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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 187, 8 August 1881, Page 2

-At the Police Court this morning before Mr Dodson, J.P., John August Stroinberg, who was arrested at Havelock, atd brought into town by Constable White, and Christian Herman, who was arrested by Constable Benaetnann at the Moutere, weie charged with deserting from the barque Black Watch, and ordered to bo sent on board at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning. We remind our rraders of the enterlaiument to Le given f.t the Shelbourne street schoolroom this ev?niiiiug in aid of the building fund. The programme comprises a number of .ittrccuve items, including per-fnnnaocc-3 on tfie pianoforte by Madame Summa-li&ye>!, which sloue should be sufficient to ensure a hir^e altetdance. Owing to the jiltc-ralion in the railway tima Uhi2 tha if.spectiois of the btcke and Witim&a Killss v/ns held in town on Saiurday evening, both corps arriving by the 7 15 tcp.iu. Captsiu Webb, the District Adjutant, havmg issued an order for the town corps to parade at the same time with the country corps for battalion drill, the Artillery aud A aval Brigade mustered well, but the City Rifles not having sufficient members present to represent the corps were dismissed before the battalion marched off. Tae parade was held in the Botauical Reserve under command of Captain Webb, and the various m vementa vvere very well performed, the marching paes aad wheeling especially being

excellent. The muster was-— Artillery, 35; Stoke Rifles, 50; Waiirea Rifles, 45; Naval Brigade, 21; Battalion Band, 12; Staff, 2. A meeting of the Salvage Corps will bo keid this evening at half-past seven. " Unfeu thfl jratronago of the vrhule of the frsf/iLiLkcrs in Nelson,' I—so1 — so the advertiseUieut stated — Mr Manning, the ventriloquist of the Maimno'.b Gift Show Company, read Colonel Infjersoll'a lecture entitled " The Mistakes of Mosea" to an Giidienhe of beWeen thirty and forty at the Theatre last night. Mr. Levkstam is to ask leave of the House to introduce a bill to authorise the Construction of a. Patent Slip in Kelson Harbour; apd to torovide ah endowment in support of the cost of the construction thereof. Thk following appears on the Order Paper for Friday next :— Mr. Pitt to move, That in every judicial district of the Supreme Court, hot .having a , Judfje ot the Court resideht within such district, the Registrar should have conferred upon him by law power to sit in Chambers and to do all matters and things which can be dofae by a Judge of the Court sitting in Chambers (except making orders of Court) ; and that the Government be requested to bring in a Bill during the present session to give effect to this resolution.