Interprovincial Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 781, 25 April 1870, Page 3

Interprovincial Items.

The following telegram from Nelson, dated 21st April, appears in the Evening Post: —News has been received of a quartz reef at Havelock. There is said to be good gold in blue stone. One-ninth share has sold for £IOO. The following telegrams, dated Dunedin, 20th April, appear in the Evening Post: —The Escort brought down 3,995 ozs of gold.— On dit, Mr Fox is to be entertained at a dejeuner, when he will give an address on politics.—The Cavershara nomination took place yesterday. M'lndoe's election is considered certain. —Dredging the Shotover paying handsomely. One party on the river is making £I,OOO a month. The wardens' quarterly reports represent the districts as in a very satisfactory state. — A Chinese, at Lawrence, has discovered an 11 oz nugget.—J. W. Grieve, Civil Engineer, well known in connection with dredging here has committed suicide.

The New Zealand Herald, April 9, thus reports a cause of sudden death:—A women named Macky, aged 57, expired somewhat suddenly on Thursday evening, at the Victoria Hotel, West Queen-street. It appears -that she came up from the South by the s.s. Wellington, on her last trip to visit her son-in-law, Mr James, proprietor of the Victoria Hotel. While on board the Wellington on Wednesday, she was seized with a fit, which was followed by several others of a very severe character. Dr Nicholson was immediately sent for, and the sufferer was removed to Mr James' house, where she remained, apparently much better, until Thursday evening, when she was seized with an apoplectic fit and expired. There having been several sudden deaths of a somewhat similar character within the last few months, and dissatisfaction having been expressed by the friends of the deceased persons at there being an inquestwhen it was unnecessary, Dr Nicholson gave a certificate} that the death, in the present instance, had resulted from apoplexy, and the deceased was buried yesterday afternoon. We quite agree with the doctor that in such cases as these> where death is so plainly attributable to natural causes, there should be no inquest. It cannot possibly serve any good purpose, and is only harrowiug to the feelings of the already bereaved relatives.

The Thames Advertiser's correspondent writing from Hastings (Tapu Creek), 12th April, sajs; —"Considerable excitement here in consequence of some reported heavy finds of alluvial gold Up the Mata Creek, four or five miles up, in one of the tributaries to the main creek." The Nelson Mail records a fire at Waim< a East. The Eanzau parsonage (Lutheran) was totally destroyed by fire on - the 15th instant; the flames being first discovered in the south gable end, and, the roof being of thatch, all efforts to save it were fruitless, the fire spreading so rapidly, that the inmates barely escaped with their lives. Mr Stafford was to be at Tim am on Tuesday last, and to address his constituents on Thursday. This will be the Hon. gentleman's first public appearance since his retirement from office, and his speech on the occasion may be expected to prove a very interesting one. There has been a quantity of smoked baracouta lately imported into the Timaru district of a decidedly poisonous nature The Timaru Herald says :—" The symp toms of poisoning are quite alarming, and remain for about two or three hours upon the person who has been unfortunate enough to have partaken of the fish, when they gradually die away without leaving any serious results. The symptoms are excessive palpitations of the heart, difficulty of breathing, and a very painful rush of blood to the head. Wo hear of a number of persons that have been affected in this manner without being able to attribute it to its true cause." The Nelson Examiner, of the 16th, says that on Monday last an application for a proprietor's claim was lodged in the war den's office by Paul Doran, for a party of five, claiming to have discovered a rich quartz reef on a spur between Blue and Nuggetty Creeks, about a mile west of Culliford's claim. The prospectors state they believe that it runs parallel to Culliford's reef, and that they have found it in three different spots. All agree that the stone is equal, if not superior, to the stone discovered by Culliford. The men who made the discovery arc experienced miners, and not likely to raise a cry that would cause a false rush.

