The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1880

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 103, 30 April 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1880

The concert given at Motueka by the Nelson Wesleyan Choir last evening was a great success, there being a large attendance, ■while the weather was as fine as could be wished for. The choir and a number of people from Nelson proceeded across in the Lady Barkly in the afternoon, and were hospitably entertained by the residents of Motueka. At the conclusion of the concert a vote of thanks to the Nelson Choir for j their valuable services was proposed by Mr R. Hurathouse, M.H.R., and replied to by Mr Haddow. Votes of thanks were then passed to Mr Hur'thouse for the use of the piano, to the ladies for the capital tea they had provided, and to those gentlemen who had sent traps to the wharf to convey the visitors to town. The proceeds of the concert will be devoted towards the liquidation of the debt on the Motueka Wesleyan Church. The Lady Barkly returned to Nelson at one o'clock this morning. The Oriental Exhibition was closed last night, after a most successful eeason here. The Turks proceeded by the Murray to the West Coast this afternoon. A meeting of the members of the City Rifles is called for at the Nelson Hotel this evening, when a full attendance is requested. A public meeting in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Temperance Society will be held in the Wesleyan school-room, Hardy-street, to-night, when addresses will be delivered by the President and others, the whole being interspersed with music. An emergency meeting of the Tradesmen's Athletic Club will be held at the Trafalgar Hotel this evening at half-past seven. There was only a very limited attendance of the Committee and others interested in the Horticultural Society last night, and it was decided to adjourn the meeting to Monday evening next. Messrs Sharp and Pickering will sell by auction at noon to-morrow, for the trustee in the estate of Henry Adams, a cottage and land in Collingwoood street, having a frontage of about 30 feet. On Monday next they will hold a clearing sale at Fairbrook farm, Quail valley, at 2 o'clock Mrs. E. Hardinge-Britten has been writing to several American papers her impressions of Australia and New Zealand. In a letter to the Banner of Light, one of the leading Spiritualist papers in the United States, she thus discourses on our colony : — " Of the lands I have visited, I may say in brief, Australia, with all its unwrought treasures and vast extent, ia far less attractive in point of soil, scenery, and climate, than New Zealand, which is an earthly paradise ; in fact, if there ever was a Garden of Eden its site must have been at Nelsou, and if it was not so, it ought to have been, for there ia just the spot where Adam and Eve could have found their Eden, and that without even the ghost of a serpent to tempfc or betray them. Of this lovely land, and its unique and singular natives and natural history, I propose to speak more at large ,in one or two special lectures."