of the large number who attended the funeral, without exception each individual felt the loss of one highly esteemed, whilst : the utmost compassion was and is felt^for : his sorrowing and sadly bereaved family. We are requested by the Honorary Secretary of tho Horticultural Society to inform ' the prize winners that they can obtain the i amoUnt of their prizes on application at the' office of Messrs Fell and Atkinson, Hardy- ■ . street. It will be understood that prizes not ■ claimed within thirty days are presented to ; the Society. '•■ Mr; Proctor addressed another crowded audience last sight, the Theatre being again crowded in every part — front, back, and gallery. The subject of the lecture was "The Moon our Companion Planet," and some curious facts were stated illustrative ; 6f the' difference in the condition of life on the earth and in the moon. The heat in our 'Companion planet at its midday and the cold at its midnight bad been ascertained to be so 'intense* as to be wholly incompatible with -the existence of any 'organism living on the :-- earth. About 420 millions of. years ago Mr Proctor computed that the moon must have been in the earth's present condition, and in about 250 million years more the earth will probably arrive at the dead stage already: reached by the moon: In concluding his lecture Mr Proctor alluded to the mistaken idea f ithai; once existed that the little earth we ; occupy, :was\;the centre of the uuiverse,; iwherejas^p^Uwfi knew that.it was but the. mereS speck in the solar system, and that

the solar system again was but a trifle in the galaxy of suns and stars around it, and further that that galaxy was, as it were, an atom .only in the infinity of space. And as it was with space so was it with Jtime, which we bad once supposed was conterminous with •the earth, whereas the whole history of our world was but a second in that of the solar system, and that of the stars but a moment in the vastness of eternity. With some, beautiful and appropriate lines from the poet Goethe Mr Proctor brought to a close a series of lectures which, it is not an exaggeration to say, have enchanted the numerous' audiences that have listened to them uight after night. We are glad to learn that there is a probability of our receiving another visit from Mr Proctor in the course of a few weeks. The Nelson Cricket Club will send a team toWakefield to-morrow to try conclusions with the Wakefield Club. The Nelson team will leave the Masonic corner by coach at 7 o'clock in the morning, and will comprise the following players :— Messrs Balmain, Boddinglon X, Boddington H., Campbell, Firth (captain), Foote, Greenfield, Halliday, Holmes, Lawry, and Naylor.