LOYALTY IN NELSON.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 116, 9 May 1868, Page 5

LOYALTY IN NELSON.

The Nelson Provincial Council met on the 21st inst., when the Superintendent in his opening address referred to the late attempt to assassinate Prince Alfred, and expressed an opinion that the Council would wish to forward an assurance of sympathy with the Queen and testifying to their loyalty. Standing orders were then suspended to admit of addresses being moved to her Majesty and Prince Alfred. The Provincial Solicitor in moving them made a very loyal speech in which he said—“ Although the outrage had not been committed in this colony, yet the whole of these colonies were so mixed up together in the minds of many of the English public that we should come in for a share of the regarded as one of the blackest pages in the history of Australia, when it should be written that our Queen, 1 a sovereign beloved by all her subjects, whose sole aim since she had occupied the British throne had been the happiness and welfare of her people* and and also who had ever been ready to comfort and relieve the affliction and distress of all classes, had sent her sou to visit us in these distant lands, that when he was enjoying our hospitality, aiid when every handshould have been lifted up for his protection the bloody hand of the assassin was raised against Hiih, and an attempt made to take his Ilk He knew not whether Fenianism had anything tt> do with it, but all he could say was that if Fenianism required the bloody hand of the assassin for its support it would never succeed, for such deeds could only strike with horror the heart of every right-minded Irishman. [Hear, hear.] If Ireland had her wrongs, and probably she had, let-her point theta out and use every legitimate and; proper means to redress them, and she would meet with the sympathy

and support of Englishmen, and Scotchmen tod: [ Hear, hear.] If it was separation they wanted; he believed that if ever Ireland was separated from England it would be but the cat’s-paw of some foreign power. It was too disunited to maintain its independence. It would be like some of the new provinces in New Zealand, sooii wish that no separation had ever taken place.” What the last sentence means, we cannot tell; If intended for this province we can only say that we have hot heard any such wish expressed.