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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2761, 25 September 1880, Page 3

St Mary's Chdrch.—A notice regarding the services in this Church, and St Joseph's at Wakefield, to-morrow, will be found in our advertising columns. Nelson Cricket Club.—The annual meetiDg of this Club was held in the Masonic Hall last eyeniDg, Mr H. Halliday in the chair, when there was a fair attendance of members. After Mr Topliss, the secretary, had read the balance-sheet, which showed the Club to_ be in a satisfactory condition, the following gentlemen were elected officers of the Club. President, A. J. Richmond, Esq., M.H.R.; Captain, A. Greenfield, Esq.; Field-Captain, Mr Firth; Secretary, Mr Topliss. Committee— Meßsrs Halliday, Firth, Riohmond, Foot, F. Greenfield, and Naylor. AuditorsMessrs Hodgson and Clouston. Some discussion took place relative to the interprovincial matches to be played this season, but it was resolved to communicate with the Wakefield Club before any arrangements were made. It was also resolved that the opening match ef the season will be played next Saturday, between elevens to be picked on the ground. We understand that a match will be played in Nelson during Christmas week with the Hawera Club, from whom a ohallenge was received. The Weatheb.— Captain Edwin reported at 4-37 pirn yesterday, as follows:—" Bad weather approaching, any direction botween north-weat and south-west; glass further . fall." ' ' ! Carbine Club.—Entries for the forthcoming handicap will close, at the Nelson Hotel, on Monday evening next, and the firing will take place on the morning of the Ist, the afternoon of the 2nd, and the morning of the 4th October. In consequence of the growing popularity of this club, it is anticipated that the number of entries will be more numerous than ever. The Carbine Club having sent challenges to the Dunedin and Invercargill Clubs to a friendly match' with the carbine, preliminaries have been arranged, and the match will take place at the Maitai Butts on Monday morning, at 6-30 a.m. The ranges are 300, 400, and 500 yards, five, shots at each range ; and the following ten have been selected to do battle on behalf of Nelson:—: Lieuts. Crossman and Hunter, P. O. Bowlings, Gunners Moore, Clouston, 'Twist, and H. Wimsett, junr., Seamen Moore, Fathers, and Bennet. ' ' Harmonic Society.—On Thursday evening, the. Provincial Hall was crowded to excess upon the occasion of the first concert given by this newly organised Society. As so large a number of those who ocoupied the benches bad enrolled themvelves members of the Harmonic Society so recently, it wag not fair to anticipate that the concert would go off with the precision to be expected from an old established S >ciety, and, consequently, it is not fair to criticise too harshly. We may state, however, that, the ohoruses in the second part went off with far more spirit and precision than thoße which preoeded, and we particularly refer to " The Song of the Vikings." With regard to solob, duetts, S-c, it would perhaps be invidious to refer to these separately ; suffice it to Bay that on the whole they were well executed, whilst one or two really deserve stronger enoomiume, The initruroental, portion of the concert was exo^ionally good, and it was very evidant that th?audienoe wa» well pleated with the concert ai a whole. Photogbaphio Pobtbaits of the members of the Home of Representative* have on several oc«aiiono been taken and grouped by Wellington artists, and varying a» their quality has been, the collections hare always been prized as recordi of the personal appearanco of the elect of the people. Last leision, Mr W. B. Gibbi, who wai well and favorably known in Nelson, while practising his art among üb, took a bolder flight, and initead of the cartes de visite, which had formerly been taken, made his set of portraits of cabinet size. The result has been that the completed group is far more striking and effective, and that the individual portraits will be far more popular among the friends of the originals. As specimens of the photographic art the collection will bear" comparison with tie best productions in any country; and as Mr Gibbs #as sent copies of the group to the Melbourne Exhibition, the Victorians will be able to ompare the exterior of our representative^ with that of their own with every advantage that the remarkable skill and taste of the rtist can confer. Small-pox has broken out i». a Very gevero format Sau Francisco. . V