j A very melancholy case of sudden death is reported by the Auckland papers. Mr Lawrence Lazard, a Jew, had been charged with breaches of the Customs Act, and on the afternoon of Saturd iy, the 9th inst., he was fined £IOO and costs. During the whole of a long trial he had maintained the most remarkable composure, and at its conclusion went, in company with a detective officer, to the Auckland Hotel, where ho drank a little gih-and-water. Saturday being his Sabbath, there was some delay in procuring the money for the fine and costs, and a warrant of commitment was accordingly made out. Ho was at first under the impression that he would bo detained at the Police Station in High-street, but when he found he was to be placed with the criminals in the Mount Eden Jail, in the words of the Southern Cross, "it seemed too much for his slight physical frame. His face blanched, a wild hysterical cry burst from his lips, his whole frame was seen violently to shake, and he leaned, or rather fell, against the porch at the entrance of the Court-house." He was carried into the office of the Commissioner of Police, where restoratives were applied, but when an attempt was made to remove him to an airier position he exclaimed, "Let me die here." These were bis last words. He became rigid, his face, neck, and breast turned black, and before a medical man could arrive he died —within a quarter of an hour after sentence was pronounced. The medical evidence at the inquest was to the effect that death resulted from atrophy of the heart, caused by excitement. The following particulars of the deceased are furnished by the Southern Cross : —" Deceased, we believe, was a remarkable man. Born in London, of German parents, he was removed thence to Erankfort-on-the-Main in his childhood, to receivo his education, which was a more than ordinarily liberal one, Mr Lazard being a perfect master of the English, German, French, Italian, and other modern languages, besides having a profound acquaintance with the mother of many languages—the ancient Hebrew. On the completion of his education he returned to England, where for several years he held responsible and lucrative situations in several large firms in London, Manches ter, and Bradford. Bemoving to the Australian Colonies several years ago, ho has held different appointments there, until about two years ago, when he became connected with the extensive firm of Lazarus and Co., of London, Melbourne, and Dunedin, general importers. About twelve months since he came here for the purpose of opening a branch store for the above firm, and was, we believe, engaged to be married shortly to a wealthy lady in Melbourne. His father is dead, but his mother still lives in Erankfort-on-the-Main. Deceased was, we believe, about 34 years of age, and had a large circ'o of friends. The awful suddenness of his death cast quite a gloom upon the community on Saturday evening." The Wanganui Herald, March 30, reports : —A most determined attempt at suicide was made last Wednesday by Ralph Cullinon, late of the Wairoa Rifles. He was received into hospital a short time since suffering from delirium tremens. Yesterday morning he left by the Patea coach without leave for Okehu, for the purpose of obtaining some pay due to himIn the evening he strolled towards some bush situate near Mr John Handley's and a comrado thinking he had been absent longor than necessary, went in search of him. When he found him he was bleeding, and Cullinan said that he had been trying to let some blood out, as he thought he had too much. His companion immediately obtained assistance, and Cullinan was taken to the camp. Upon examination it was found that there were over five wounds in the throat, with one in the abdomen. A penknife with which the injuries had been inflicted was found in his hand. He had torn a portion of the peritonaeum through the incision in tie abdomen. Medical assistance was immediately seut for. He is at present lying in a most precarions condition, and wo understand that Dr Earl will re-visit him this afternoon.

I It is notified m the New Zealand Gazette that George Vause, Postmaster at Kaglan, in the Province of Auckland, has been dismissed from the public service. An address, accompanied with a gold watch, has been presentend to Colonel Moule by a portion of the Armed Constabulary, on his leaving Waikato for •Oorouundel.

We take the following from the Evening P ost, 18th April;—" A fatal accident occurred this morning, at Thorndon, to one of the hard-labor gang of prisoners, named August Schroeder, the particulars of which are as follows : —An opening of consider able depth has lately b?en made in Molos-worth-street, in front of the Galatea Hotel, for the purpose of getting at a drain which was out of repair. Round this a railing was placed, a gang of men were at work in the hole; the warders, as usual, on the top watching them. One of the warders, named M'Oarthv, had his gun under his arm, the muzzle depressed, pointing towards the prisoners below, whether cocked or not does not appear very clear. Some noise behind caused M'Carthy to move when, possibly from his clothes catching the hammer, the gun went off, the contents striking Schroeder close to the heart. The unfortunate man never spoke, but, after reeling for a moment, fell against the bank. He was instantly picked up, but died in a few minutes. The body was removed to the Hospital, where an inquest was held this afternoon, the result of which we will announce to-morrow. Schroeder was a sailor belonging to the Melita, who had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for assaulting the police and misconducting himself while in a state of drunkenness. The gang was sent back to the jail immediately after the occurrence of the accident, and M'Oarthy was placed under a sor*" of temporary arrest by Mr Read, pending the result of the enquiry into the circumstances. This is not the first ac» cident that has occurred through these same firelocks carried by the prison warders, and one might well ask what business they have with guns at all." An inquest on the body of the unfortunate victim of this melancholy accident was held on the evening of the 18th, the facts elicited agreeing substantially with the particulars given above. A simple verdict of "accidental death," was returned, and the Wellington papers are indignant that the jury took no notice of the culpablt carelessness which resulted in the accident. In future, we learn, the warders are to be provided with Snider rifles, which are not to be kept loaded. The following paragraph appears in the Post of the 19th : "At the Coroner's inquest yesterday, Kling, a countryman and shipmate oi deceased, who was working close beside him when lie was killed, said that after working with the shovel some little time Schroeder raised himself up and said, ' This work will soon be over for me,' alluding to his approaching discharge. His words were prophetic, for he had scarcely spoken before the shot struck him, and he fell dead with a moan."

