TOWN EDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 57, 9 March 1886, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886

A case of some hardship came before the Court this morning. A settler in 88 Valley named William Wells was surprised at receiving a summons on Friday in the name of the Queen to appear at the R. M. Court to-day to answer a demand for 4s, being- the amount of rate alleged to be due by him. under the Sheep Act. His surprise was occasioned by the fact that he had already paid the amount, and on turning- tip his papers he found the local postmaster's receipt for it dated last September. On Saturday he wired to the department in Wellington acquainting them with the facts but received no reply, and consequently he appeared in Court this morning, there to learn that Mr Campbell, the local Inspector, had last night received a telegram instructing him to withdraw the case, the summons having been issued in. error. Mr Wells naturally enough asked who was to pay his expenses, but the Magistrate said that he had no power to make an order for them, but that if he would make an application he would forward it to Wellington with a recommendation that he be reimbursed for his day's work and train fare. It is only fair to Mr Campbell to add that, in taking out the summons, he was acting in accordance with instructions received from the head of the department. We are sorry to lesrn that on the arrival of the Stella las. night with the whifcefish ova which were brought from San Francisco in the Alameda it was found that the experiment had proved a complete failure. Mr Catley, who was acting for Mr Greenfield, the Secretory of fche Acclimatisation Society, went on board, accompanied by Mr Nalder, and, together with Mr Farr, made an examination of fche boxes, with the result that the whole of the eggs were found to be bad. The Stella had on board the whole shipment for fche colony, and not merely for thia portion of ifc. Arrangements had been made for transporting the ova ab once to Lake Rotoiti, ond Mr Canning was ia attendance at the Port with a carriage for the purpose, in which he and Mr Nalder were to start immediately and to travel all night, and arrangements had been made for Mr Kerr to meet them ab the Lake, where he had made all the necessary preparations. As the whole of the contents were simply a mass of stinking putrefaction ib is rather surprising thab the trouble waß taken to send them down here, as the mosfc superficial examination at Auckland must have revealed fche condition in which they were. Among fche names of those who succeeded in passing- tbe University examination held i in Novemb?r last is that of Miss Will, a teacher afc the Girls' College, who passed fche first examination for the B.A. degree. The friends of Dr and Mra Maberly are inviied to a farewell social party to be held j to-morrow evening ab fche meeting houße Collingwood Street. Tea will be on the > table ab half pasb five. { The City Surveyor will return from Wellington by the Taiaroa to-morrow morning. The following handicaps were made last night for the races for the N.B.C. President's Cups to be rowed for on Saturday next: — No. 1 crew : A. Frazer, G. Harper, B. Jackson, and A. Jones (stroke). — No. 2 : J. Thompson, R. Catley, H. Rochforfc, W. Rogers (stroke)* — No. 3 : C. H. Black, F. Worsley, G. M. M'Lean, W. S. Curtis (stroke).— No. 4: W. M. Hassall, A. Mabin, H. -Boddington, T. Glasgow (stroke). The Rev A. C. Wright with his family arrived from Christchurch by the Hawea this morning and was met at the wharf by several of the members of his new congregation. He will be formally inducted as Incumbent of All Saint's Church this evening at 730. In the absence of Mr O. Curtis afc the University Senate, the B.M. Courfc was presided over this morning by Mr Turnbull. An interesting correspondence on " The Depression in Trade " has recently been going on in the Auckland Herald between Mr J. C, Firth on the one side, and Mr Milne on tbe other. The former opened the discussion in a paper of three chapters, and the latter replied in one of equal length. We purpose to re-publish the letters, believing that they will be read with interest here. The first of Mr Firth's letters will be found on tbe fourth page, where portions of the correspondence will appear daily until it is completed.

A lecture on "Mind and its Manifestation/." is to be given by Mr Sigley at the V.M CA- Rooms on Thursday evening next. NEiTBEa is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. —Acts IV., 13.— Advt, No family should be without it ; the most careful and abstemious will now and then have a twinge of stomachic pain ; no remedy is more reliable, none more infallible than Wolfe's Schnapps.

invalid for the time being of some of his o r her sufferings ; by children he was beloved, a true test of thelrindly nature of the man ; by his fellow men he was looked up to and held in the highest respect, for they could not fail to recognise his true worth. Conscientious to a degree, and a man of the strictest integrity, it was impossible to talk _to him for any time without being impressed by his thorough genuineness, or being made to feel, if the subjto. of conversation were at all of a serious oharact.r, that whatever the conclusion might be nt which he arrived it was the result of earnest conviction. In connection with the Cburch of England his loss will be severely felt, and more especially by the congregation of which he was, and had been for over a quater of a century, a most useful member. With one or two brief intervals, he had been a churchwarden at Christ Church almost continuously sinco 1863, and deep indeed will be the sorrow among those with whom he had worshipped for so long when thpy realise that they will see his kindly face again no more. As a member of the Masonic Order no man in New Zealand could be more missed. He had been W.M. of both the Southern Star and Victory Lodges, of the latter of wbich he was one of the founders, and ho had attained to the position of Z in the Royal Arch Chapter. Dr Scaly was born in India in 1822, and in 1854 he came to New Zealand, and made his home in the province of Taranaki, but in common with n grpnt many of the settlers in thafc district he migrated to Nelson about 18G0 in consequence of the Maori troubles, and has lived here ever since practising his profession until the end of last year, when he retired. He had for the last two years been in indifferent health, but recently the disease from which be suffered assumed a more acute form, and it has for some time past been known, by none more certainly than by himself, that the end was approaching, At nine o'clock this morning, peacefully as a child falling- asleep, and in possession of his senses to the last, he passed away without a struggle, leaving a widow and a large family to mourn his loss. His children have a proud inheritance in the knowledge that the community in which he had lived for five and twenty j r ears contained no man who was more highly esteemed, more truly respected, more thoroughly beloved than the good Doctor, whose loss so many are today lamenting.