The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 201, 21 August 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1873.

English Mail.-— The Postmaster notifies that the next homeward mail via Suez will be despatched from Nelson on or about Wednesday next, the 27th instant. Nelson Gas Works.— The tender of Walton and Murray of Greymouth, for retort benches and chimney, for the sum of £228, has been accepted by tbe Government. Hardy-Street School. — At a meeting of the Local Committee held on Tuesday afternoon, Miss Hough was appointed assistant teacher to the second division of the Hardy-Street Girls' School. There were five applicants for the situation. The Trout. — We have been requested to caution persons agaiDst meddling with the trout in the Acclimatisation Society's ponds in the Government grounds. There is no objection to anyone visiting the grounds, but to drag the fish out of the water is going a little too far, and is an interference with the liberty of his subjectsj against which we are quite sure the Secretary will strongly protest, and very reasonably so. Ornamental Planting.— The prison labor has been recently employed in enclosing a vacant space near the Nile Street ford, which has been planted with ornamental shrubs and trees at the expense of the residents in the neighbourhood, who trust that all persons wiil refrain from injuring the plants intended for ornament and public advantage. Christianity and Civilisation among the Maoris. — The Rev. T. Buddie delivered a most interesting lecture on this subject at the Wesleyan Church last night, when we were sorry to Bee that no more than seventy or eighty were present. The choir rendered valuable assistance during the evening by singing several pieces in a highly creditable manner. The lecture was so interesting and so full of information respecting the Maoris, that we purpose publishing it in extenso in a Supplement on Saturday. Horticultural and Industrial Exhibition. — The Committee met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making arrangements for the coming exhibition. The names of Dr Boor and Mr Holloway were added to the General Committee, and the following sub-committees were formed: General Management, Dr Williams (president), Mr L. Broad (vice-president), Mr Pickering (secretary), and Messrs Holloway, Rout, and Boor ; Horticultural, Messrs Bartlett, Boor, Watkins, Holloway, and Barton j Industrial, Messrs Pickering, Rout, Tatton, and Thornton; Arts, Minerals, &c, Messrs Blundell, Broad, Watkins, and Tatton; Poultry, Messrs Broad, Burn, J. Smith, and Thornton. The thanks of the Committee were voted to Mr H. Drew for his special prize of an eight-day clock, and to Mr Bartlett for his handsome donation of £3 3s, to be devoted by the Committee to some special prize or prizes. It was resolved that each person paying 5s should be entitled to an additional ticket for any member of his family, and that each subscriber of 10s should be allowed to take the whole of his family. Bishop Suter In London. — The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes:— -I daresay most of you remember the Bishop of Nelson (Dr Suter) when he arrived first in the colony. He was a man who was sure to make his mark auy where, and he was an excellent speaker. He astonished some of the members of the Anglican Synod in no small degree by opposing on some points his opinion to the experience of their primate, Dr Selwyn. He is now at home, and has already made the fact known. He holds as pronounced opinions bb ever, and will do the colony a great deal of good by his truthful, and at the same time favorable report of its condition. His speech at the annual meeting of the Colonial and Continental Church Society was a very able effort of its kind, and he placed before his audience a view of the condition of the colony which I am convinced was new to them. He said amongst otber things, that before going out to New Zealand he had no conception of the vast progress made by all the colonies in civilization. This was hardly to be wondered at, for since my arrival here I have been asked the most extraordinary questions as to tbe manners and customs of the good people of Auckland, and the ordinary prevailing notion appears to be that you live in wigwams, clothe in frieze, and eat like cannibals. The notion of the " bush " has been so written and dinned into the English mind that a notion prevails that being in the colonies and in the bush is synonymous. On this ground it is that uninformed persons excuse the monstrous ignorance of the Wagga Wagga Tichborne. They imagine that having been some years in the colonies he has been for so long cut off from all ameliorating and civilising influences tbat he has forgotten everything he ever knew. Reverting to Bishop Su ter's speech — he said also, " Peraons in England sometimes speak as if the colonists would put up with ministers who would not do for this country. Now remember what Samuel Pepyß Baid WbenDr Bates and other eminent men

were turned out of the church in his day. He said, 'I hope the Government will send us good men, for bad men will not go down in tbe city. Read colony for city and that is true at the present time.' " He went on to discourage the idea of people of bad character emigrating in the hope that their antecedents would not be known in the colony, saying that quite the contrary was always the- case. He also showed what a mistake was the sending out of young men who were rather fast, saying that "wild oats produced a much larger crop in the colonies than here." He also showed how it was tbat the clergy in the colonies were obliged to look to the Society in question for assistance. It was, he said, in consequence of the rapid change of population which was continually taking place in all colonial towns which occasioned parishioners to be strangers to the long and laborious services of their pastors, and so they were not willing to supply funds as they would be had they beeu permanent residents.