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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 267, 9 November 1867, Page 2

We beg to inform our subscribers and advertisers, that Monday nest being a General Holiday, there wilf be no publication of this journal.

After the prorogation of the. Provincial Council this morning a presentation of a peculiarlv interesting and gratifying character took ,plaee in the Provincial Hall, when a valuable gold hunting watch, with massive gold chain and seal attached, was presented to Air George White, the Clerk of the Council, by the past and present Memuers of the Provincial Council. It had been intended that the presentation should take place on Thursday evening, at a supper at the Bank Hotel, to which Mr White had been invited, but the destruction of that building by the calamitous flre . j which broke out that evening, necessitated its postponement until this morning. The Speaker, on behalf of the subscribers, expressed their sense as well of the Jong and able services which Mr White had rendered as Clerk of the Council, as of the confidence, respect, and esteem which they individually entertained for him in his private c ipacity, and of which the handsome present which he had the pleasure and privilege to hand ' to him was the tangible proof ; and in a few graceful and well-turned sentences gave utterance to the good wishes of :iie Council, and their hope that the recipient would long continue to occupy his present post at the table of the Council, which he had efficiently field from its first session. Mr White, who was evidently much overcome by this evidence of the kinUiy feeling entertained towards him, briefly expressed his gratitude for the honor which had been done him. which he sail.- .'ie i'e i--x'V. v.\ \;:>\)t n>.\ -:tri!t.'3fc «.-[ ihu good • wishes of the donors, both as members of the Council, and also as his private friends; and after again giving utterance to his deep sense of the compliment, which had been paid him, said that he hoped that, though he had been unwell during the present session, • the old horse would come home to grass again' next session. His Honor the Superintendent, who was present, with the Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Auditor, and the Kesident .Magistrate, tendered their congratulations, ia company with the members of the Council to Air White, and after partaking of refreshments, the party separated. The watch, which was supplied by Air A. Hunter, of Bridgestreet, bore an appropriate inscription, beautifully engraven by Air Thomas Hodgson. Two important events in connection with the Anglican Church are announced for next week. We allude to the consecration of St. Michael's Church, Waimea West, which is to take place on Wednesday afternoon next at 3 o'clock, and the laying of the first stone of the new Church of j St. Alban, at Appleby, which ceremony will be performed by his Lordship Bishop Suter at the same hour on Thursday. We are requested to call the attention of members of the Harmonic Society, to the practice meeting which takes place this evening at the mual hour and place, preparatory to the performance of sacred music which will be given at the Bishop's soiree on Tuesday eveni.ig, which will, we understand, include a miscellaneous selection from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Costa. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Samuel .->nuth, who was described as a laboier, was charged on three several counts, with stealing, on the night of the fire, three gold rings and a locket, of tue value of £l Is, the property of Mr J. C Phillips; six pairs of trousers, two waistcoats, and one coat, and also seven ne. kties, three belt.-;, twelve scarves, one needlecase, and two cards of butio'is, the property of Messrs Black, Campbell. & Black, and w-s fully committed fur trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. No little indignation has been excite I by the announcement that the Review of the Volunteer Companies, which had been long announced to take place on the birthday of H.K.li. the Prince of Wales, had been postponed by Major Morse sine die. The reasons assigned for this sudden announcement are the occuirence of the fire, and the statement that several of the Volunteers had lost their uniforms. We need hardiy remark that both excuses are equally frivolous and groundless, and strong suspicion naturally exists that the postponement had its origin in motives that are anything but creditable, and which argue a most lanientab'e want of courtesy to the lady wh has expended so mu.ii time and trouble on the preparation of the color for presentation to the Cadet Battalion. We understand that the captains of the Cadet Companies, resolvsd that no imputation of this nature shall rest on their shoulders, have applied to Major Morse to name some afternoon within the next fortnight for the presentation, and have suggested Tuesday week as a convenient date for the ceremony. As we have already announced, the usual procession of the members of the Nelson Band of Hope, with the tea both for the children and the adults at the Temperance Hall, take place on Monday next, the latter being followed by a grand display of dissolving views. • A correspondent calls our attention to an act fraught with considerable danger both to holders of house property, as well as to the goods of private individuals resident in the neighborhood of South-street. It appears that about 10 o'clock last night one of the denizens of that locality amused himself, with the assistance of some friends, with letting off a considerable number of fireworks of various kinds, which, after witnessing the terrible calamity which befell the city on the previous evening, naturally produced a good deal of alarm and anxiety amongst the other residents in that street. 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