NELSON DIAMOND JUBILEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 35, 11 February 1902, Page 2

NELSON DIAMOND JUBILEE.

As the Diamond Jubilee of the Nelson provinoe hai just been oele irated the following, taken from the W.rlborough Jfxpreaa, is}interesting: -' tt was on the Ist February, 1542, ths the Fife shire arrived at Nelson wi i the first batoh of emigrants, andbel re the end of the month three MHpessels had also arrived. eight months of the lets than 67 ves-felsj arrived and starts. Before the endßfc* year the fiyavyirwri the first fa the colony, wifth Mr A'fwd as it*? editor, wafe being publish™ a shilling a copy. EOhurch ssiviceMpreregularly attended. There wH Band of Hope and a Temparance Hiety, and, what Wot more, n gaol aifttocks for law-breakers. The site ■ the town was whejrf. the saltwateHidge now s'a»ds. | It was found tft was not enough land in the vicing to supply the settlers, and it was deeded to Jay ou,t. a number of rural s«'c,tfQj4 in Wairau district, Some trouble trosa with the natives, who claimed tha, they bad not been paid for the land fcken. It was thoughtj by the Whites t'tat a show of force was all thai* wad necessary to settle theVbuainess. \ Oattain Wakefield with a pjpty of aboiit a) j^e,r\ x set out for the /district, whW he met the natives, soraie 100 in ijumber, under the chief Te\Ruap»rahl There w*s some di» ?ute,Vnd a figtt followed in which'so ae of tlhe English were killed, and tbej w Ve obi Jed tq retreat}.. ithe paky surrendered, and flered, by tkejtatrws, Jn all were lost. U 6 news of the paissacra caused a profound in Nelson, rid a general atthe natives rag feared. The agan drilling, and the Ohurch Vtified as fai ■ as possible. In first s,e}BCti<! n of rural lands ade, and the Wairau >wn open. J j n 1853 tbe ion to the Qjeneral Assembly oe, The ilafom meinbeis the House on,epreimtatives ssrs W. T.mu Tnvers, J. W. O Oaim y , Picard, F, '. David Mi«r 0; ft 'd to the re Council, Be Hon, Mesirt R Ricflrdson, and. 1%. 1. The FMvincial Oonnoi! o befog, Mth Mr Edward as euperßtendent. Five ;er WairaiM Be parated from and the (flvinoj of Ma,rl was create* This m,ean(j i bje oj reV ßnu,e to, jth< royinc»> r ao« w hen Mr Alfred was eIeWK Huperinteudjenl he finan Af wu vbj

ffiHl. The gold rush to the Wet < ?F■ set in noon afcer, an-i a vary " change took place. In 1866 . >HpOO in revenue was obtained from y*Tsoast alone. i I i