TOWN EDITION Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 4th, 1887.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 79, 4 April 1887, Page 2

TOWN EDITION Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 4th, 1887.

At the meeting of the City Council on Friday night the wish was expressed, and very reasonably so, that full publicity should be given to Sir J. Vogel's circular respecting the Imperial Institute. This will be found in another column of to-day's issue, and, together with the extract from Professor Huxley's letter, will not only be read with much interest, but will, we doubt not, put the proposal to establish such an institute in an entirely different light to any in which it has presented itself to the public before. It is to be a memorial of a character most pleasing to Her Majesty of her long and prosperous reign, and more than that, it is reasonably expected to prove of great benefit to all the countries and colonies that will be represented in it, thus, in fact, combining the practical with the sentimental. Professor Huxley's "lofty conception of what the Itistitutu as a whole m»y be capable," will go far o recommend it to many hard headed colonials who might bo indisposed (o contribute Lo io merely as a memoriil of the Jubilee year, and tj procure for it support ■that otherwise tuigi.it not have been accorded to it. It ia not only to prove a means of 'advertising the produce and manufactures of the contributing coloui-s, bat) to be a huge educational establishment, where tho in* habitaats of ono country may learn how their own resources are turned to account better and mora cheaply ia another, and so receive valuable bints which they may posßibly bis able to turn to useful account on their return home. Bur, acceptable as such an Institute will be to tho Queon, and useful as it, must prove to her subjects, we do nob think it ehooli he accorded the first consideration by residents lin distant parts of the Empire. People living in the antipodes are quite as loyal to to the throne as are those who reside in London, but they will naturally pr?fer in selecting a memorial of the Jubilee year that it shall be something that will Berve to remind those who are to come after them in the country wherein they have made their home of Victoria's fifty yeara' reign. The wealthier colonists and business firms will no doubt feel it both a pleasure and a duty to subscribe to the Institute, wLich ie also an object to which the people as a whole might well contribute, but tbis can only be done by the General Government, for as a rule the treasuries of the local bodies are in anything bub a plethoric condition. It will be gratifying to lf-arn that the amount sent Home from New Zealand towards the expenses of the lusMtute is one that ia worthy rf the colony, but we hope that whatever is thus given will not interfere with the memorials, whether uLey take the form of public buildings, uloisbouses, or recreation grounds, that it is proposed to erect or make in the chief towns of the colony.