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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 172, 25 July 1867, Page 3

:; At the Provincial Cpuncil to-day, Mr ,\ Wastney's motion, asking the Council to _| sanction the introduction of a bill into the '$_ General Assembly authorising the adop- ■ I tion of the electoral rolls of Nelson and ~| Mavlhorouffh. for the election of Trustees I of the Nelson Trust Funds, and for the 'i_ election of the. Governors of Nelson ;l College, was lost, Mr. Burn moving "I the previous question, and alleging that % there were large properties held by .; the Trustees, and care should be taken ;| how those trusts were interfered with. Mr % Pitt's motion that the ad interim report of iifthe select committee on the Buller and ■ -^t ■\~5 -..

otlie'- coal-fields be adopted, was carried. Mr " Dreyer (for Mr Kingdon) moved the adoption of) the select commitee on the petitions of William Fox and Timothy Linehau and others, which was carried. Mr Wastney's motion that the ad interim report of the Harbor Embankment Committee be adopted was also carried. Mr Donne asked the Provincial Secretary whether it is the intention of the Government to give effect to a resolution of this Council regarding the propriety of holding sittings of the Westland District Court on the South-west Gold-fields, and if so when ? The Provincial Secretary would state in reply that, although it was the intention of the Superintendent to bring the subject before the General Assembly, there was nothing in the resolution alluded to which called for such action, all resolutions of this nature being forwarded by the Speaker of the Council to the General Government. Mr Wastuey's motion that the several bills, the introduction of which has been prevented this session, be prepared and published as early as possible before next session, was carried. In reply- to a question from Mr Donne as to the extension of the Education Act to the West Coast, the Provincial Solicitor said that the extension of the Act did not rest with the Government, but with the Central Board, and Mr Wastney stated that the West Coast had already been proclaimed an educational district. On the motion of the Provincial Solicitor, a deputation, consisting of the Provincial Secretary and himself, waited on his Honor the Superintendent, who presently entered the Hall, attended by the Provincial Treasurer aud the above mentioned members of the Executive. His Honor then delivered a speech expressing his intention to carry out the several reco mraen ~ dations of the Council, giving his assent to certain bills, and finally proroguing the Council, which must appear in to-mor row ' s issue. His Honor then withdrew, and the business of the session thus terminate^. A German journal relates the following anecdote, on the authority of a traveller recently returned from Africa: — "-A--wealthy Arab, residing near the frontiers of Morocco, lately paid his first visit to Algiers, and was present at a ball. On his return home he said to his wives, ' What strange creatures these French womenare! Would you believe it, they actually carry an open umbrella under their petticoats!' Such was the idea formed of crinoline by this son of Mahomet."