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Evening Post, Issue 236, 9 November 1865, Page 3

" Yesterday morning, says the Canterbury Press of the 7th inst., a sample of black sand, through which specks of gold were very clearly discernible, was exhibited in Christchurch. The sample was said to have been obtained at the head of a creek running into the Wairaakairiri, about six miles above Bealey Town. By Cobb's coach, which arrived lait evening, another sample was received, similar in appearance to the former, and report said that several men had left the Bealey Township to examine the spot from which the prospect had been obtained. On Saturday we published authentic information of gold having been found on the Taipo, between the Waddles, and this discovery leads to a supposition that gold will yet be found in payable quantities on this tide of the ranges." We have received intelligence from Tasmania to the 18th October, but it is devoid of interest in local matters. We take the following from the Tasmanian Morning Herald of the above date: — By telegram from Melbourne, via Launceston, news has been received of several murders having taken place. The woman Harvey, and her son-in-law, the daughter of Euphemia and Fui Vigeroni, have been committed for trial, for the Sunbury murder. A man named Michael O'Brien gave himself up for shooting at a man who had been assaulting his wife, and whose screams attracted O'Brien to the hut. He followed him with a gun while leaving the hut and shot him dead. The coroner's jury refused to find any other verdict than that of justifiable homicide, but the P.M. tent the accused for trial. Falcon has been scratched for the free handicap. Butler was found guilty of murdering his mother at Tamworth ; the father was acquitted of the murder. The importation of cattle from Victoria has been prohibited at Canterbury. A sample of New Zealand coal of the most superior kind from Nelson was exhibited at Melbourne, and caused considerable excitement. "Thb Little That He Knew." — an undergraduate of Cambridge being examined for his degree, and failing in every subject upon which he was tried, complained that he had not been questioned upon the things that he knew. Upon this the examining master tore off an inch of paper, and pushing it towards him, desired him to write upon it all he knew. "Gentlemen," said Admiral Farragut, to some of the officials in the Navy department who wanted to put off a lot of "favourites" upon the old sea-dog as efficient officers—" gentlemen, you can no more make a sailor out of a landlubber by dressing him up in sea-toggery and putting • commission in his pocket, than you could make a shoemaker of him by filling him with sherry-coblers." Hard times undoubtedly give rise to sharp practices. The truth of this was further exemplified the other day when a gentleman residing in this place received through the post from Dunedin an account amounting to 6s, at the end of which the following request was penned :— "The ¦¦ respectfully request a remittance by return of post (in postage stamps, post office order, or otherwi«?) for the above amount, due for——. If a £ I note be forwarded, credit will be given

for the balance." A cooler trick seldom has been perpetrated.— Oamaru Times. Baron Bramwell has been making rather an exhibition of himself at Liverpool. A Quaker named Carson was summoned on a jury, and entered the court, of course, with his hat on his head. He was angrily ordered to take it off, fined £10, told that he was unfit to be a juryman, and that consequently he should be summoned again. Two days after, Baron Bramwell having recovered his temper, Mr. Carson was summoned, and informed by the same judge that he had a right to his hat, and that the fine was remitted. It is difficult to decide which showed the smallest mind, the man who thought retaining his hat matter of moral obligation, or the judge who on one day thought it matter deserving judicial cognizance, and on another a matter of indifference. It is ebulitions like these which destroy the old sacrosanctity of the judicial bench. — Home Paper.