THE COLONIST. Published Daily—Mornings. Nelson, Friday, August 16, 1895.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8328, 16 August 1895, Page 2

THE COLONIST. Published Daily — Mornings. Nelson, Friday, August 16, 1895.

FooTBALti. — We unders'and that a majority of the Committee ol Management of the Rugby Unioa has decided that the protest enteieti by the Unioa Club against the College 11, who played Wix in their team, he j being still considered a member of the former j club, and not having been transferred to the latter team, must be sustained, and the match •.n consequence, which wag won by the College, must ke forfeited to their opponents. A few weeks back Wix became a student at the College, apd according to the rule of the school a pupil on joining the College at once becomeß separated from other club connec- 1 ticns, and throws in his lot with his new associates on all ma ters. With this prinoipal in view Wix waa played by the College team agaicst the Rival Ciub. The latter club won, and subsequently the College Ciub appealed to the Union for the transfer of Wix on the grounds stated above. The Committee, however, decided that as Wix had played on several occasions with the Union Ciub, whioh he first joined, they could not agree to a transfer, deeming that as the Unions bad but two matches- to play he must continue with them until they were finished. Thia decision waa subject to a proviso that the Unions were prepared to play Wix, if not he was to ba allowed to play with the Coliege. Tbe Unions played Wix against the Rival Club on Saturday week, with the Committee's permission, and won tbe match, and selected him to play against tha College on Wednesday. He, however, played for the latter, which occasioned much surprise in face of tbe Committee's decision, which the College delega'e was aware of. Kence the pro;e3t.— Mr E. S. Cresswell has been appoited to referee in the match to-morrow, Pirates v. College. Magistrates Court. -The bitting of the Magistrates Caurt will be held et the Police Station this morning owing to the Court Eoom having been used as a supper-roem Ihso night. A namber of oasea are eet down for hearing, several owners of unregistered doga being prtceeded against, and there is a charge of using obsene language to be preferred agaio6t a Port resident. Accidentally Shot.— The police have a3" certained that the bullet whioh struck Mr Harford was fired from an air-gun, and the person who fired the shot ia also known to them. Proceedings will be taken against this person, as the u;e of such a weapon witbin tbe town boundary is illegal. t-vB*MIHISOENOES OF THE MAOEI WA.B. — Such i's~the interesting subjeot nf a lecture to be delivered at St. John's We3leyan Charon this evening by the Eev J. WarJ, of Wellington. The obair will ba taken by Colonel Pitt at half-pact seven, and ther^ should be a very largo attendance. No charge will be made for admission, but there will be a collection.

