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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 706, 5 August 1869, Page 3

Eivk Hundred Pounds has been subscribed in Sydney for the liberated Fenians in Western Australia. Mounted Scouts. —The New Zealand Herald understands "that a subscription has been set on for a corps of this kind. The proposition is to distribute fifty of the most effective weapons to be had (Snider) to an irregular troop. The movement does not yet appear to hare attained sufficient maturity to allow us to mention names. We trust the project may find support. But will the ' powers that be' permit the power that may be got to do its work?" Goi/d at the Bat of Islands.—The New Zealand Herald, July 24, states that "the good people of the 'Bay' are in a state of intense excitement. AMr Davis, of Kororarika, found on the beach, in the early part of the week, a piece of stone which, attracting more than ordinary attention on his part, was broken up and lound to be full of gold. It was thoroughly water~worn. We are informed that two Thames miners who went up to the "Bay" by the last trip of the Comerang, have already leased some of the land in the vicinity, with the intention of mining on it, and we really see no reason why, if proper steps are taken to develop the capabilities of the field, the Bay of Islands should not yet prove to be one of our richest goldfields."

WONDERFUL PRESERVATION. —The following escape of a miner is reported by the Hokitika Daily News:—One of the most marvellous escapes from a fearful death it has been our lot to record took place yesterday at Boss. It appears that while a miner named Denis Kelly, a shareholder in flattery's claim, Donoghue's, at a little after o'clock, was in his hut cooking his tea, ion Jones' Flat, the ground gave way, and !hut, man, and everything disappeared in a yawning chasm, which closed immediately on the last of the hut being swallowed up. This extraordinary accident created intense excitement on the Flat, and nearly every miner volunteered his services to disinter the hapless Kelly from his mysterious tomb. The miners set to work with a will, and soon discovered that the hut had fallen down an abandoned shaft. The digging out process then commenced in earnest, and after sinking about twenty-five feet, the relief party came across Kelly, quietly ensconced in a drive, where he had been some time waiting for the appearance of his deliverers. Kelly's escape from annihilation is something wonderful, and the story of the occurrence is more like the legend of some goblin of oid than a sober narration of an accident which happened in this prosaic nineteenth century. From what Keliy says, it seems that al'ier falling about twenty-five feet, the downward progress was arrested by a number of slabs which were firmly attached to the side of the shaft. This not only prevented him from falling to the bottom of the shaft, bat kept the weight of a large quantity of tailings off his body, otherwise he would most certainly have been crushed to death. Kelly can congratulate himself ou his miraculous escape.

| " The Lictor."—By the last mail | from Sydney we received the firat number of a new comie magazine bearing the above title. It contains a very clever double cartoon, adapted i from the Midsummer Night's Dream, [printed on a tinted ground, after the manner of the " Tomahawk." The pioprietors are Messrs Lee and Greenup, both of whom are well known in Napier, and were at one time on the staff of this journal.