OubSuppmiment.—Numerous items by the San Francisco Mail an article on the Ministry and their policy, and other reading matter will be found in our Supplement this morning. An* railway employee becoming insolvent : is to be dismissed from the Public Service. What :about the other departments ? 1 Noblb Aot.—Mr Holds worth announced at a meeting 0/ the Benevolent Institution that the Hon. *Mr Waterhouse, M.L.0., had handed him three cheques, one representing 'a gift of £42 to the institution, another a donation of £21 to the Young Men's Christian Association, and the third of £63 to the Ladies' Christian Association, thus absorbing the whole of his honorarium. Acts of this description require no comment. — Posi, Sop-, tember 22. An Absentee's Claim.—A claimant has arisen to a number of valuable sections in Hoßtings street, Napier, in the person of the Hon P. S..'Solomon, lately" appointed acting Attorney-general for Fiji. It appears,that years 'ago Mr Solomon, who was afterwards practising »b a solicitor at Sydney, bought those two sections, and gave a power of attorney toMr Charles Davis to aot for him ; but it is alleged that the power of attorney gave no authority to sell. Mr Davis did sell the Beotions, and they subsequently paused through many hands. The Bank of New Zealand is acting for Mr Solomon, and Mr Lascelles has been instructed to take proceedings to recover the property. Mr Solomon, at about the time he purchased tho sections, 'was in partnership with Mr Fletcher as millowners at Mongonui and Auckland, and the ; land was bought in the joint names, apparently as a partnership transaction, and when the sections were sold about 1864, the conveyances were signed by Mr Fletcher for himself, and by Mr Davis for Mr Solomon. Case of Drowning at Picton.—The police have received information that a man named Harris Busch was drowned, at 2 o'clock on "Sunday, by the upsetting of a boat in Watermoonga Bay, six miles from Picton. .Three large stones, weighing between two and three pounds each, were found in the stomach of a valuable horse at Manawatu, and are supposed to have been the cause of death. The stones were of a dark green color, and the consistency of hard mortar. Queensland legislators pay for their own Hansard by subscribing 10s a member to a Brisbane journal for issuingit. The Timaru papers report the funding of a laughing-jackass in. their district. Curious Breach of Promise Case.—At Adelaide on September 16th, Mr Noble a member of the firm of Main Noble & Co., sued Mrs Ellen Crawford for breach of promise, damages £500. Defendant was housemaid at an hotel. Noble discovered she was possessed of property, proposed and was accepted. He drew £1000 out of the firm for the expense of furnishing, on the Understanding that it would be repaid from his wife's fortune. The day before the wedding was fixed the defendant married Crawford, and alleged that Noble wanted her money, and not her, and the marriage was purely a commercial speculation on the part of the plaintiffs firm. Verdict for plaintiff, £20. There is a good story told about Mr Wakefield, M.H.E., and the Premier. The New Zealand Times astonished Wellingtonians last session by, publishing several fierce onslaughts upon the Government. It leaked out that the member for Geraldine was the writer, and the fun of the thing was thatihe used to concoct his literary productions in the Premier's room. Immediately aftet the appearance of one of the hottest attacks in the limes. Mr Hall found Mr W. very comfortably ensconsed in his room concocting an article for the next day's issue, whereupon the Premier, losing his usual complacency, said, " Come, this is rather too much of a good thing. Don't you think you had better do your writing somewhere else ?" Mr W. looked unabashed and injured; but he saw the' game was up and withdrew.— Auck-land Star. At Eochester, New York, on August'l2, a contest took place between the famous trotters, Maud and St. Julien. In the first heat St Julien made a mile in 2 mm 13|sec; Maud, 2min llfseo. In the second heat the time was—St Julien, 2min llfsec; Maud, 2min 2013603'; third heat—St Julien, 2min, 24£secs. In consequence of this remarkable time, the judges declared all stakes divided. Sarah Bernhardt is to receive two thousand pounds for appearing fifteen nighta at the Gaiety Theatre, London: The Marriage of Miss Btjedett Coutts.— Concerning the rumoured marriage of Mr Ashmead Bartlett and Lady Burdett Coutta, & correspondent says that the gentleman woneome prizes which her ladyship gave to him with; her own hand, and she took a fancy to the handsome Bchoolboy, who has now grown into her "first'love." Mr Bartlett is an able man and very handsome. He was in the lobby of the House of Commons last week, but not a soul ventured to offer him the usual congratulations. Perhaps the best explanation of the marriage .is that since Lady Burdett Coutts lost her old companion, Mrs Brown who washer governess when she was a girl, her chaperone when she went into society, and her close friend always, leaving her, when she died, £70,000 the Baroness has hardly been herself. She has had no friendly adviser in whom she could cbnfide. By way of correction we may state that Mr Ashmead Bartlett, the "intended" of the Baroness Burdefct Coutts was notieriSeeretary; he only distributed her contributions to the Turkish Compassionate Fund in: Turkey, whither he went for that purpose* Mrs Money, the young sister of the Baroness, is the person who will benefit to the greatest extent by the marriage. The interest in Coutt's Bank, the fine mansion in Stratton-street, and the beautiful rural retreat of Holly Lodge, at Highgate, will pass into this lady's hands bj her sister's marriage.— Home News.