Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 213, 30 October 1880, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1880.

We are glad to be able, on the authority of Mr Arthur Collins, who was chairman of Mr Saunders' recent meeting at Kaikoura, to state that the report of the speech which was telegraphed was to some extent an erroneous one. Mr Collins says that Mr Saunders referred to " repudiation " as some- { thing the very idea of which was to be scouted, at the same time giving it as his opinion that the finances of the colony bad got into such a deplorable state that the most disastrous consequences at one time appeared to be imminent, and were only staved off by the determined stand taken by the Government, and the rigid economy they were introducing into the administration of all the Government departments. At the close of his speech Mr Saunders was asked by an elector what would be the results of repudiation, to which he replied at some length, concluding by stating that one of them would be that every New Zealand colonist would or should be ashamed to look an honest man in the face. This explanation, it will be noticed, does not exactly tally with the statement made by Mr Saunders in his letter to the Lytlelton Times, which we published on Thursday, that " the two hours' speech did not contain the word repudiation Bor a word about it," but it certainly puts a different coloring upon Mr Saunders' utterances to that imparted to them by the telegraph agent. Our readers will be glad to learn that they are shortly to have an opportunity of listento Mr Proctor's fascinating lectures on astronomy, he having engaged the Theatre for the 16th, 17th, and 18th of November. The next session of the Diocesan Synod will commence on the 18th November. Sergeant George Siicock has been dismissed from the Waimea Rifles for repeated absence from parades. The following telegram announcing the fact appeared in the Wellington Post last night:—" The officer commanding the Volunteers in this district has received an intimation from the Marine Office to summarily dismiss a sergeant in the Waimea Rifle Corps, for repeated absence from parades." What the Marine Office has to do with the conduct of a member of a Rifle Corps we are at a loss to know, unless the Waimea Company is in any way connected with the gallant old corps of Horse Marines of which at one time we used to hear occasionally.

The Customs duties collected at the Port of Nelson for the month of October amounted to £2809 9s 6d, made up as follows:— Spirits, £720 4s 6d; cigars, £18 9s; tobacco, £389 13s 2d; wine, £84 17a; beer, £45 10s 6d; tea, £155 7s; coffee, £33 9b; sugar, £69 Us; goods by weight, £199 5s 3d; ad valorem, £697 4s Id; other duties, £240 83 lid; beer, £112 is 4d; other duties, £43 8s 9d. The privileges for the Canterbury Metropolitan Race Meetiug were sold yesterday. The biddings were far from spirited, and the total realised was £GO7. A j.ady dentist haa started at Napier. TnE A. Z. Times of yesterday says :— " Quotations "is the title of a little pamphlet compiled by Mr Elijah Tucker, of Nelson. An old pressmau, well read and scholarly, a dear lover of books for the good that is in them, a keen seeker after bright thoughts hidden in musty tomes, a finder oft of pearls even among literary garbage. Evidenced of his keon research are giveu in tho collection of "Quotations," which he now produces in modest form. He has gathered up fragments from a host of authorities, beariug mainly, in this his first series, on political and financial topics. The extracts are for the ro.ost part terse epitomes of heathly sentiment and honest thought, and we hope that ihe efforts of the compiler will be practically appreciated, so that he may fulfill his expressed intent and aspiration to bring out a second aeries speedily. The publishers are Messrs 11. Lucas and Son, of Nelson, the price but sixpence. At the present time when a variety of opinions are being expressed as to tho individual who is to be credited with the establishment of Sunday Schools, the following will be read with interest. In Wellington a discussion similar to that going on here is takiug place, and our extract is from the Poit of last night : — " The question has been V(r/ fully discussed at Home j and it appears to be generally agreed that, although unquestionably the Sunday school did exist, in some form, before the time of Raikes, yet it was he who developed the idea, and gave to Sunday school work the importance which it deserved, and in fact, gave it the start which afterwards led to the mighty extent of usefulness it has since attained. It may be interesting to repeat the names of those whose Christian efforts, as the originators of Sunday schools, are commemorated on the monument referred to. They are as follows: — Cardinal Borromeo (Roman Catholic) Milan, 1580; Rev Joseph Alleme (Nonconformist), Bath, 1668 j Mrs C. Boevey (Church of England, Flaxley, 1717; Rev Thoophilus Lindsey (Unitarian), Catterick, 1764; Mrs Catherine Cappe (Uniteri&n), Bedale, 1765; Miss Hannah Ball (Methodist), High Wycombe, 1769; Mr William King(YVhitfieldite), Dursley, 1774; Mr James Heys (Presbyterian), Little Lever, 1775; Rev Tbomas Kennedy (Episcopalian), Dowupatrick, 1776; Rev David Simpson (Church of England), Macclesfleld, 1778; Rev Thomas Stock and Mr Robert Raikes (Church of England), Gloucester, 1780." The Lyttelton Borongh Council, like the Nelson City Council, has refused to accept the Government's terms for prison labor. The Post says: — v If this example is followed by other bodies, we believe that the Government have in view certain works on which the convict labor can be utilised, without in any way entering into competition with the ordinary wages class of workmen."