Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 224, 19 September 1872, Page 2

Wesleyan Missions.t-A meeting in connection with these missions will be held at the Wesleyan Church, Hardy-street, tomorrow evening, at half-past seven. A Nelson Telegram to the Westporl Times, dated September 16, says that Mr. Luckie is a candidate for the Superintendency. Oddfellows* Hall. — Mr. Maclaren's entertainment took place last night, and so far as we are able to learn, passed off successfully. There is to be another performance to-night. San Fbancisco Mail. — We are authorised to Btate that in the event of the Phoebe arriving by to-night's tide, which willserve about 11 o'clock, the Powtoffice will be open for the delivery of letters. Mr. Solomon, the wellknown occulist and optician, arrived this morning by the Charles Edward from the West Coast, en route for Wellington, where he intends making a short professional stay, after which he will return, to Nelson about the middle of next month.. Mr. Solomon has been for some time practising in the West Coaßt town?, and several favorable notices of his operations have appeared in the papers. 4- The City Hotel, in Gladstone-streetj Westport," was sold, for £80 by auction on Wednesday last, at purchaser's risk of removal; 1 ' 'The building at present stands cresting on piles a foot or two only in the shingle, the surf having washed away the solid ground underneath. ,'* At Greymouth on the 1 lth instant Captain' _?klm , er^^o7;;the.Vs.'s. jVlurrajr^ ,waei charged with a breach i of the Customs regulations by landing < certain cases of spirits on the whart. without permission ; from an officer o7 ; cus^ms. ; Through an informality in the informatibn the case was : jWithdrawriVijand a fr^^ ■Wbeheafd ;^ W ' : Greymoiifch.t^: , i^-jX^^^M^^-fIK

Under the heading of " West Coast Traitors," the lrianga7iua Herald couiains, iaarprominfint place, the following adveiv tieetnentj-r-"; A public mpetiue will be held this evehing, ; at the Oddfellows' Hall, for , the purpose of giving a public expression of opinion on the conduct of Messrs. E. J. O'Conor and John White, who, by their votes on Thursday last, defeated the Ministry, and have prevented separation from Nelson. Mr. Waterhouse and the New Ministry. — Numberless rumours having got abroad with reference to the Hon. Mr. Waterhouse's reasons for not joining Mr. Stafford's Ministry, it may be as well that that gentleman should he allowed to speak for himself. The following is from the last number of Hansard: — "The Hon. Mr. Waterhouse — I desire to make one or two remarks that probably may be expected from me with reference to the formation of the new Ministry. As hon. members are well aware, my name has been somewhat prominently connected with that movement. I may state that it has been so to a greater extent than I was aware of, or lhan I had given any reason for. As some misapprehension exists upon that subject, it is due to myself that I should exactly state what has transpired. Some time ago— l think the day succeeding that on which I brought uDder the attention o£ the Council a somewhat important notice as regards the limiting and defining of various ministerial offices — I was spoken to by my hon . friend Mr. Stafford, who stated that he had listened to the remarks made upon that occasion with some degree of interest, that he thoroughly coincided with them, and that he was anxious to ascertain whether, in case any ministerial change should occur, I would act with him. I said then, as I have stated before, that I had an almost insuperable objection to taking office, but, at the same time, I said I would not say that under any. circumstances whatever I would refuse to accept office, for I recognised that no public man should altogether evade the reponsibilities of his position; but that if ever I did accept office it would be with one single idea — with a view to providing for a more efficient administration of the affairs of the Government than in my opinion existed at the present time, and, further than that, with a view of providing for the introduction of an efficient Civil Service Act, remedying certain abuses which I considered to exist. Having ascertained from me that there were circumstances under which I might be prepared to accept office, my hon. friend rather rashly jumped at the conclusion that if those conditions were realised, my services might be secured, and he led his friends to entertain the supposition that in case of a change of Ministry, probably I should not refuse to take the lead of this Council. When Mr. Stafford was sent for with a view to the formation of a Ministry, he at once puthimself in communication with me. He admitted that I had never pledged himself to him, but he had attached a good deal of importance to the expression of my sentiments, and he expressed a hope that I would consent to act . with him, at the same time stating bis readiness to give effect, as far as he could, to the views I bad expressed. I candidly state this was a very tempting bait, and I felt a great degree of responsibility attaching to me in refusings to join my honorable friend under those circumstances, seeing that it did open up to me a career of usefulness that, if I was prepared to enter upon it, might be attended with benefit to the colony at large. But, Sir, after maturely considering everything, with great pain, and, I confess, not altogether without some degree of selfreproach, I did arrive at the conclusion not to join the Ministry. It is right to add that between Mr. Stafford and myself, there is, so far as I am aware, no difference of opinion whatever. I am glad to hear that his attempt to form a Ministry has been successful, and I cannot but think that it would have been a severe blow to the cause of good government in the Colony had he failed to do so, - j ■ MSt