ICE FOR NELSON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 125, 31 May 1867, Page 2

ICE FOR NELSON.

To the Editor op the 'Nelson Evening Mail.' Sie —l happened to hear the worthy Secretary of our Acclimatization Society bewailing his inability to regulate the. temperature of the/water .to be supplied to his proposed Tfish ponds, ancLin.doing so he used-the words " Oh,-if I could but 1 getjce !" .Now I think I can suggest Jo. that gentleman a way by.which.he .may,. easily, obtain that which he so earnestly desires, and I.shall,..with,your.permission, do so through the medium of your valuable. little paper,,in the hope that the.subject may be taken up by the public.g.enerally. I suppose, there are. few places that? possess the same" advantages for -supplying, themselves with this commodity-.that-the. town of Nelson enjoys. Here we - have the, Dun Mountain; within. easy;.reach of us, and few people„will, .I'-tiiink,..doubt, that at this seasou of the year the thermometer would income of; the shady, gullies at that elevation.stand, considerably below freezing point the whole .day. At a very small, cost ice- ponds mjght be constructed; there"is plenty of timber for.erecting ice-; House's^; and-last, though,not ,leass there is a railroad, by which the ice mfight 'be; brought into Trafalgar-street evejy inornn g through the summer.. JT ''■ f% '.'.' '''■'"•

All this can,; J firmly, believe, be very easily accomplished ; and I hope some scorching dayyia February next to be able to call at Mr. .Johns' and enjoy aa ice cream, or to stroll into Mr. Everett's and cool my parched tongue with _a well icM : sherry co'bblerT ' ' " ; , til am, &c, _ ..Fjbigiditm Sine.