The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7, 1867. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 210, 7 September 1867, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7, 1867. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington, Sept. 7, 12-19 p.m. The Legislative Council this morning presented an address to the Governor, who replied : Mr Speaker and Honorable G-en-tlemen — I can now only offer you my thanks for this address. I can no longer promise by public services in your behalf to show auy gratitude; but I thank you moat sincerely for the efforts you have so long made to secure the maintenance of the honor and authority of the Cro>vn, and the welfare of her Mjsjesty's subjects of both races, and to save Great Britain from an unnecessary expenditure of life and money. Kone can deny that a great and heroic work has been performed in this country. In the midst of difficulties of a most uuusual kind, men, many of whom were distinguished by birthaud intellectual and physical endowments of no common order, have, each in their vocation, by enterprise, toil, and suffering, continued through long years, laid the stable foundation of a great Anglo-Saxou nation. Men who have so laboured together, may well find a present happiness and consolation in their mutual regard, esteem, aud admiration, and leave the care of their fame and reputation to the grateful millions who will follow them, and for whom they have in truth laboured. Associated as I have been with you in so great a work for so many years, it is with sorrow that I find that the public ties which have firmly bound us together are now to be rent asunder, but it will be much to remember that, one of your last acts towards me has been to present to me an address of which any governor or ruler might feel proud, and to know that while I live I shall have the pleasure of seeing you still labor honorably to fulfil your duties to your Queen aud your country, however arduous they may be.