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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 919, 17 January 1871, Page 2

A Nelson exchange says tlmt Californian quail are thriving in Nelson province, and are to \>e seen in large numbers about Waimea, East. A contemporary says that a telegram to Galle informs die Government of fciouth. Australia that the attempt to raise a loari of <£loß,ooo for that Colony latterly failed, applications for .£7,000 only having been allotted. The impending war witji Russia, js the reason of the failure,

The Nelson Mail of the 6th and 7th contains the particulars of the suicide of Mr James Hyde, of Spring Grove, by drowning in the Wairoa river. At the inquest held on the 7th, it appeared from the evidence that the deceased had for a short time before his death been in a depressed state of mind. Mrs Hyde handed in at the inquest the following letter, written in the most diminutive hand :-—" My last will and testament. I deny myself of life through misfortune, and perpetual jar and contention. —JAMES HYDE. I will go to hell, and enter the torments of my God, where I have rest for ever. —J. H." A verdict was returned that the " Deceased drowned himself while laboring under temporary insanity." A stag, supposed to have wandered from the estate of Mr Rhodes in Rangifikei, is now (says the Chronicle) running between the No. 1 and No. 2 lines. He herds with the cattle and seems acclimatised in all his solitariness. Mr J. C. Richmond and Mr Travers both arrived at Wellington by the Wallabi from Nelson on Friday last. They are to address the electors this (Tuesday) evening, A woman at Maitland ha 3 been cured of heart disease and cancer of the lip and throat by drinking a decoction from the native sarsaparilla. The medical men of the district had previously given up her case as hopeless. The Nelson Mail, 11th inst., says: — *' All our readers will know perfectly well to what we allude when we speak of the ash tree, and each one of them will be exceeding sorry to hear that the beautiful tree, which formed such an ornament to the banks of the Matai was completely smashed by the south-easterly gale of yesterday evening, when it was split into three pieces, and now presents a melancholy appearance to the numerous visitors who throughout the day have &*eu thronging to the spot to lament over the ruins. The seed from which this noble tree sprung was sown some 21 years ago by Mr Bomford, a resident in Brook-street Valley, who was present at and lost his arm in the Wairau massacre, and a few years ago it was fenced in, and seats erected under its grateful shade, by £he Bjoard of Works. The wind of last night has certainly deprived Nelson of one of its most beautiful sights.