The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 176, 25 July 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1879.

Tiie exhibition aiid concert in the Wesleyan Sunday Schoolroom was numerously attended again last night, very many of the children attending the Government schools having previously visited it in the afternoon. As there are yet several people desirous of Seeing the collection of exhibits, It bas been decided to open again to-night, when the charge for admission will be reduced to sixpence. We understand tbat the receipts up to the present time have been about £50. We understand that the return football match betwen the Town and College clubs will be played in the Botanical Reserve to morrow afternoon at three o'clock. After the excellent form shown by the College team during their trip, the Town will have to play all they know to score a win. The following are the names of the Town team :— J. Askew, Pollock, Boddington, Burnett, B. Clouston, Flint (captain), C. Hodgson, Harley, Haline, Morris, Morse, Pickett, Spencer, Wells, and Walker. Emergeney men : Wright, H. Hodgson, Sadd. The town team are requested to be on the ground not later than 2 a 45, so that a punctual start can be made. The following is the extract from Sir G. Grey's letter to Major Richmond alluded to in the letter of our Wellington correspondent: — " I did not answer your letter about your being appointed President of the Legislative Council at an earlier date, because I wished when I wrote to you to be able to write with some degree of certainty, and inasmuch as you were the only applicant for the office, whilst I knew that several other persons were probably very anxious to get it, although they said nothing. I did not desire to enter into a correspondence with anyone until I knew that I should in a short time set all doubts upon the subject at rest. I well recollect old times, and your many services to the State in dayß gone by. This, however, is a case in which one cannot give way to mere personal feelings, however strong these may be. There is a necessity in such an appointment to give assurance to the public that tbe Government intend to carry measures of a certain character, and to secure, if possible, existing laws, to which they stand pledged, from being repealed or in any way altered so that their force, or main characteristics might be destroyed; in fact, this is a case in which the public interests alone must be consulted, and I am, in fact, but a trustee of those interests, and must make my own feelings give way to them. Acting upon these principles, I fear that the choice of President must fall upon another person than yourself."