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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8254, 22 May 1895, Page 2

The NEr.soN Butxdiko Eociety. — The an- j noal mcc ing of the members of this Society will be held to-night. City Rifles' Social and Dangx. — From an advertisement in tbia issue it will be seen that a capital programme baa been prepared for the eociol to be held in the Provincial Hall on Friday evening. In addition to the vocal and instrumental muaio, the at raouons will be numerous. At the Winter Evening Debating Society 'a meeting last night there was af a r attendance The Bishop cf Nelson presided. Mr F. B. Atkioson opened the debate by affirming tbat a polioy of brtaki.g up the bifir ; estates is detrimental to the beat intareiis of New Zealand, and he was supported by Messrs Ga'wey, Hudson, Kingslty, and the Chairman. Mr fyree opposed the proposiiion and with him were Messrß 0. Y. FeL', W. T. Bond, Btaoe, and Yorke. On ;the question being pu> the Noes were in the majority. The subject for the nest debate on Jane 4th 13 — That co-operation is the 1/ s; Bolu'ion of the evils ariairg from the antagonism bttween iab jr and oapi a':. Stoke Bulbs. — In view of Co'onel Fox's ■ viait to Nelson, Drill-Instructor Hea ey wili J put the corpa through a coarse of musketry, and company movements at Rkhmocd this evening. Social.— The All Skiats Church choir intend holdiDg a social on the evening ot Taeßday, June 4th. The Rkeftoh School. — An exchange states that it understands that Mr Dowling, who was formerly assistant teacher at the Reefton School, has now been appointed master. The recommendation has to be confirmed by the Education Board. Mb William Fisdlay. ro3tmas'er, has been gazetted as Registrar of marriages, of births, a'-d of deaths, and tj be Vaccination Inspector for the district of Takaka. Photogbaphy. — The attention of amateur photographer?, and all interested ia photographic matters is called to an advertisement in another column, requesting their attendance at the Camera Club'a Room, H*rdyBtreet for the purpose of inspecting a collection of Photographs and Enlargements by the Carbon piooesi, the work of iilliot and Son, Barnet, Herts., manufacturers of Barnai and Roofcet dry plates and bromide paper, for the sale of whioh Mr Boon has been appointed looal ageat. The pictures shown are part of a large collection which was lately exhibited in Wellington and attraoted much attention and admiration from amateur photographers there. Football.— A matoh will be played in the Park on Friday afternoon between the Nelson II and Pirates (Junior Championship), instead of on Saturday, as previoasly fixed. The following are the names of the players : —Nelson II : Messrs Bird, Brown, Milner (2), Jackson, Johnston (2), Levfßtam, Walker, Riley, Washbourn, Tomlinson, Glasgow, and Bhea ; emergencies, Taylor, Neale. Pirates : Messrs Spencer (2), Levien, Nesbht, Brown, Liley, Hall, May, Graham, Barnett, Ruffell, Eitohing, Smith, Arnold, Atkinson ; emergencies, Lawrence, Robertson, Sherwood. Making Knows Heb Attractions. —Mr Tyree, of Trafalgar Btreet has shown us the first frame of photographs set up under his scheme for making known the attractions of Nelson. In the centre of the fnme are twelve large photographs, admirably exeouted, including » view of Nelson, and others on the road between Nelson and Blenheim, and between Kelson and the West Coast. Toes* photographs are mounted on Turkey red, and around them are tb.iriy-.six smtlier photographs of Nelson business placeß wth the names of their owners, who, it may be explained, ara contributing to tha coat cf preparing a number of these frames for exhibition iv the various towns of New Zealand and Australia. We ire quite confident that thfse protographs will oommand moch attention. Rbchion or Old Boyb. — Arrangements have been made for a gathering, whioh oaanot fail to prove a very interesting one, to take plaoe in the Foresters' Hall thig tveniDg. The objeot in view is of a double natar6 — to secure a reunion of the old boys who attended St. Mary's Sohool in the days when Mr Richards was its headmaster, and also to do honor to that gentleman, who is at pretent on a visit to Nelson. We are desired to state that the Foiesteis' social will not take plaoe to-Dight. I St. Johm Ambolancb Association.— We remind our readers of the meeting to be held this evening in connection with the above association, when it ia desired to form classes for the winter months. Mb Thomas Weabne, genior, has gone to Wakamarina (states tue ' Guardian') to obtain two tons of stone from Wilkie's reef, and to report generally on the same, to a oompany at We.luigt.n.