A dividend of £1 per share in the Long Drive was payable at Auckland on the 13th April. The Evening Post, 19uh April, contains the following:—The general public are perhaps unaware that we have among us a Mormon Mission—yet such is the fact. The scene of its labors is ac present the village of Karori, and there some four or five converts have been made. The newly converted were a few days ago received into the Brighain Young communion by the ceremony of immersion. For this purpose a hole was dug in a stream in the bush, as much out of the way as possible, into which the proselytes were duly plunged and emerged to enjoy all the blessings of polygamy and the fascinations of Salt Lake City society. It is understood that they will start at an early date for the "Promised Land" but whether (being of the sterner sex) they will provide themselves with the requisite helpmates here, or run the chance of procuring them in the New Canaan, is not yet clearly understood. If these missionaries could disseminate their doctrines among the Eauhaus, and induce a large emigration of those undesirable individuals, they would be doing good service, and might reasonably expect a subsidy from the Government. Kooti, with his strangely perverted knowledge of the Old Testament' and his belief reduced to practice in the plurality of wives, would make an oxcellent Mormon. The Provincial Government of Canterbury has been offering, since the end ol November last, " a bonus of £2OO to any whaling company that may be established in Canterbury, which shall export from 'any part of that Province 100 tuns of whale oil, being the produce of whales taken by the company in one season." We have not heard whether any endeavor is being made to earn the reward in the coming season.,

The Evening Post, 18th April, says;— • c A number of the townsfolk visited tUie ' army ' of Kemp and Topia yesterday at the upper Mount Cook barracks. The said army seemed very snugly quartered, and enjoying themselves after their peculiar fashion—lounging about the floors of the different buildings wrapped in old blankets. Most of them are strong, healthy, and serviceable men. Not to be behind their neighbors in the lower barracks, they had a sentry on the gate ; but alas! between the two sentries there was a wide distinction. The sentry down below, clean, smart, well dressed, and ' shaved* to a hair'; the one above, dirty and slovenly guiltless of hat qr boots, and his only covering a ragged blanket which enveloped his musket as well as himself. Which was the most useful we will not attempt to say." The same journal of the 20th inst. contains the following:—"The'army'of Kemp and Topia, quartered for the last day or two in Mount Cook barracks, took their departure yesterday afternoon in the St Kilda and the Storm Bird. Their chiefs were very busy for an hour or two before before starting mustering up stragglers and sending them down towards the wharf, where they seemed to be all finally gathered shortly after four o'clock. Kemp got with some trouble the crowd who were for the St Kilda on board of her, aided by his friend Kawana Pai Pai, who, when all other plans failed, got on board himself and kept a continual shout of i ßaere mai! JELaere max ! ' accompanied by dreadful contortions of countenance, which, eventually, had the desired effect, the vessol immediately getting under weigh. The Storm Bird with the remainder of the Maoris, the chiefs, and a female prisoner—wife of one of Kooti's principal men—who seemed in much distress, followed a short time afterwards. TwentyEve of the armed Constabulary under Sergeant Marshall, intended to be stationed at Patea, wont in the St Kilda." The Auckland Morning Advertiser, 14th April, says :—We have received this morning a message from our own correspondent et Cambridge, which states that Tawhiao has received an answer from Te Kooti, in which the latter aeeepts the terms offered to him, and states that he is on his road to place himself under the King's protec tions.

