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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 301, 21 December 1868, Page 3

Up to the time of our going to press no telegram had beeu received stating at what time the Airedale would be despatched with the English Mail for Nelson. At all events she cannot now be expected here before to-moirow evening. A case of smallpox had occurred ou board the Kaikaura, and the Board of Health was sitting to decide what should he done in 'the- matter, the other steamers being detained. A representation of the wishes of the majority of the citizens as regards the day on which the usual holiday known as Boxiug-day (which this year falls on a •Saturday) shall be kept, having been made to his Honor the Superintendent, it has beeu determined that Saturday next shall be observed as a public holiday, and a 'notice to that effect will be issued. This arrangement will allow such of our "busy townspeople as may desire to a-vail themselves of the opportunity, a three days' holiday in the country. 'Our readers will see from the advertised arrangements for the trips which the Lady Barkly is announced to make next week, that she will leave Nelson on Saturday, returning from Motueka the sai_B evening, and will return from Motueka on Mouday evening, i;hus affording both Nelson and Motueka holiday seekers a very favorable opportunity of enjoying at a moderate cost the salutary recreation of a few days' change of scene. Complaints galore have reached us with reference to the frequent depredations •committed on the flowers planted by the hands of loving relatives and friends on the graves in our cemeteries, aud especially in that situated ou the Wakapuaka-road. The following remarks in a recent number of the Australasian are very apropos to such offenders: — I wonder who are the miserable 'animals who steal flowers from graves. I ■am not given to the support of penny sen-

timeut in any shape, and hold that when a man is dead the absence of flowers on his tomb can do him but little harm; but there is something pleasant inthe decking of the last resting-place of those whom we love, something indeed not altogether silly or chiidish in the hope that when we too are dead some friendly hand will pause for an instaut in its toiling, and place a chaplet of flowers upon the cold stones that mark the spot of earth where we lie, With all our loves put out And our lips full of earth. The most heartless among us cannot but feel some emotion when, in a walk through a mouumented cemetery, he suddenly 'comes upon a simple mound of earth, upon which the tender hand of wife, mistress, or friend has placed a' bunch of flowers.' St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral at Sydney, the building of which has extended over 40 years, has at length been completed, and was consecrated on St. Andrew's Day, the 30th ultimo, the ceremony being performed by the principal bishops of the metropolitan province, aud about 70 clergymen and 76 choristers takiugpart iv the proceedings. The Bishop of Sydney, in the sermon delivered by him ou the occasion, expressed some strong anti-ritualistic views.