The Westport Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1873.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1130, 5 December 1873, Page 2

The Westport Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1873.

Like sudden gaze on bubbling stream and verdant pasture, after weary wanderings through the dust and grime of crowded city, like flight from the foetid odours of a charnel house to the pure air of breezy upland, must be to the inhabitants of fair Nelson city the brief reprieve from election strife, now found in 'contemplating and sharing in the Buccens of their " Fxhibition." To residents on the Coast the boon is denied, except to the lncky few who find means to escape from the toils and turmoils now surrounding them, but to all it must be a matter of sincere congratulation that the .success of the exhibition has been so well assured. The proof demonstrative of riches, the exceeding store of gold and rare minerals, of coal •and timber, of horticultural and flori-

cultural treasures, and of the progress of art and industry, will all find a thousand herald tongues proclaiming the bright future in store for this much maligned and badly treated province. To the people of the Province also it will give an incentive to put out their best strength, to shake off the iuertuess'that has tuo long prevailed, and rouse up to honorable emulation. It wants but this to make pregnant with meaning the words of Sir David Munro, at the opening ceremony. " There is," he said, " proof in the collection that there are sources of industrial power in Nelson, which, large and valuable as they are at present, will increase in quantity as the country becomes better known and explored. * * * The confidence in the future of the province, which an Exhibition of its resources is so justly calculated to produce, will go far to render the people of Nelson indifferent to the innocent pastime indulged in by some of her neighbors, who regard themselves as much faster, of calling the place by the nickname of Sleepy Hollow."