MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF NELSON.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 161, 5 April 1845, Page 19

MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF NELSON.

The working classes of Nelson have held several meetings during the past week to discuss the steps which should be taken to secure the settlement against any hostile attack of the natives. A deputation of ! them having waited on the Police Magistrate to request that a public meeting should be called to devise measures for the public safety, the request was acceded to, and the meeting took place in the Court House this day at two o'clock. After a short discussion, it was agreed to put the Fort in complete repair, and make such other defences as the safety of the inhabitants required, by volunteer labour. The day appointed for carrying this into execution is Thursday next ; the sittings of the Supreme Court, it was thought, would prevent the attendance of a large number of persons on an earlier day. The meeting was also of opinion that it was desirable for the inhabitants to be regularly drilled, and to establish a nightly watch. The magistrates expressed their willingness to co-operate with the settlers, and to exert themselves to the utmost to ensure their safety. Messrs. Fox, Macshane, C. Elliott, Fell, and Coates, were nominated a committee of safety, to whom the details of the defences are to be left.

It is stated in the Auckland papers that a Militia Bill is to he immediately passed, and the report is confirmed by the Superintendent in an address to the inhabitants of Wellington.