TOWN EDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1886

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 141, 15 June 1886, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1886

tricts are greatly put obout by the threatened move, as it ia their best customers, the men wbo have money and pay their accounts regularly, who are about to leave them.

A pure stimulant wisely medicated with tonic and alterative vegetable agents is what the week and feeble need, and it has been provided in Wolfe's Schnapps, the puiest spirit in the world.

GOD IS LIGHT. I John 1 S.— GOD IS LOVE. John iv. 8 16.

Skinny Men. — "Wells' Health Kenewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia impotence, Debility. At druggists. Kemphome. Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

The accounts received to-day from the volcanic district in ihe North are anything hut reassuring. Tongariro shows every disposition to be exceedingly aggressive, and a violent eruption there would prove a most disastrous affair. However, aB the mountain has frequently before been very restless and loud explosions have been heard from its centre, it may be hoped that nothing more serious than has occurred before is going to happen now. The two native settlements appear to have been blotted out of existence, one being buried 20 feet deep in mud, and the other engulphed in Lake Tarawera. The particulars of the disaster will, however, never be known, as not a single native has survived to tell the awful story. There is now no hope whatever that the beautiful Terraces have been saved, and New Zealand has to deplore a truly national loss.

We understand that three cases of diphtheria have been reported in the family of Mr George Martin in St. John's street, near the Police Station. To one child ir. has proved fatal, and as no doctor was in attendance, and consequently no certificate of cause of death could be given, it was 'leeined necessary to hold &j)oist mortem examination and an inqu-st, which took place at the Nelson Hotel yeaterday afternoon, when a verdict was returned to the effect that the death was caused by diphtheria. The other patients, we learn from Dr Leggatt, are [ rogreseing favorably.

Extensive additions are being made to the Masonic Hotel, and are now near completion. They consist of a billiard room, 20ft x 26ft, kitchen, pantry, and offices on tie ground floor, and ten bedrooms and a bathroom in the upper storey. This will go far towards providing the additional accommodation which Mr Gilmer bo frequently finds that he requires, and will enable him now to provide sleeping accommodation for about forty lodgers. The late billiard room is converted into a dining room, for which purpose it is admirably suited. The new building, which is of brick, has been erected in a most substantial manner by Mr Dear.

The following tenders have been received by the Public Works Department for the Stockyard contract main road from Motueka to Takaka :— Henry Wratten, Motueka, £1274 (accepted) ; Timothy O'Keefe, Pelorus Valley, £1421 ; Robert Lyon, Nelson, £1457 11s 6d ; Daniel Bate, Riwaka, £1495; O'Leary and Day, Richmond, £1765.

A supplement containing full details of the volcanic eruptions in the North will be published with the Evening Mail on Friday nexf, in order to give our subscribers and others? an opportunity of sending the paper to their friends in Eagland by the mail which leaves Nelson on Saturday next.

St. Leon's Circus ia to perform at Wakefield this evening and to commence its season in Nelson to-morrow night.

A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs :— " Th c Bishop of Nelson consecrated the addition^ aisles of St. John's Church at Weetport on Sunday last, and held a confirmation at Chnrleston the same day. He h*ld a service in the Lyell Church last night."

It will interest many of our readers to learn that Mr Mcßae, whose thrilling narrative we published yesterday, is the grandson of an old Nelson settler, Mr George Mcßae, brother of the late Mr W. Mcßae of Richmond, and who at the time of his death was the proprietor of the Blarich run in the Awatere.

A MEETING of the Acclimatization Society was held last night for the purpose of discussing what should be done with the young salmon, of which there are some 14,000 in the ponds in the Govesnment grounds. The chair was taken by the Rev J. O. Andrew, Mr Greenfield, the Hon Secretary, read correspondence from the Secretary of the Canterbury Society, who advised liberating the whole of the fish in one stream. He further stated that the Marlborough Society had consented to pay the cost of sending some of the young fish to the Pelorus, and in the event of their receiving the fish to give equal facilities for fishing to members of the Nelson Society angling iv Marlborough to those enjoyed by their own members. Ultimately it was decided to turn 4000 into tho Aorere, Captain Walker having undertaken to convey them over and liberate them in a suitable place, 3000 in the Pelorus, and the balance in the Rotoiti stream. Tho services rendered by Mr Nalder in hatching out and attending 1 the fish were acknowledged, and a sum of £10 was voted him for the trouble he hnd taken.

The following paragraph appeared in the Post of Saturday : — "lt is reported that gold has been discovered at Karamea, on the West Coast, and that it is not improbable a rush may set in. Mr O' Conor, M.H.R., has received a letter from a man named Ray at Karamea stating that good gold is being obtained there. There are 35 men on the ground, making from £3 to £4 per week. Part of the country is driving ground, and part good sluicing ground. About a grain to the dish i 3 being obtained." We sincerely hope that this news is as true as it is good. Just now, when there is a widespreading disposition among the workers on our goldfields to be off to Kimberley, some additional attraction is muoh needed in New Zealand, and a goldfield on which there is a fair amount of certainty of making good wages is the very thing $bat is wanted.

We hear that there is likely to be an extensive exodus of miners from the Wesfc Coast to the Kimherley goldfield, the attractions of which, despite the climate, are too powerful to bo resisted by tho restless diggers, storekeepers in the mining disi