The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY. MARCH 7, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 66, 7 March 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY. MARCH 7, 1876.

New Zealand has been brought before the English people of late years in more ways than one. As a largo borrower of money for the prosecution of public works she is well and, it is pleasant to be able to add, favorably known in commercial circles, while as a very large importer of immigrants she has created some stir in the agricultural districts. But she is also being talked of now in social matters. The Hon. "W. Fox, whose zeal in the cause of teetotalism is so well known, and whose oratorical powers have done ao much to advance the cause he so warmly espouses, has for some time past been constantly addressing large audiences in various partß of the United Kingdom, and on all such occasions he appears before his hearers not merely as Mr Fox, but as Mr Fox, the ex-Premier of New Zealand, and at his meetings he generally alludes in glowing terms to the country to which he is so much attached, and in whose history his name, since the foundation of the colony, has always occupied a prominent position. It certainly is an advantage to New Zealand to have such a representative in the old country, and we question whether Mr Fox's eloquent addresses will not do more to attract attention to these islands than all the lectures of paid emigration agents. It is gratifying to find that Mr Fox is being so well received at home, and that he is calling forth from eminent men such expressions as that " New Zealand is one of the best colonies under the British Crown." This we learn from the Alliance Neios, in which appears a speech made by him at one of the meetings of the United Kingdom Alliance, at which the chair was taken by Mr B. W. Whitworth, M.P., and the following resolution, on the motion of Mr N. P. Downing, seconded by Mr Alexander Brogden, M.P., was unanimously carried : — " That this meeting recognises with fraternal cordiality the presence of the Hon. W. Fox, late Premier of New Zealand, whose persistent and patriotic efforts in that rising colony, and during his visit to his native country on behalf of temperance legislation, entitle him to earnest thanks, and should incite all the friends of the United Kingdom Alliance to a more energetic prosecution of the noble and necessary work in which they are engaged." In Mr Fox the teetotallers of New Zealand have a champion of whom they and the colony generally may well be proud.