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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 109, 7 May 1872, Page 3

2/6 REWARD. LOST, a POCKET BOOK, containing LETTERS and CARTE DE VISITES, of no use to anyone but the Owner. HENRY CROSS, 994 Chief Postoffice. DISTRICT ORDER. Militia and Volunteer Office, 2nd May, 1872. THE following Corps will Parade ior Monthly Inspection as specified opposite their names, viz : — City Bifles— At Drill Shed, at 7 p.m., To-day, the 7th instant. City Cadets — At Drill Shed, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, the 7th instant. Waimea Rifles— At Spring Grove, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, the 11th inst.; if wet, Saturday, the 18th Wakefield Cadets— At Spring Grove, at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 11th inst.; if wet, Saturday the 18th inst. Motueka Cadets— Cricket Ground, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 25th inst. By order, C. A. HUMFREY, Captain 964 and Adjutant Nelson District. NELSON CITY RIFLES. A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held in the DRILL SHED, after the Government Monthly Inspection Parade, on TO-DAY (TUESDAY) May 7th. W. McCABE, 663 Lieutenant in Charge. Superintendent's Office, Nelson, April 29, 1872. GENERAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY. mHE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publiX cation of the following PROCLAMATION, declaring THURSDAY, the 9th of MAT NEXT, a PUBLIC HOLIDAY throughout the Colony. ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary. (l s.) G. F. Bowen, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to restore to health His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from dangerous sickness, and it is fitting that Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects in the Colony of New Zealand should manifest their sympathy with Her Majesty and the Royal Family, and should unite with the rest of Her Majesty's subjects in testifying their thankfulness to the Almighty for His merciful interposition in sparing the life of His Royal Highness : Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand in exercise of all and every the powers vested in me in this behalf, do. by this my Proclamation, appoint THURSDAY, the NINTH day of MAY next.as a GENERAL HOLIDAY and DAY for a PUBLIC THANKSGIVING; and do hereby invite the Clergy and Ministers of Eeligion of all Denominations, and all other Her Majesty's subjects in New Zealand, to observe Thursday aforesaid as a Day of Special Thanksgiving to Almighty God accordingly. Given under the hand of his Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order ot Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventytwo. W. GISBOENE. 935 God save the Queen ! TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF NELSON. Gentlemen — I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the seat in the General Assembly, vacated by your late representative, Mr. Lightband. lam encouraged to do this by the support which I met at the late general election ; although proposed to you by my friends at the eleventh hour, without any previous concert with myself, and during my absence on another contest. It is impossible not to see that the Colony is now in great political and financial danger, and that unless a stop is soon put to the large excess of expenditure over income not only the public credit must break down, but a taxation of persons and properties must follow, so hdh/vy as to be ruinous to whole classes, and which will tend to depopulate the country and to drive away capital, in spite of the immigration that is being attempted. If elected I should then chiefly work in helping, Ist., To restore economy to the public service, and a proper balance to the finances; 2nd., To give greater independence to Parliament by a proper Disqualification Act; 3rd., To introduce prudence and calculation into the public enterprises by protecting them against scrambling and haste in their adoption, and waste and jobbery in carrying out; 4th., To recover control for the Legislature and the opportunity of criticism for the public over the plans for immigration, — placing them under such management and such restrictions as may guard the present colonists as well as the new-comers from the hardships that attend and follow ill-advißed wholesale importations of people. I should exert myself, also, to secure your present liberal system of public education against the dangers that now threaten it, and to extend its benefits to the rest of the colony; and I should be a hearty supporter of all legislation tending to social improvements. I have the honor to be, j Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. C. RICHMOND. College Hill, Nelson April 18th, 1872. ; 836