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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 11, 12 September 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

i The Nelson Gold Fields. — By the s. s. Storm [Bird we have received inportaut news from the ! Waimangaroa diggings which are situate near the j Buller river, on the West Coast, 'i he gold, which jis in large quantities, is got by the Maories, there 'being no Europeans there. A man by the name : of Henry Godfrey, described as being late of Wel- | lington, had been accidentaly killed by the falling iof a tree at the Wangapcka. An attempt is being jmade at Nelson to raise the rate of laborer's wages * to 10s. 'I? - day. How did Jonah look when he was beirg swallowed by the whale ? Down in the mouth, and going to blubber. Mr. Spurgeon has given a flat denial to the story which has been “ going the rounds ” as to his having begged a clock for his new tabernacle. Whatever appears in the papers about him, whether good or bad, the rev. gentleman says his friends may feel quite sure is a . Tjj e book of the Hon. Mrs- Xelverton has appeared, or at least a first part. It had belter never have been written, and those who have counselled its publication have done an unwise thing. To say that “ Martyrs to Circumstances" is trifling and weak is about the mildest observation that could be made. The Ameiicans boast of a man so benevolent that he used to hold an umbrella over a duck in a shower.