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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 99, 30 April 1867, Page 2

We would remind our readers that the third annual meeting of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society takes place to-morrow afternoon at the Bank Hotel, at 3 o'clock, when, we believe, an important communication from the Geueral Government, relative to the proposed grant of a site for a nursery for the Society, will be read to the meeting. In reference to this subject we may mentiou that an effort is now on foot with a view to establish a similar Socie'y in Wellington, which, it seems, cannot boast neither of an Agricultural nor Acclimatisation Society at the present moment. The Advertiser has the following pertinent remarks in connection with this project : — It may be that the need for such a society does not appear to be urgent, and that our wealthy friends think that there are other investments in which their money would be better placed ; but we would point out that the city of Wellington owes a long debt to the country which it might help to pay off by an institution of the kind we are advocating. It is essentially in the interests of the agricultural portion of the population that we pen these remarks. There is so material a relation between their prosperity and that of the merchants of the city that their advantages should, wherever it is possible, be mutual. They seud the merchants doAvn the product of their lands for exportation or consumption, and in return are the priucipal consumers of the commodities imported by the merchants. The absence of such institutions as Agricultural and Acclimatisation Societies shows a very great neglect of these interests on the part of those whom they help so much to support.

Our readers will perceive from advertisements which appear in another column, that the supporters of both the rival candidates for the representation of the city have convened meetings of the electors ; that announced for this evening, at Mr. Clements' premises, in Trafalgar-street being restricted to the electors favorable to the return of Mr. Pitt, and that adver. tised for to-morow, which is called by Dr m Irvine's friends, at which the presence of the electors at large is invited, being held at the Temperance Hall.

A correspondent writes to us with reference to the weekly practice of the Fire Brigade, or rather, with reference to the locale chosen for its operations. He suggests, and with considerable show of reason and good sense, that in future the water supplied upon these occasions, should be drawn from the Eel Pond, or the Maitai, instead of scattering broadcast over the streets the filth and refuse which find their way into the sewers in Trafalgar aud Hardy-streets. The various appliances which the persevering energy of the Fire Brigade has placed at their disposal, have now been exhibited several times to the public, so as to make them sufficiently familiar with their use, should any fire break out in the" city, and our correspondent is decidedly of opinion that it would conduce to the public health, if the purer water from the river or the Eel Pond, were employed for the practice of the firemen, instead of water which must surely be impregnated with noisome miasmata that may he highly prejudicial to

the community in a sanitary point of view. We can ourselves testify to the fact that, on Friday evening last, the odours which prevailed — very perceptibly too — in the immediate neighborhood in which the brigade were carrying on their operations, were certainly not "wafted from Araby the blest." Our correspondent pays a high compliment to the praiseworthy exertions of the Fire Brigade, which we cordially endorse, and trusts that his suggestion will be received in the friendly spirit in which it is intended.