Tee Uir'on Steam Ship Go. has chattered the fine steamer Mount Sirion, 5000 tona, for the Calcutta-New Zeiland trade. The Mount Sirion is a new steamer, having been lauDohed since the beginning of this year, and ia now on her maiden voyage to Ca - catta. She ia owned by Smith and Servio*, of Glasgow, owners of the tteamers Mount Lebanon, Moant Oarmel, Moant Hebron and others. The Moant S ; "on leaves Calcutta for Wellington via way ports on the 20th July with a cargo of Indian produce, and teutons to oalontta with borses, &c., ia September, probably maUcg Welling on her final port of depatura from the Colony. She leaves again for New Zealand in November. Th* growing of rap > for sheep fattening ia strongly reoommended in tbe * Anstralasian' and this orop besides, enricbea the bo 5 to which it is grown. South Austbalia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, eaoh showed a decrease in the quantity of wool exported for the year endiog SOth March, 1895, aa against the previous year. New Zealand's inorease was 8,129 bales. The ' Oamarn Mail ' states that Mr Seymour, after a fortnight's inspection of Balruddery, says that a very large area cf the estate is auriferous, and that two or three hundred men could make a living there were ie not (hat the water ia scarce. la the gulliea, however, a limited number of men could always earn a few Bhilliags a day by cradling. Mr Seymour considers that, if water were on the spot, the field would ba far preferable to that at Living tone. But it ia the reported discovery of a rich reef by Mr Fuller that ezoites interest in Balruddery. It ia stated by bim that the reef ia 3ft in dep b, and that a quantity cf ttona that was crushed by Mr Qarainsr at Tapui yielded at the rate of 21oz to tha ton. The reef ia, if all be true we hear, no casual and broken outcrop, fcr it was traced for a chain and a ha'f by prodding a crowbar into tbe soil, and at places where it oropped out Blightly Mr Fu ler broke off the exposed qu»r>z aad covered up the plaoss wi.h soil. A melancholy story reaches as fiom the hoepi.al. One of the pa'ienta, a man of a most smid and Bober disposition, one day asked tha matron if she, drank. Mis 3 Craig was placed in a dibit ma. To be truthful she knew she must reply in the affirmative, for who is there human that oan live without drinking. At the taaxe time she did not want to pretend ta misunderEt&nd the mesaing cf her quea ioner'g words, which evidently referred to alcoholism. Ab length, after much inward wrestling, she replied that she did cot drink. " Then I want to know," be demanded, • what them hospital committee means by Beading a prohibitioner (probationer) nurse here- I look on it aa a hin3oll tD tha staff." It id related that this periect'y natural remark bo convulsed the oaoupaat of the next bed tbat he had a fit from whioh he has not yet recovered. — Weit Coaat • Times. 1 A well-known American lawyer waß defending a young fellow for larceny, the evidence against whom was only circumstantial, lie urged that circumstantial evidence ought never to conviot a man. " Why," said the counsel, " when I was a boy I remember a playmate of mine who, while bis parents wera absent, went to the pantry and nearly devoured a big custard pie before he thought of the paterml strap. When he did he looked around for some means of hiding the traces of his guilt. He saw the family cat in the oorner, aad taking pmß by the neck he carefully smeared her paws with the custard, took tie guil'y cat out into the back yard and shot her. As the shot gun rang ont the boy observed to me with a chuckle, ' There gce3 one more victim of circumstantial evidence.' " The jury dißagresd. A totjng man with a sealskin oip and a frosty moustache stepped briskly into a wholesale boot and sboa shop, in answer to an advertisement for a bookkeeper. " How old are you?" asked the senior partner of the firm. " Had much experience in double entry accounts ?" "About five years in a wholesale hai and cap house." " Married man ?" " Wife and ohilrf ; both dead." " Eocnomiodl habits?" "Yes, sir." "No inclination to absorb all tae profits of the concern and only deolare a beggarly dividend to the proprietor* ?" " Not in the least.' 1 "Do you drink ?" " Tuank you ; it's quit-* seldom ; but when I do it is usually about this time of day," and the applicant reaohed for his cap. " All right, that settles it. I have made it a rule in this establishment to do all tbe drinking myself. Qood day, sir." Mebbbs C. Mitchell & Co., of London, the proprietora of ' The Newspaper -Press Direc~ tory (which useful publication, by the way, has juat attained its 50ih year of iSBUe), have issued two handsome newspaper maps, one of South Africa and tbe other of Australasia. The towna where newspapers are published in tbe various colonies are clearly indicated, beaide3 the principal geographical features. They are commercial maps par excellence, and should be of great servioe tj exporters, merchants, and colonial advertiser*. Tbe price ia one Bhiliing each, or, mounted on canvae and rollers, five ehi linga. The ' Sydney Morning Herald ' says : — For 17 days the four-masted barque City of Adelaide, whioh left Lyttelton on April 13 :h, was driving in a fearful storm off the New Zealand coast. She arrived in Sydney on Saturday, May 4th, and reports that