The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 21, 24 January 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1874.

Mr. B. Short, late of Sydney, will preach in the Wesleyan Church, tomorrow morning and evening. The young are specially invited. City Rifles. — A meeting of the members of this corps will be held at the Drill Shed this evening, for the purpose of revising th^jc ules and byelaws. ; Perseverance Company. — The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders will be held at the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday evening, after which there will be a special meeting to elect a director in the place of Mr Henry HounselJ, resigned. Printed copies of the accounts can be obtained at the office of the Legal Manager. Carpenters' Strike. — A meeting of the carpenters of Nelson was held on the"Church Hill last night, when it was resolved to demand ten shillings a day, being an increase of one shilling on the existing rate of wages. The nomination of candidates for the Superintendency of Marlborough takes place on Thursday next, and the polling on the 19lh of February. In addressing the boys at the Dunedin High School, Mr Vogel said: — I have been speaking of intellectual acquirements, but there is to be acquired in the schoolboy's career another most useful branch — I call it knowledge for that is the best name — which is eminently useful in after life. If I were to describe it in one word it might seem as if I weri attaching too much impor^ceffr&itAnd perhaps the convential meanlagt atgadied to it is not sufficient to njeet its lull .tiean&g. You will find in after life tfiat^n'ere knowledge often does not obtaiff the real rewards and merits if unassociated with a pleasing manner, and liani one of those who believe that a schpolboy's education is not complete if, besides a large knowledge acquired it does not carry with it a pleasing and genial manner. Now this is a thing I may be told cannot be learned. It may be said that you cannot have a class to teach manners. If you do, no doubt manners would degenerate into more affectation; but what I mean to describe as manner is tbat self-respect whioh teaches us to feel and know that we have thoughts and aspiration to be proud of. Self-respect teaches us a certain amount of self-assertion, but not that amount of self-assertion, and no defence to the opinions of others. Depend upon it that a genial manner — whicb, after all, is an evidence of a good heart and good feeling, an evidence of satisfaction with one's self and of a desire to be pleasant towards others — is preliminary useful in \vetif stage of life, and Bhould always Hoe joined with the pursuit of absolute knowledge. Knowledge is said to be power, but depend upon it knowledge combined with a pleasing manner is still larger power. I say this much because I believe one of the great means of acquiring a pleasing manner is a spirit of discipline. One of the oldest and best of Victorian cricketers received an unusual presentation lately. Every Victorian has heard of Dan Sweeney, the hero of a hundred fights, who has captained Ballarat teams to victory for ever bo many years. Iu one of the matches for places among the tweuty-two to play against the All England, Sweeny went in and was bowled for a duck's egg, which has not happened to him since he has been connected with Ballarat. The club could not allow such an extraordinary event to pass unnoticed, and a leather medal, ahout eight inches in, diameter, and bearing the following inscription, was presented to him in the afternoon: — "Presented to Dan Sweeney, our mainstay, in commemoration of his grand score made in the match Ist Eleven v. next Eighteen, Nov. 29, 1873." Round the rim 4e" v the words, « May his shadow and'-score never grow less. Medal struck, Dec. 1, 1873." Mr Sweeney made a suitable acknowledgement.