LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1806, 5 September 1874, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Football, —The return match between the Artillery and Town will be continued this afternoon in the Botanical Gardens. At the conclusion of the game, a meeting of the members of the team chosen to play against Wellington will be held, for the purpose of electing a captain and transacting other

business. Enteetainment. —We remind our readers of Mrs Palmer's entertainment being repeated on Monday next, with some substitutions in the programme, which will, we think, prove attractive. The Cotjets.—There were no cases set down for hearing at the Police Court yesterday. There was to have been a sitting in bankruptcy, but in consequence iof his Honor Judge Richmond's absence, the oaaes were postponed till Friday next.

Mb Ckeighton, M.H.R.—We learn from a reliable authority thafc Mr Creighton, M.H.R., is aboufc to leave Dunedin for England, where he will act as an Immigration Agent. _ / City Council.—A meeting of the City Council \ was held last evening, but the business transacted was nofc of muoh publio interest. A Committee was appointed to wait on the Superintendent with regard to the Gas and Waterworks, and Mr Bleoher's tender was accepted for the Waimea-street sewer. Lady Votebs. —Our lady readers will doubtless be pleased to hear thafc all of them who hold property, and have paid their rates for the past year, will be entitled to vote at the forthcoming City Council election. Mr Hooper brought the question under fche notice of the Council at last night's meeting. It is rumored that a number of our Provincial Councillors will leave this City by fche s.s Murray to-morrow for Westport, with the intention of being present afc the turning of the firsfc sod of the Westport and Ngakawau railway. Good Templabs —At the meeting last nighfc, ten new members were made. In the paßfc month, the number of new members amount to sixty. Dog Poisonino.—During the last week, a large number of dogs of all description and sizes, hunting dogs, pet dogs, sheep dogs, and other dogs, have been destroyed by poison in this City. There can be no doubt thafc there is something at the bottom of it, for not only have animals roaming about the streets been found dead, but watch dogs on their chains have actually been made away with during the night. The public would do well to take a timely hint, and fasten their doors and windows securely before retiring for the night. The police aro on the look out, and the name ofthe only person in Nelson City who has purchased strychnine during the last month ia known. English and Austbalian Telegbams.—From some unexplained cause, best known to the Agency in Wellington, we did not receive our telegrams by the Alhambra, which arrived at Hokitika on Thursday night. The Citizens' Roll. —We understand that more than one gentleman who intended to come forward as a candidate for a seat in the City Council has been prevented from doing so in consequence of their names having been omitted from the Burgess Roll. The fault is, however, their own, for the Municipal Corporations Aot distinctly sets forth that the electors' names must be on the roll on the 20th June preceding the day of election. It is probable that an effort will be made to have tbe Act amended during the next session of Parliament. Volunteees. —The usual monthly inspection of city Volunteers and Cadets, took place on Thursday evening afc the Drill Shed. The whole were formed into line and inspected by Captain Pitt. The corps turned out in good numbers: —City Artillery, 40 ; Band, 12; City Rifles, 32 j City Cadets, 30; Cadet Artillery, 40. After the inspection the two adult companies, headed by the band, marched to the Port and back. The Hobticultubal Society held a meeting at the Masonic Hotel on Wednesday evening last, at whioh about twenty members were present, Mr H. Adams occupying the chair. Ifc was decided fco hold two shows annually, one in fche latter end of November, and one in the beginning of March. The following gentlemen were appointed officers for fche ensuing year:—President, Mr. F. Huddlestone ; Secretary, Mr. H. Adams; Treasurer, Mr. Fell; and Messrs Watkins, Broad, Gully, and Pickering Committeemen. The subscription to the Society is fix«d at 10s. per year, and will entitle each holder to a family ticket for both shows; the admission to each show for non-subscribers will be ls. We hope that now these shows are made periodical events, Nelson will by them prove herself worthy to retain the name she -has fairly earned of the "Garden of New Zealand." Doing Justice to a Public Man.