tbe hard southerly weather experienced en this ooaßt about Easter time raged with hurricane fury off New Zealand. The cyoloce in its oourse across the Tasman Sea increased in its violence, for when the barque was off tbe eastern entrance to Cook Strait, bound to Sydney from Lytte ton, she was blown away, and after repeated attempt 3to run through held en a northerly course, going north by way of the Three Kings. Towering seas broke over the ship, and filled her deokb. Not a reft ge of canvas could lo~k at tha wind, to fierce were the squall?, and sail aftar sail went as soon aB it was set. It is stated that so critiosl the situation becama that the passengers and others weie snpplied with life belts, and boats were got ready to take to, the vessel driving dangerously close on shore. After the weather moderated tbe City of Adelaide eh -wed her fine sail ig quali'ies by running across from the New Zealand oca^t to Sydney in f -ur day;, Mb Fbsybs£g, tbe timber expert, says that New Zealand wojd ia increasing in populating in the London market, and there is a spltndia demand for it if ie oan be placed on tbe market at £6 a load. It is, however, useless to send it for paving purposes at a higher pric?, as it would then compete with j*rrah, which has obtained ap. o J footing, and holds the market at £6 12s 6d. He adds : — " To show you what might ba done, let me tell you that one short street in the London suburbs is being laid with jarrah paving, Thia witl take 6000 loads at £6 129 6d, bo the wood alor.e will cost £39,756. If that Btreet could have been laid instead with New Zealand wood it wonld hive meant a clear profit of £6000 to the New Zealand sawmillers. And that is not all that has to be eaid. I inspected these jarrah blocks, and found them phort length by a sixteenth of an inch, doe to waste by the cut of the saw, which was not allowed for, though the blocks should have be»n 6in long each. Now this means a loss to ths paving authorities of a year's wear in the wooJ, and of timber to the aggregate va'ue of £419 17s 6d. If, however, New Zealand adopts my proposed Btandar J of dimensions, including a legth of 6ft 4£in, we oan out fifteen sin blocks ont of t>aoh length, allowing l§in for tbe 15 Baw eats. If the timber is BuppHed in New Zealand at 103 per 100 ft, and the expense of freight 5s 6d, landing la, and sole expenses 6d be added, making 17s 3 1 per 100 ft in all, that would {give 2s 9d per 100 ft prefit to the sawrailler in New Zealand, selling it at £1 per 100, equal to £6 per load." OuBTAiNiiT the best medieuuj known ii Sander uid Sana Eueadypti Extract. Teat its eminently powerful aSeai in ooughs colds, influenza — the relief is instantaneous In sariouß oases, ana &aoidents o! all kinds b« they wounda, barn*, saoldingt, bruises sprains, it id the safest remedy — 20 swelling on iadanuaation. Like surprising efforts produced in oroup, diphtheria, bronchitis nflammation of ibe longs, swellings, etc., diarrhoea, dy6?a'-ry disease of f ii3 kidneys and urinary organs In ose at Los^italß and medical clinics all over the gloU ! patroniced by his Majesty the j£ing of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at lasemauonel Exhibition, AinaLor-lara. Truii In sbi* &p proved article and>ejeoi ail othera. Notwithstanding all the twaidle published about Teas, at least as good value can be obtained a; Caledonia Houae as from any ethers firm in New Zealand. All who are cot aware of the fact are invited to try.

* Tub ever varying changes of fashion and the lats developments in Aational and Drags reform, necessitate constant study and witch fulness on the p rt of these whose daty and privilege is is to successfully oater for this important branch of femiaina requirements The lady in charge of this Bpeoial department at the " Economic," possesses qualifications considerably above the every-day matter of fact order of things, and can ba depended upon to produce the most satisfactory eff<.o*a at a minimum cost. Ladies requiring winter Costumes should pa» themselves into oommanioitioa with her. Blankets — Bugjieh and Colonial, good qaalt : c?, from 6s 6d a p-ir. Bash Bags. 4j 6d each.— Abmstbonq & Co., Tralalgar street. Just opened, a fresh stock of Scotch anl Colonial Dr as Tweeds, no two dreases alike, in Fawn, Brown, and Grey mixtures. — Abmstbonq and Co , Tra'a'gar street. New Clothing. — Jast opened, a nice assortment, comprising Waterproof Coats, Soits, Coa s, Trousers, &o, direct from the mannfactarere.—Absistbonq & Co.. Trafalgar st. Wh have a grand lice of Ladies' Mackintoshes, with three caoee, for 25s ; these are honestly wotth 355. Also a nice atcck of Ladies' Jaokots in Black and Brown.—Abmstbong & Co., Trafalgar street. SJN92&IB ofSSVv ADVEBT;Bi.MHN ?H— Hum following new advertisements appear in this iesae : — Railway timetable for Qneen's B rtbday Invitation to inspect photographs Biwaka Boad Board eleation Mtuks Boad Boird election deaond term of Bißhop School St. Mary's School— Reunion oi old bojs Funeral of late Mrs Jane Hurley House th«t the Banks will dose on FritUy Notice by T. H. Shone Partnership dissolved— Clear and L 3 vie a Programme of City Sifl.s' eonort Land for sale of to let-F. Trask Social by Ail Saints 1 Church Choir Kb. u barb roots for sale— Jas. Goodman Wanted, pick and shovel men Boy wanted Yoong man wanted