HOPE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 325, 30 November 1860, Page 2

HOPE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Thb anniversary of this school was held on Tuesday last, at the Schoolroom, Hope, when the children, of whom a large number were in attendance with many of the parents, and several friends from Nelson, having partaken of tea, &c, were addressed by the Revs. W.M.Biss, J. Moorhouse, D. Dolamore, Messrs. Hodder, Packer, and others. The Rev. D. Dolamore in the chair. The report read by the teacher was of a satisfactory character. The proceedings were diversified by a small printing press being on the spot, which was employed in striking off copies of verses composed for the occasion, pictures, &c. During the meeting several appropriate pieces were sung in excellent time, and amusements of a general character occupied the remainder of the evening.

The Refugees.—-The following is extracted from a Taranaki paper:—*• Superintendent's Office, 10th October, iß6o.—The Provincial Government intend making arrangements for the conveyance of necessary articles' to families in Nelson. Persons wishing to avail themselves of this, offer, are requested to furnish without delay particulars of the articles they wish to send, in order that the Government may make the necessary arrangements for their coLveyaricer-T-E. L. Humphries,. DeputySuperintendent. ..'■'.;:. „•.-' LJ7 ..... Insubance.—A correspondent informs* us that' from and after Christmas next, the Liverpool and London office for policies against lire will be revised, corrected,, and delivered by their agents in legal form; and the directors (not merely the agents, as at present) will be made the responsible parties thereto for damages. This he informs us, with no little satisfaction, living as we do in houses of such inflammable materials, and more especially in dry weather when a single spark might so soon set us all in a blaze, and the underwriting party to the policies have to be called on. Nelson Mabket. —The new market-place was opened on Saturday last, aiid was well attended, especially by intending purchasers. The hour of opening was fixed at eight o'clock, but this was an erroneous calculation, for it is well known that Nelson folks do not think of commencing business so soon in the morning; and consequently, although matrons with their market baskets were waiting for the gates to be opened it was near ten o'clock before many of the stalls were occupied. There was a pretty good show of vegetables, which were readily disposed of; and the demand for strawberries far exceeded the supply. A few head of dairy stock and a cart mare were offered for sale (the former at from £7 to £10 per head), but we did not hear whether any sales took place. Tomorrow, we understand, there will be a butcher's shop at the market; and it is hoped that the vendors of produce will occupy their stalls at an earlier hour; for the general public appear to be well pleased With the market and are inclined to support it. VoiiUNTEEH Fines, &c—-The attention of those' gentlemen who joined the volunteers, elected their own officers, made their own rules? and agreed to 4 be fined for neglect of duty, is called to. a case,

decided in the Magistrate's Court, where, jfe addition to the fines, heavy costs were incurred. We copy the following from; a, London paper received by the last mail:-—'A case of interest to Volunteers was decided by the Woolwich; police magistrate on Tuesday. A member of the Royal Arsenal Volunteer Corps was summoned by the captain of the corps for the sum of .£3 odd, arrears of subscription, which he had refused to pay. The defaulter had been employed in the Arsenal, but was since discharged. He had sent back his uniform, but the latter was spoilt by being perforated by bayonet thrusts, and lie still belonged to the corps, not having sent in his resignation with the usual notice. Had he ceased *.q belong to the regiment, the remedy against,him would have been by County Court process; as it was, Mr. Traill convicted him under the Act in double the amount of arrears due.' 3 Death, op an Old Settler.—ln our obituary we record the loss of another of our oldest colonists in the personof Mr. Thomas Blick; of Brook-street Valley, who died on Wednesday last, in th* 58th year of his age. His remains will be taken from his late residence in the above locality on Sunday afternoon next for interment in the Cemetery ground. Mr. Blick arrived in the colony eighteen years ago, having landed under the auspices of the New Zealand Company on the 22nd February, 1843. About the year 1847 he commenced an attempt at cloth weaving, a trade he had been brought up to in Gloucestershire, England; but in consequence of the heavy expenses attending the spinnimr b£ hand. power alone, #as . compelled to discontinue it for some time. In 1858 he resumed the cloth weaving business, having enlarged l»ia apparatus, which wfta J9ftw, ; wflrked by.abullock, and having mastered difficulties ■formerly ex-' periehced with respect to the spinning process. He had yet however, to complete his laudable attempt to, produce cloth in Nelson of a quality' that would satisfy his judgment and the wants of the settlers, and with considerable ingenuity. arid expense he at length so. well added to bis arrangements that a small stream in the neighbourhood of his house was brought into use, a dam formed, and an aqueduct of some length erected to turn an overshot wheel of thirty feet in diameter. The interior machinery of his factory was also added V to and improved by machinery purchased inSydney^ and the milling process perfected; ulti- : mately a fabric has been turned out of good appear- " f*r c i and durab'e quality, under the name of Nelson Cloth,' though perhaps ' Tweed' would he . a more descriptive term for this article, which really possesses respectable pretensions, and has been adopted by several Volunteer companies in this province; Having succeeded so far in liis< endeavors, Death.has left to the remembrance of. his sons a career of perseverance worthy of imitation, and an occupation falls to them that by similar energy may be still more improved and rendered - remunerative. About twelve years ago one of his sons, connected with a survey party southward, was lost in a Maori vessel, which sunk, with eighteen ,; persons on board near Wellington. The deceased was a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a teetotaller for the last eighteen years, and a'deacon of the Baptist chapel, Nelson, and was deservedly respected by a numerous circle of friends and connections.