VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 93, 22 April 1869, Page 2

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.

To tub Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail

Sir — The quiet city of Nelson has been roused from her usual pace, aud for once ati-aimd vo a dignified stains amojj- her «isters, Violet like, she had remained ?'a L ae vnllev, and to the passers by seemed very much like an ordinary place; but tin's state oc things had continued long enough, and rie lime way at hand when a better wa3 to be introduced. Many may -iave safely Ba^d, — oh! yo;i will be always the same: but ifcjßgh r.'cse hat" not t'.iat cultivated and refined tas'e wlifc'i du'y ani'eciaiea ilie mode t but sweet flcwer lefsv.eu io, iljeve wtve sovce even among Hie great o"t!i3 eaiih who could substantially say — 'Then ]efc rae to the vallev 30." Thee have cor.ie, ami have been most euihusvistically received, and ihey deserve ii, and of these especially, out noble Sailor Prince, 11.!?. H., of whom we a e very ."ond, and to whom we most loyally bow, and cry ; .om our very JiearLs, God ble;-3 him.

Of cours3 t'jere lias been some exe'tement, and very liaiu.ally and light 1 v too: hut with ill's there has" been a\j Oe honest, warm-hearted, and (■inhere 8.!i.0n-'i!ce greeting,

It is cnicu'siecl that several thousands "v'sited Hie Cala^ea — as well as fo -i-'ing part ox tbe procet_io".i, in lion our o? the v'&il oP on i 1 royal guest. A ; u: o j number oi these have covne from several pavi3 o» i lie c -Uiitry. some even 30 and 4.0 mi'es away. Various ; iapveM>ioas hare lr e.i isceived by ihe iau"'i ucle — uyc, and by each person; aud •i,ii3:-e doubtless oc a most favourcble nature. We have I'.ionplit (and this has been our chief reason in penning ih's) that the combined i'ljfli eaces received on ihis occasfoa, nnisi tell ia re. 'eufc.ee ;o ihis, the land of ouv adoption. Surely ziie fatuve of our coun ivy must ba/e Jeen gre.iiiy effected (we speak pvospec Lively of coiv;-e) by tins occiivrcnce. Reii -.lin^' ;o our homes, "sxe shall feel a chser hovd of i'uio:i wltli i\e TM'-'ier count, tj. We are not le'L alone i.i the sha^e io v r asteours-\reetne?s on the des.ei\ air. We have now a practical mani'esCai'on ofihec''o&e tie esi&tiog beiv/eeo us aid the oil c«iu.iivy, an evidence too, that ouv ye! at nil ship ia ful'v ackao\v^d;>ed. 8.-itcia bv th : s k ; nd net has shev.M that we still Weloi)-:' to he v , and aUlv ti^h she does uofc s:iy very much, yet, like a good molher. is watchiog the inierebis oO he r child, a'ii.l tbi.iks the move. So.ne ave lonu in proFe&bH)i'-, but do little; she however, still shews that ohe las a mother's heart. It is a kind thought that iadicatcs the presence ot true affection.

A. id "will "\ve not be stimulated to do well in the future? Surely tlie tide lias now turned, and receiving the impetus it bviugs. we may hope that it will biinj us over very many difficulties, which avc had thought insurmountable. Let us take it as a stimulus to work-- to c:irve out our own future, to feel our independency by plodding on with i icreasing strength, tiniil t'ae vr.sfc resources, bolh o :> mineral aud agricultural vealtb, ave opened ort and brought w!ihi a our resch. Tliis m=U be the wo. ic of time, but let ns lake time by the forelock, embrace oor pr^seut oppovluniius. and wlio knows what another 10 ov 20 years v.-ill do for us as a couutiy and r<opie? Diifiral! ; es may siill exist, but they muse bo looked in the face, do not shy, like a timid liovsp, but seeing them, not looming, as they often do, by an excitable imagination, but as they are. Let us, as Britons nerve ourselves for a combat wiih them, and by continued assistance, we shall discover that we are the masters; thus, though it will iavo've labour, and ii, may be some degree of " roug'liir-g it" yet ultimately, we will overcome, and iheu, having tided over these, we will be the better prepared to receive and enjoy the blessings which honest labour earns. Yours, &c. Observer.