Local Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 94, 23 November 1859, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

Waimea East.— A public meeting of the industrial classes for the purpose of adopting measures for " representing to hia Excellency, on his arrival in Nelson, their general condition and clnhns," was held at the Richmond Institution on Thursday evening last. Mr. E. B. A. Eban in the chair. The meeting had been called by Mr. J. P. Horn, one of the members for the district in the Provincial Council ; and he submitted a memorial which he had prepared to the consideration of the meeting. This memorial (which reached our office too Into to bo printed in the prwoul

number, but shall appear on Saturday) was unanimously adopted, on the motion of Mr. C. Kearnß, seconded by Mr. T. Dodson, M.P.C., and after some remarks from various speakers, the meeting terminated with a vote ol thanks to the Chairman, The memorial is lying for signature at various places in town and country. Alarm of FIBE. — On Saturday morning, many of the townsfolks were alarmed by a cry of fire in tho neighbourhood of Trafalgar-Bquare. Some men had been clearing the gorse with which a portion of the square has been for years overrun ; and while burning it, the fire caught the neighbouring hedges. Fortunately, assistance was speedily obtained, and by cutting gaps in the hedges, the progress of the flames was arrested without doing any very material damage, except to some fruit-trees. Flax.— We aro glad to notice the export, per Roxana from London, of twenty-three bales of Nelson manufactured flax ; and we sincerely trust that this is but the beginning of a trade in this valuable product, which can be shipped in almost unlimited quantity from If ew Zealand.