CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 311, 29 December 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

NELSON AND THE IMMIGRATION SCHEME. To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir— The excitement and hustle of ill* Inhibition and the elections being over it mil be well to remember that the material for the work to be published by the General Government on the resources of Ntw Zealand is being got together, and that the information regarding each province has to be supplied by the respective local Governments. The other provinces are securing the best available tilent to ensure that everything shall be fairly and properly stated and illustrated, but we do not hear of anything being done in this direction in our own locality, and it will be simple childishness on our part to complain, if when the book is publi B hed, we find Nelson scantily noticed or the information supplied unreliable, and unaccompanied by a single illustration. The necessity of forming, and the success that has attended the efforts of, the Inland Communication and Exhibition Committees have shown us that we must look after these things ourselves or we run the risk of going to the wall. Ifc is of no use leaving such matters to the Provincial Government; we do them best oursdve?, and if the above named Committees desire to complete tho work they have taken in hand they Will not rest until they have assured themselves thafc such attractions as we have to offer to intending immigrants are fairly placed before the English public. We owe those Committees a great deal already; let them increase ! the obligation under which they have placed the ! people of the province by taking this matter up and seeing that Nelson is made to figure as prominently and as favorably as any of the other provinces in the Government guide to immigrants. lam, Ac, Citizen.

We (' Marlborough Express') learn that Mr George Henderson will resume his old post in charge of Messrs. N. Edwards and Co. 'a branch establishment at Blenheim on Mr Connal's departure. At a farewell dinner given to Mr Connal at Blenheim, Mr Goulter, in proposing the toaat of the " Town and Corporation of Blenheim," said:— They talked about Nelson's Waterworks, he had been in Nelson and seen them throwing a little dribbling stream on the streets, jusS enough to lay the dust, bin what was that compared to the Blenheim Waterworks, that occasionally rolled in a majestic flood through every street? (Laughter and applause ) Gentlemen might laugh, but he believed the floods of which some people were afraid, were not such enemies as they were supposed to bej there were towns that through bad drainage and want of cleanliness were very unhealthy, he had seen the streets of those towns almost impassable for mad, but the streets of Blenheim were washed almost as clean aa a marble floor. (Hear, hear, and renewed laughter.) We ('North Otago Times') believe the cost of the District Court machinery has been twenty- fold saved by the prevention of those trade swindles which used to be only too frequent when bankrupts knew that their hearing would be in Dunedin, and that the odds were ten to one tha* creditors would not sacrifice the time to go down to oppose. We (« Telegraph ') understand that the representatives at the Colouial Prize Firing will be encamped under caovaaa at Taradale during the shooting, in order to obviate the expense of conveyance to and from the range ground. This arrangement will doubtless prove very convenient to many of the representatives, while those who can afford to live in town, and pay for trap hire, there will be no necessity for them to take advantage of the means placed at their disposal by the Government to live cheaply. The following ia a description of the robes worn by the Mayor of Christchurch on the occasion of his eloctiou :— Tho robe adapted by the Mayor is composed of purple velvet, with train of eighteen inches, trimmed with ermine, and lined with amber-colored silk, and large open sleeves. The band or collar is made of biack velvet edged witli handsome gold braid, and four | gold stars on breast of same, and attached to the point ia the city coat of arms, em- ! broidered in gold and silver, with gold ! border. The first link of a chain is n!?o appended to the coat of anna, the intention ] ijeiug to add the liaks of the preceding Mayors. The cap ia made o( the same velvet, with gold button and ermine border. ,