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Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3481, 14 June 1882, Page 3

City Rifles' Entketaihment.—Wo learn that the rehearsal of the very amusing farce " A Turkish Bath," which took place at the Theatre last evening, was very successful, and the pif cc is expected to go remarkably well. Mr H. B. Htjddleston, C.E., announoea in another column that he has reoominonced business in Nelson as architect and licensed surveyor. Young Men's Christian Association.—A full meeting of the Committee of the above named Association was held last night, when it was resolved to execute at once extensive alterations and improvements in the reading room and the members' room. The Committee are arranging for a course of Jfieturos, particulars of which will be duly announced. I Saliß of Sheep, &c.—Messrs Sharp and | Pickering announce that their fortnightlj sale I of stock will take place at Richmond this I afternoon at half past two o'clock. I Laerikinism.—A short, time ago tho Cor I potation went to some expense in providing I teats in the Botanioal Gardens for the uee of I the publio, but wo learn that some of these I have been quite destroyed. If a policeman in 1 plain clothes were to visit the Gardens and I outlyiDg places occasionally it is possible that 1 Ices wanton misohief of this description would ] be perpetrated. 1 SrpBEME Court.—The circuit sittings of 1 the Supreme Court, which were announced to j take place on Friday, are not to be held, and I the jurors who were summoned to attend are | now notified that their presence is not rej quired. The reason given that the Court will | not sit is that (he only criminal case comI mitted was a charge of attempted suicide I against a man named Scoles, who, it appears, 1 las been confined at the Asylum ever since J his committal by W. Gibbs, Esq., 8.M., of j Collingwood, and that owing to his state of 3 nind a trial would be certainly useless. So c I far as this is concerned we have nothing to 1 1 say, but it is nevertheless unfair to Nelson I that the last two half yearly sittings of the »j Supreme Court have virtually been allowed fall through, for it will be remembered i'lthftt his Honor the Chief Justice on his last | lueit to Nelson departed hurriedly, and before } |he bad beard ail the matters which it was > Mended to have brought before him. Fori junately the amount of crime in Nelson is £ Jexceedingly small, and it is rarely that the Court has much criminal work he-e > ibut atill tbe people of Nelson have the light to have legal matters determined here without jtemg put to the additional expense of retaining counsel in Wellington. We are now only flowed two sittings of this Court annually, janci these at all events should be held in order jthat cases and motions might come before a JSupreme Court Judge when necessary. 1 Ciubge op Deukeenkess. —A man wns Ivetterday brought up at the Police Court and Ifined 5s on a charge of drunkenness. His ilitatcments make it appear that he was im- ' Iposed upon, and we believe the police have Men tbe matter in hand. 1 The outbreak of diptheria in St Albans, ICanterbury, is very serious. The borough lichool has been closed by the Board of JHtalth, who have ordered all Sunday schools isl'O to be discontinued, and the health officer lidvises residents for tho present to avoid 1 i:itmg one another as much as possible IJi one family three deaths occurred in two lavs. 1 The ' Advocate' gives the folio-wing ini'tanoe of the cuteness of the Maori race, as jwnplified a few days ago in Fielding. A «<dl known Native walked into a bank in that 5| in, and said to the manager, "If I give au £50, and then go away for a year, how a:ach you give me when I come back ?." JHe ji'i3 informed that he would receive £52 at 9-b end of the term mentioned. For a wj.merjt he appeared to be absorbed in deep fl-^ght, and then said with extreme naivete, al' you give me £50,1 go away for a year, jfri ffben I come back will give you £52," .I'm genial banker smiled a smile, but was il-ot on." J^e are indebted to the ' Tuapeka Times' Sjithe following information, which appears |I nave been overlooked by the Press Asso-«-ion:—"On Monday night two of the fl'il pickets came ashore from H.M.S. |gs*j|jancla, where they routined. ' On landing ji^J* the wharf they took off their belts and i<f \arips, and threw them at the feet of the '■* -win charge. Lieutenant Drake (their ,imander) stood by passively, and the ■■stance of the police was called in. A x and constable succeeded in captur- !"' Stamen, one of whom was very violent. i were locked up for the night, and next V. filing were sent on board the Miranda to .tied by court martial. The naval authori- ', 'consider the offence a very serious one. ' disturbance is understood to have arisen the transference of picket duty from marines to the blue jackets." • we take the following from the " Lyttelton t !v i! ~Mr G> F' Eitso >late engineer to ; c juaivern Waterworks, has sent a capital 1 ~ I. of a portion of the race. It is an ■eediDgjy correct representation of the '}' as anyone who has seen the original -'^cognise in a moment. The Malvern crrace, it may here be observed, is one ™o useful works of the kind carried out ne behvyn County Council, the other ;Ue »g the Hororata water race. The Aetn race derives its supply of water from werKowai- It comprises 12 miles of •.» «cc with 27 miles of wide branch races s Jl railes of narrow branches. Water is l"^ed .from the race to some 90,000 acres *% the supply being 18,000,000 gallons \ y- As the fall of the country varies , |r ,««ft to 70ft per mile, the velocity of the * tei t° be checked fey falls, placed at ;i t 7 alcpg the race. Some of these falls j .j? ac of concrete, others of timber, with I aprons to receive the water. Speci- ' *r whole of these different arrange- , i(i \ > together with the flumes, culverts, ''«J? es> and gauge pipes used in the race «Vh aourately represented in the model, ! IK/ 3 a piece of workmanship, also iSv^2_° redit u lsOn its constructor.