The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 6 February 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1873.

Harmonic Society. — The concert in aid of tbe piano fund, which bas for some time past bean in course of preparation, ■will be given at the Provincial Hall this evening. The programme will be found elsewhere. Tickets may be obtained at the door. Murray's Cibcus. — There was a good attendance at the circus again last night, on which occasion the troupe performed for the last time in town prior to proceeding to tbe country districts where performances will be given as per advertisement. We would recommend all our country readers to pay Mr Murray a visit and can assure them that they will not regret it. Waimea West. — On Tuesday last the scholars attending St Michael's Sunday School, Waimea West, and other children, to the number of nearly 70 in all, responded to the kind invitation of Mrs Morse who had asked them to meet her at Enston prior to her departure for Wanganui, whither she is about proceeding with her family to join Mr Morse who, after a residence of 22 years in Waimea West, has taken a farm in that portion of the colony with a view to settling there. The afternoon was devoted to games of every description, and at 5 o'clock the children sat- down to tea on the lawn. After ample justice had been done to all the good things provided, the Rev. C. 0. Mules, accompanied by Mr H. Challis, the churchwarden of St Michael's, rose and said that a pleasiDg, and at the same time, a painful duty had devolved upon him. Painful, because he f could not shut his eyes to the fact that the occasion of their gathering that evening was to bid farewell to one who for so many years bad been a kind neighbor, and a sympathising friend, & sharer in all the joys and sorrows of their little community, the members of which in her absence would deeply feel the loss of one who had endeared herself to each and all of them. But the duty he had undertaken was also a pleasing one since he had been asked to offer to her an assurance that all her kindness had not been thrown away upon those on whom it was bestowed, but that when she was far away from them they would often think of her with feelings of gratitude and affection. This much he might say for the community generally in the district in which she had lived, but in the name of the parishioners of St Michael's, at which church she had done good service in presiding at the harmonium and superintending the choir, he now asked her to accept a more substantial token of their kindly feeling towards her. Mr Mules then presented Mrs Morse in the name of the congregation of St Michaul's Church with a handsome Prayer Book, bound up with which was a copy of " Hymns, Ancient aDd Modern " ; a quarto volume of the Oxford edition of Mercer's Psalter and Hymns ; and three books containing sacred music. Three cheers were then called for, and most heartily given for Mrs Morse by the assembled children, whose recollections of her who was their hostess on the occasion will ever be of the most kindly t nature. Mrs Morse, who was completely taken by surprise by this proof of the esteem iv which she was held by the residents in the district, begged Mr Mules to accept, and to convey to those who had joined iv presenting her with a gift she should so highly prize, her sincere and hearty thanks for their kind thoughtfulness towards her. On the fly-leaf of each of the books was the following inscription :-—" Presented to Mrs Morse ou leaving a neighborhood, her home for many years, by the members of the' congregation of St Michael's Church, Waimea West, with the best wishes of many who esteem, and desire to be remembered by her. February 4, 1873."