MARLBOROUGH.

Hawke's Bay Times, 17 August 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARLBOROUGH.

We, (New Zealand Advertiser) have papers from this Province to tho 18th inst. Taherei, the

condemned prisoner, had been executed. The following items of intelligence are from the Marlborough Press of the ITth instant:— EXECUTION OP TAIIEEEI. Yesterday, the extreme penalty of the law was carried out upon Tahcrei, who was sentenced to death at the last criminal sittings of the supreme court in Kelson, for the Amur! murders. He was executed at the usual hour, within the precincts of I’icton Gaol, in presence of his Honor the Superintendent, the Sheriff, Mr. Adams, J.P., Dr. Kilgour, Mr. Alexander, the gaoler, the constable, and several natives, one of whom officiated as clergyman. The demeanor of the prisoner was dejected but resigned ; and so far from offering any onnosition to the fatal preparations ho rather aided them than otherwise. Ho made no observations upon the scaffold ; nor, wo believe, did he say anything prior to his death. An inquest was held* upon the body at noon, Mr. Adams acting as coroner ; and a verdict was returned in accordance with tiie evidence of the officials present at the execution. THE LATE FLOOD. Few amongst the oldest of the settlers in Picton can remember a severer flood than the one that visited us during the early portion of last week. The weather, which had been threatening for some days previously, at last settled down into decided wet, continuing the whole of Sunday without intermission. On Sunday night the rain poured down literally in torrents, and continued almost vnceasingly during the whole of the following day. I’icton, on Monday, or rather that portian of it situated on the flat, presented the appearance of a largo inland lake, there being scarcely an inch of land that was not under water. The road between Picton and Blenheim during the forenoon of Monday, began to show evident signs of the rapidly advancing flood ; and on the arrival of the mail at the Koromiko Creek it was found impossible to proceed further, the foot bridge having been completely washed away whiht the watercourse itself had already become a torrent, completely flooding all the flat land in that vicinity. Mr. Strachan in endeavoring to cross the Koromiko, about noon on Monday, was washed off his horse, and only succeeded in rescuing himself from actual drowning by clinging to some bushes after being carried some three chains down the stream and by that moans again reaching term-Jlrrna. The only accident that occuraed in Picton was to the main foot-bridge over the Waltohi, which had some of its supports carried away, thereby occasioning a large portion of it to drop down towards the water, and making the passage across it: anything but a safe one. All travelling along the road between Picton and Blenheim became a matter of absolute impossibility on Monday evening, as the flood had risen so high as to completely place under water a great portion of the road which lo tiers the Tua Manna swamp, and in some places to a depth of ten feet. Tho mail was enabled to reach the Half-way House on Tuesday, but could not proceed further until the following day and a subsequent mail, which went through on Wednesday, just escaped swimming on that portion of tho road known as Mudford’s Flat. Notwithstanding the heavy rain that fell the passage of the punt was only stopped at Gouland’s Furry for about twenty-four hours, which is to be accounted for by the fact of the rain having come from the South-east, which would not greatly infect cither the Opawa or tho watercourses in the Upper Wairau. The flood that occurred in the Opawa could hardly be considered snffieent to thoroughly test the efficiency of the dam, a considerable portion of the bank higher up was, however, carried away, although tho .work itself incurred little or no injury. GOLD IX THE CLAEEXCE. We have several times had to record the discovery of gold in this province ; but hitherto there has not been sufficient inducement for testing tho value of the discoveries. We have again heard that gold has been found, in the river Dee, in tho Clarence dislrict. It is said to be of a very .fine quality, and that there is every prospect of a remunerative gold field in the vicinity. It is somewhat surprising that our Provincial Government should neglect to offer bonuses for the discovery of payable gold fields, in accordance with the unanimous vote of the Council at its last sitting.