The Aelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 22, 26 January 1870, Page 2

The Aelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1870.

We are obliged to Mr. White, purser of the Ahuriri, for Southern files. The Meeting This Evening. —We hear on all hands many, and of course conflicting, rumours with regard to the meeting summoned for this evening at the Provincial Hall. While some say the Superintendent's ideas must be upset and others equally warmly say they must be upheld, we say let all have a fair hearing aud let the decision arrived at, whatever it may be, be one that we shall not in the future look back upon with regret. Gold. —The following quantity of gold of the value of ahout £16,000, was shipped from the district of Golden Bay during the year 1869 : —

The Old Hulk.—Many of pur readers with ourselves will doubtless be sorry at hearing that our friend —our old friend of long standing — the hulk, near the wharf, is having its nose cut off, so that it may be made level with the Haveu Road. That such a disfigurement should take place is of course to be regretted, but then the fact that it stands greatly in the way of a much used road and has for years been nothiug but a hindrance to vehicles, must rise above all sentimental feeling and make even those who regarded the hulk as an old institution agree to a demand made hy the march of improvement. Yet even with this incontrovertible argument we must still regret that another of our landmarks is disappearing. Provincial Education.—We doubt not that most of our subscribers will have read with great interest the address of the Rev. Mr. Binney, on opening a grammar school at Bishop Stortford. At a time when iv England they are trying to obtain for children a public education untrammelled by religious dogmas, and whilst in Nelson we hear the alarm sounded by certain sections of the clergy in favor of upsetting that system of education which for years past has received on all hands warm approbation because of its unsectarian character, we do hope that the earnest words of an earnest thinker will be weighed: He says' " the law of the New Testament is ' that parents are to educate and bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.' The proper religious teaching of the young of a Christian family is a duty resting primarily and directly on Christian fathers and mothers."

Collingwood Waitapu. Ounces ounces. Quarter ending March 31 . 790 103 „ June 30 . 623 108 „ Sept. 30 . 950 265 „ Dec. 31 . 1146 259 3509 735