A man named William Parr was fined £5 and costs by the Resident Magistrate at Tiinaru a week or two ago for starving his horse to try a.id break its spirit. The Wanganui Evening Herald says : There is at the present time in the native force under the command of Kemp and fopia, one of the "loyal natives" who are to be located at their kaingas on the Waitotara block, according to the new order. The name of this loyal native is Kereopa. He was a prisoner in the Wereroa redoubt, was released, and went over to the enemy. Afterwards, when the cavalry attacked Tauranga-ika, he distinguished himself by coming over the palisades and taking the saddle off Trooper Wright's horse. He has frequently boasted that he killed Sergeant Menzies at Papa tupu, and cut off his leg. When at Taupo, he showed, with a glow of savage pride, the rifle he had taken from his victim. This is one of the " loyal natives " that are to be allowed to settle down in their kaingas. We gather from the Evening Star that another awfully sudden death took place at Auckland on the 14th inst, the deceased being William Hammond, a native of Durham, about 57 years of age. He lodged near Evison's Caledonian Hotel, Symonds-street, and was wont to do odd jobs for the landlord now and again, and sometimes would sleep in the stable. He was so employed on the 13th, and retired to the stable late. Early next day he was found dead on some straw. He was a man of good general robust health, and. formerly a soldier iu the 65th Regt. j since the departure of the regiment he has been laboring in various ways to gain a living. A medical man was sent for, but his services were useless. We extract the following item from the Otago Daily Times of the 15th inst. r—"The Hon. Mr Fox arrived by the Aire-! dale yesterday. He was met at Port Chalmers by his Jlonor Mr Justice Ward, and atDunedin by his Honor the Superintendent and several other gentlemen. We; understand that a requisition will shortly be addressed to the Hon. the Premier, requesting him to address the electors of the city on the political events of the day, and we have reason to believe that it will be readily complied with."

The Nelson Examiner, 9th April coatains the following respecting the death, of ad old settler:—Death is fast thinning the number of settlers who formed the pioneer body to Nelson in 1845, and this week has witnessed the departure of a very worthy and highly-respected member of that body, Mr John Nixon, at the ripe age of 80, and who therefore must hate been 52 years of age when he landed here, upwards of 28 years ago, from the Lord Auckland —one of the three emigrant shipswhich first left England for Nelson. Mr STixon had scarce a day's illness in his long life until the natural frame wore itself out, and to within a short period of his death he was tolerably active, his erect and venerable figure rendering him always conspicuous. He will live long in the memories of those who knew him, as an upright, worthy man. The Nelson Examiner, 9th April, givea the following :—-On Wednesday evening, about a quarter past seven o'clock, Mr W. G-. Bell, of Waiinea East, passed through the toll gate on his way home, sitting in a cart laden with bags of coal. The tollkeeper, Mr Cockram, perceived he was in iiquor, and, after watching him for about twenty yards, remarked to a man who was in the toll house that he hoped the man in the cart would get home safely. About ten minutes afterwards, Mr Gardener, of Stoke, called at the toll-house to say a man was lying on the road about fifty yards distant, and the three men went at once to the spot, and from his appearance they thought Mr Bell was dead. On one of the men making a remark to this effect, Bell said "O, no." They then carried him to ',he toll-house, and urged that a doctor should be sent for, but he objected to this, saying he was only shaken and would soon recover. After lying on the sofa for something more than hour, he exclaimed " Lord Jesus," but then becoming quiet, it was thought he had gone to sleep. Some time after this, on going to look at him» Mr Cockram found the unfortunate man was dying, and before medical assistance could be obtained from the Hospital, half-a-mile distant, life was extinct. Dr Farrelie, the Hospital Surgeon, who made a post mortem examination of the body, said that death did not proceed from a fall from the cart, but from alcohol acting on a weakened heart, rendering it unable to work so as to carry on circulation. The jury gave a verdict, that the deceased had met his death from fatal syncope, caused by excessive drinking. From the Evening Post we learn that it is in contemplation to request his Honor the Deputy-Superintendent to convene a public meeting at an early date, for the purpose of adopting the best means for securing steam communication between San Francisco and Melbourne, touching at Wellington both ways. The Oamaru Times of the 25th ultimo states that a pair of starlings are building their nests behind the signboard of their office.

The Evening Post, April 18, says:—A man working at Mr Hirst's tannery at Kaiwara started away on Thursday morning on a visit to Ohariu by some short track through the bush, intending to return the same evening. Not returning when he was expected, his wife, who knew that he was near-sighted, became alarmed, and got some of the neighbors to assist in looking for him. It was soon ascertained that he had never reached his destination, and of course it was concluded that he was lost in the bush. Search was at once instituted in various places, and kept up until late on Saturday evening, when he was discovered in a very exhausted condition, having, as was lost his way, and been wandering about without knowing where he was going. When found he had just emerged from the bush and got on to a track leading to Ngahauranga. The Wanganui Herald, of the 13th instant contains an article on the allengrossing subject discussed on the West Coast at present—the return of the Waitotara natives to their old locations —the terse vigorous style of which forcibly reminds us of an old friend. The article, we believe, expresses the views of the West Coast settlers almost to a man. They are determined at whatever hazard to stick to their bargain with the Government that not a single Maori was to be allowed again, to settle among them j and the Government would do well to pause before, by relaxing their regulations in reference to maintaining the frontier, they evoke hos* tility where they could otherwise command, unanimous support.—Evening Post.