Inbtjbanob Bate*. —We now learn that th' tnfocmation whioh reached us re'ative to what transrired at a meetiop nf the loo.'l .epresentitives of Insurance Offices wap, in p pirt, ir correct. It is true that no resolution p was Brrived at in the oireotion of lowering j' tbe present heavy rates of t >riff, but ftr> r( jnderatsndin^ wag oorne to that aft->r tha w iVlplbourDß meeting the rates charged in 8 Nelson ehsll be revieed ad reductions tl made. w Choir Concert.—The memb.-ra of the AH 1 Saints Chutch choir intend giving a popular V concert on Monday evening next in the c schoolroom ftdjacent to ?he th !rcb. A d capit'l programme will bo presented, and F tbe charge -of admission (sixpence) sbouLi a ensure a l ur.?e altei danoe. Tbe ptoc;ed« d ire to go to the cost of tuning the Church a organ. P Aqbicdlttjeal Show.—A.B the OomruHtee ° will meet to-morrow evening to arrange the schedule for f o prizes to be ofli-red at the ■■ forthcoming Show, thoße who iotend to offer ' ?peci»l prizes are respeotful y rqnested to 6 notify their infcnti'n to Mr John Glen, th° - Secretary, at once. Balk op Ftjhnitore, etc.—Mr Lock wrl sell by public auction, to-day at 1.30, the whole cf the furniture and effects belongina to Mr G; B. Vanse* The sale wi'l be held * without reFerve, and takes plaoa on the premiFe?, Hardly street. ) At the Loysl Marine Lodge last n^gbf, a , very pleasant evening was Epent. The Ju^e- , nile Templars paid a fraternal visit and sup- ( plied the itema for the programme, aoquiting -, themselves admirably. Kefceshmenta were provided during the evening, and, thera being , a surplns of good thing?, it was reolved to ] send same to the Old People's Home. Auction Bale of Delicacies.—Mesfr Sharp and Sons notify that thty will cc!! by auction at tbe Court House this mo:nirjg commencing at eleven o'clock, alt the provisons for the Hospital Ball which «ere io excess of requirements Tbua there will came under the hammer poultry, hams, je.lie-, fruit, and delicacies of various kinds. Salb of Bananas.— At 10.30 this morning Messrs Bisley Bros & Co will sell, at their rooms, Hardy street, 22 orates of bananas, direct from Fiji. Auction Sale.—Messrs Bisley Bros & Co will conduct an auction sale of household furniture and effects belonging to Mrs Spenoer of Trafalgar street North, to-day, commercing at 1 30 p.m. Mb J. W. Kelivj is introducing a Bill to provide a half-holiday for d rnesiic servants. TnE chairman of the Tariff Coojsnitse s%ys that tte two match faoto.-ies in New Zealand ara paying £4000 odd a-year ia wages. The Lyttelton 'Times' 'strongly protests egainst women being B6Dtto barbarous countries which are not yet ripe for their mioiitrations, while there sre wkJe fie'de awaiting the"r Jabouis bere. Tbe woman who wants to devote her life to tie work of the Church need rot go to China, there are plenty of heathen passing every dsy under tbe shadow of the Bishop's own cathedsnl whose ignorance and deetitutiun are quite as piteous as the errors and Eupersiitiona cf the unfortunate people of the East. A number of the newspapers in this Colony disagree with the verdict given in the Maeterton murder oaee, The ' Marlbor«>ngh Timeß ' goes so far a3 to say, " it iB the jurymen and not the accused wi o should be Rent to a lunatic asylum^ for they have registered a verdict which is far from beirg in t-oeord-anoe with the dictates of common sense." Bereavement. —The friends of Mr T. B. Fisher, who reßi3ed many years in Kel-on, will be sorry to see by our teegrams this morning, tbat that gentleman ha 9 lost a daughter owing to an accident. Mr Fishec is at present attending the Underwriters' Confererjc^ at Me'bourne. The dteea3ed young lady was born in Nelson, fcer grandfather beiug the late Mr Hadfieid, chemist. The ' Dunatan Times' reports that at a meeting of cc tiers hf-ld at Opbir it was reFolved —" Tnat in conseqaente of thu h.-ftvy snowfall that has been exporienaed ia fhis district, it is necessary to ask iha (iovjrnment to remit one year's rent »o tbe tenants." The followiug is a copy of Sir John Hal.'s letter with his gift of the great portrait of her Majt-sty : - " I have the honor to request that you v.ill submit io Parliament my respectful application that it will be p'eased to accept from me a portrait of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, as a slight token of regard for the Legislature of which, for ntarly forty years, it was an honor and a pleasure for me to be ameniVer.' 1 A ver\* pretty nugget, weighing 29ozs, was sold at Donolly, Victoria, by a young man, who got it in some old workings at yarraA correspondent of the ' Taieri Advocate states that two miners named L Pearsall and W. M'Mil'an bad a narrow escape from death by poison at Post Office C.-eek. A lad conveying meat to them placed it in a phosphorous bag. After pa; taking of the meat the men were seized with violent pain-. They mads their way to Mr T. George's, at Berwick, where remedies were administer id. The ' Grey River Argus ' of August lOth states :—The Biaie of eociety in the neighborhood of the home of " The Last Ten Tribes " is roputedly not of the mo-<t refined description. But it has not yet reached the stage of grilling publicans alive in their own fireplaces. Bat a Press As^ociition telegram reports tbat is what was done to May in hig own accommodation house. 'Ihe item is sensational enough for acything; Vut it does not happen to bo true. From what c n be gathered from sources where the real trut'i ought to be known, there was no grilling of May nor anybody els». Mr Boscawkn, in his repori on the LiHs Barrier, Bays tha ls'and seems to be the nineteenth century paradise for aU New Zealand flora and fauna, and likely to continue so if left undislurbed by mau. The death is announced in England of Dr Sbairach E. K. Jones, late of Tapanui, ooncerniDg whose career the Tapanui ' Courier' remarka that, if published in extenso, it would read iike a fairy talo. It w*s by his enterprise, when proprietor of the Provincial Hotel, that Otago received its visit from an All-England team of cricketers.