NORTHERN ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 2935, 16 July 1872, Page 4

NORTHERN ITEMS.

A contemporary says Nelson has beaten Wellington at football. They cannot beat at log-rolling. A private letter has been received recently at the Thames from a prospector in the Ohinemuri district, who states that he has some splendid specimens, and that he has every confidence that there is a large payable goldfield. On the substitution of Mr Harrison’s crude notions as contained in his “recommendations ” to the General Government in respect to legislation for the West Coast, the West Coast Times says :—“They may be regarded as a chimera, the realisation of which is as distant as the elevation of the member for the Grey Villey to the post of Premier of New Zealand.” A few nights ago, on the North Canterbury Railway, a cow lying between the rails was run over and killed. The only portion of the animal over which the wheels passed was the horns, which were both cut off. The body rolled along for about fifty or sixty yards before the engine, and the four carriages attached cleared it. Eoth engine and carriages were lifted from the rails as they passed over the cow, but happily they did not run off the line, and no serious injuiy was done to the machinery.