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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1895, Page 2

Telkguaimiic communication with Europe is interrupted. At a meeting of the Town Schools Committee last evening the chairman, Mr. J. Gralniin, stated that he had received n lotter from a person asking him to use his (Mr. Graham's) influence as M. 11. K. in obtaining an appointment for the writer, but, added Mr Graham, the writer had forgotten to sign or give his name. Members of tljo Committee smiled at this. A convocation of tljo Trafalgar Koyal Arch Chapter will be held in tlje Masonic j Hall this evening at half ■ past seven | o'clock. Tjik usual monthly meeting of the mem. bers of the Victory Lodge will be held this evening, to which visiting brethren are cordially invited. A uonsE in a trolly belonging to Mr J. Hyde, general carrier, narrowly missed breaking its fore leg in Bridge Street to-duy opposite the AuakUnd Clothing Company's promises, A culvert undef the road caved in suddenly, and tbe horse's loot went light through the crust of the road. The driver thoughtfully had a box placed over the hole to warn others of their danger. F.yiiewkll addresses were delivered morning and evening on Sunday last by the Key T. Bray in the Nelson Baptist Church. There were lar<;e congregations at each service and a children's service in the afternoon was nl.-so well attended. The Key Mr Bray took advantage of the occasion to bid farewell to the deacons of the Church, and thanked both them and the choir for their hearty co-operation during his ministration in Nelson. At the close of the epening service the Lord's supper was partaken, of. Ki'KAKisu at tho meeting of the Town Schools Committee last evening tl>e chair- , man said that the arithmetic examination papers for the last examination had been rather stifFer than before. Previously they had been prepared by the Inspeelniybiit on this occasion they had been prepared by the Education Department, nml were made pretty stiff. Consequently many scholars failed. One teacher in Nelson assured him that the scholars (girls in this case) could be made to do the sums, but if so it must be at the sacrifice of some other subjects. The scljooj was open 4.|j hours daily and! %yhat with needlework, domestic economy etc., which the boys did uot learn, it was too much to expect the girls to gjive timo to the study of arithmetic eiiunl to that of the hoys. Several lnoinbens of tlje CommittccquestionedthedesirabJonosuQf devoting so much time to instructing girls in arithmetic. They doubtod whether their time might not be more fittingly employed. The Committee deferred consideration of tho nr.ittcr pending a return to be niiulc by Mr. (iibbs. Final arrangements for the Forester's, Fete were mado by the Committee at ameeting held last evening. Satisfactory ' entries are being made for the handicaps ' and will be received up to Thursday evening next. Miss D.ui'i' advertises in another column :tba,t she is prepared to receive pupils for t))e pianoforte etc. Tlje tenu will commence tomorrow January 23rd. Tub charges for admission to "The New Boy " arc announced at ij- 2/6 and. 1/.