—Both Houses of Assembly met on Saturday but the business was merely of a formal character, and occupied only a very short time. In the Lower House, the Hon. Mr Reynolds made an explanation with regard to some remarks which had been made by the Minister of Justice (the Hon. Mr Bathgate) during last session, having reference to the discharge of the duties of agent for the Curator of Intestate Estates by Mr George Donne, J.P. Mr Reynolds supplemented his statement by reading au official document; on the subject of the remarks made hy the then Minister of Justice, and both the statement and the document went to exonerate Mr Donne from the insinuations which, under misapprehension, had been made against bim. The explanation wag specially made with a view to its being recorded in Eansard, in which the previous statement had been reported.— New Zealand Times, August 31. Mr Henky Willis, we believe late of Richmond, has been appointed master of the Mount Cargill district scliool, Otago. Unclaimed Letters. —The following is a list of the letters received afc fche Post-office, Nelson, during the month of May, and remaining auclaimed *on the 31st August, 1874 :— Allen, Mary Jackson, C. T. Aldridge, Mrs Hannah Lister, Miss Annie Brown, J. F. Lovell, W. Bush, George . ■ Lloyd, Mias Bftldief^in.' Logan, A. J. '" Caifco, A. H. Mabille, T Cullen, Mr Murphy, Mrs Cirgwin, Martin Mitchell, Mr Cotter, 0. Nairn, Mrs E. Conway, M. G. M'Kinnon, D. Driscoll, Daniel M'Nasser, Wm. Farral, James Newton, Irvine-, & Co. Fiven, Mr Organ, Gretta Griffiths, John, junior O'Connor, M. Glen, Brothers Price, John Gaby, George Stevens, T. P. & Co. Hooper, T. Strong, Jane Hoond, Mrs Stevenson, James Hollis, Mr. Tomlinson, Mrs E. Hyde, W. H. Wakley, Mr. In Need oe Wobk.—Several ofthe new arrivals by the Adamant complain that they cannot get employment in Westporfc, that the railway contractor will not give tbem work, and that no one else needs their services. The Provincial Government might well afford to make some temporary outlay on the roads here that will give any men needing employment the means of earning at least their tucker. Some of the new arrivals have applied throught the Mayor of Westporfc to get their passages back to Nelson paid by the Government. A request not likely to be granted, but injustice to the men work should be given them. — Westport Times. The Wellington Tribune says :—Apropos to some of the members being burned in effigy in Auckland, the following conversation was overheard in the lobby 1 yesterday. A wag was chaffing a certain member from Auckland, aboufc his effigy being stuffed with i kauri gum. The hon. member, laughing, said, , " Kahore, I don't care a F.I.G. for them." The wag i gave the retort by saying "No but you're Lucky that you were not in Auckland at the time." 1 The Inangahua Quartz Crushing and Goldmining 1 Company are getting 23 tons of machinery from 1 Mnlbourne. The Lyell Argus says that the late Perseverance I Company's machinery, is to be ereoted at New Creek, in that district. The return of the Wealth of Nations claim (Inangahua) for fche month, was 3290zs 18dwts of ' melted gold. On Anguet 29th, a meeting ofthe directors was held when a dividend of. Is per share was declared. The whole of the crushing plant is working in a highly satisfactory manner, and there is c plenty of stone to operate upon. a Pbivate trials ot a new steamboat for use on the 6 canals, the Iron states, are now engrossing Q the attention of several eminent engineers. '" In this boat the old paddle-wheel and the screw are r discarded, and a new method of propulsion is used, in which the los 3of power is reduced (it is said) to 8 a minimum. J A novel kind of fluid was Jused fe at the ' " christening," of a schooner lately built at ir Catlin's River for Messrs. Guthrie and 0 Larnacb, viz.—a bottle of yeast. The craft 16 was Bomewhat inappropriately named the 18 "Band of Hope."