Mr. Proust has been appointed Postmaster at Matakitaki and tho postal business will in future bo carried on at his premises. Accordino to the Hokilika Guurdianii is probable that a Volunteer encampment will be held at Greymouth next Easter. Delegates from the Oddfellows, Foresters, Eochabites, and Druids, comprising the Nelson Friendly Societies' Vigilance Committee, met in tho Forestors' Hall last evening, Mr J. Piper presiding. The Chairman explained that the meeting had been c.Ulecl at the request of the Howard Lodge, for the purpose of considering a circular and petition from the Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand as to private Benefit Societies, Having read the circular, together with a reply thereto by the Union Steam Ship Company's Sooiety, the matter was discussed, with the result that the following resolution was carried unanimously: " That the Friendly Sooieties in Nelson do not see their way to support the Federated Seamen's Union in petitioning the Legislative Council to abolish the Union Steam Ship Company's Mutual Benefit Sooiety and other private Benefit Sooieties, but they are of opinion that the Union Stoam Ship Mutual Benefit Society and other private Benefit Societies should be registered in conformity with the Friendly Societies Act. It was also resolved that the various Lodges in this district be served with a copy of tho foregoing resolution. It is the intention of the Nelson Dtamatio Society to give an entertainmont at Motuekn shortly. The proceeds will be for the benefit of tho Hall fund. Sik Joseph Abbott, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, and chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, is at present in Wellington partly on pleasure and partly on business connected with the A. M. P, Society. He is accompanied by Lady Abbott. Mr. Richard Tcece tho Society's well known General Manager is also in Wellington. ■Shops where postage stamps are sold or where there are money order offices or telephone exchanges wil be kept open during the weekly half-holiday for official purposes, but not for the sale of goods. This must be pleasant for tho keepers of the shops or the persons whom they have to leave in attendance. A Yooso lady, Miss Alice Mitchell, of Gore, Southland, has achieved one of the most notable bicycle rides ever accomplished by a lady in New Zealand. Miss Mitchell, with her young brother, started from Gore early one morning, and covered between that place and Cliristchureh, some 355 miles in seven days. Is regard to a dispute between the Wellington Education Board and the Carterton School Cominittoe as to the selection of a teacher, it has been decided by the minor body that a report of the whole dispute shall be laid before the Minister of Education, with a view to getting the powers of Committees more clearly defined. The Hawcra Star states that a painful scene occurred in the District Court on Wednesday last at the termination of the case against the young man Lett, who was convicted of indecent assault. When His Honour commenced to deliver sentence, the father of Lett, who had been in Court all day, rose, and in most excited terms implored His Honour to hang the boy rather than imprison him. His whole life, he said, was bound up in the boy. He was ordered to sit down, but would not until threatened with ejeotion. When the laijl was being taken to the Police Station the father followed, yelling at the polioe to release his son. The affair createa a painful impression on those who witnessed it. It is probable that the ranks of the medical profession in Nelson will Ije swelled during the present year by tho arrival of Dr Daniel O'Sullivan, son of |Professor O'Sullivan, J.P., of the National Board of Education, Ireland, and grandson of Mrs Berne, of Brook-street Yalloy, Nelson. The gentleman, referred to is only 30 years of age, and attained the highest honours in Trinity College, Dublin, and succeeded in taking his M.D. degree at an unusually eddy age. We clip tho following flattering notice of him from the Dublin Herald of October 27th last:—" The promise given by a sbccosifu} College and University career has been notably "borne out jn the case of Dr Daniel O'Snllivan, son of 'Professor O'Sullivan, J.P., formerly of the National Education Board. Dr 6'Sulliv.in, after a most successful course of study, first at the French College, Blackrock, and afterwards at Trinity College, where he wa3 a gold medallist, entered on the practioo of medicine in London, where he had much and varied experience, nil tending to develop the great natural ability which ho brought to tbe practice of hi 9 profession. A little iuo»o fhan a year ago Dr 0 Sullivan undertook tho {emijoriiry charge ot a large medical practice at Zanzibar, mainly impelled thereto by a desire to cxtencj his knowledge of n)e<]jejne by the experiences of suoh a special opportunity, An<Ji according to the official reports, he had amplo occasion of displaying his professional skill, with the result of establishing such a reputation, that when tho timo arrived for his return home, tho Foreign Ofllce, through Lord Kitnberley, interposed with an offer to the doctor to appoint him her Majesty's Vice Consul at tbe island of Pemba, near Zanzibar, where a skilled and strong representative was required tv ohoak $he attempts that arc being made to utilise the island as n basis for the revival of the slave trade. Edison's Kinetosccpic has now been made a practical machiue, and the series of pictures, smaller than lantern slides, arc exhibited in a cabinob less than 4ft in height. The light and motion are con. tributed by electricity, and the spectator sees what appears to be moving figures going through a dumb show. Someday the phonograph will bo attached and the interest ,\vi 1 be very considerably increased. Mr Win, Lock will adl on Thursday next tho whole of the furniture and effects of Captain Wbitwcll, who is leaving Nelson. The list includes a firstolass piano by Broadwood & Sons.