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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 160, 8 September 1866, Page 2

A supplement to the Provincial Government Gazette of the 3rd instant, contains the following proclamation, altering and extending the boundaries of the Nelson S.W. Goldfiehls :_ Now therefore I, Alfred Saunders, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested, and enabling me in this behalf, clo hereby proclaim and declare that all that Block of Land Reserved for a Public Quay, situate on the north bank of the Eiver Buller, and forming part of the Township of Westport, shall be added to aud form part of tbe " Nelson South-west Gold-fields," from and after this date. A rQbbery took place a few days ago, on the premises of Mr. T. Askew, Westport. It appears that Mr. Askew has a large store there, a portion of which is let to lodgers. lie sleeps in an upper room, aud was in the habit of placing his cashbox under the bed. A day or two ago he observed a lodger going away rather early in the morning, with his blankets tied up, and thinking of the cashbox, called on him to stop while he searched to see that it was safe. The man said he was only going to hang his blankets out to dry, and thus threw Mr. Askew off his guard. It was only the work of a minute to discover that three rolls of notes, of £100 each, had been abstracted. On overtaking and searching the lodger in question nothing was found upon him, but he had ample opportunity to secrete the money. He is in custody, charged with the robbery. The monthly meeting of the Provincial Land and Building Society, Permanent, will take place on Monday evening next. The Maungatapu Search Committee invite tenders for a stone monument to be erected over the graves of the five men who were murdered on the mountain,

The Nelson Board of Works want a person qualified to act as Inspector of Nuisances aud to collect rates ; salary £100 per annum. A schoolmaster is wanted for the village of Motueka, salary £120 per annum, including extras, house, and three acres of land, rent free. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning John Wilson was fined 10s. and costs for allowing a horse to be at large. Serjeant-Majar Shallcrass, who has been absent for some days on the West Coast, leturned to Nelson yesterday by the Kennedy. The object of his trip was to obtain information in reference to the criminals whose trials will take place next week. The latest accounts from Wauganui state that General Chute was engaged in a tour of inspection. He had visited the military posts of Waigingora, Mauawapou, and Kakaramea. The troops were departing rapidly from the district to the great disgust of the inhabitants. An agreeable change has taken place in the weather during the last few hours. Refreshing showers have fallen to the great delight of farmers and gardeners, who were beginning to complain of the dryness of the season. Captain Hagley has been transferred from the Claud Hamilton to the Lord Ashley, and Captain Ponsonby appointed to the former ship. Captain Ponsonby of the' Lord Ashley, discovered a reef on the West Coast of the Middle Island, on his last voyage. He took the bearings from Rock Point, aud found it bore N. by W. W. from there, distant about 12 miies, and seven miles from the nearest point of land. The break must be on a reef with 12 to 14 feet of water on it, very much resembling the Ariel Rocks. Captain Ponsonby had made 22 trips and not observed the break before. The Captain has received the thanks of the people of Port Chalmers for conveying a sick man named Elliott from Okarita to the port. The man was broken down, but has since recovered. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce is just now receiving a storm of disapprobation from the colonial press, for suggesting the following resolution : — " That all letters of an insolvent arriving during the winding up of his estate, should be taken by the inspector or sequestrator and opened, aud those connected with business retained." This objectionable recommendation was passed by the chamber at its annual meeting, held oa the 23rd of last month, by a majority of 10 to six. j Mr. Balfour has been appointed Marine Engineer of the colony. The W. C. Times has administered a severe rebuke to the Hokitika correspondent ofthe Canterbury Press, whom ifc assumes to be the clerk to the commissioner. It complains ] that Government officers should be allowed to indulge their petty venom against the public, out of the proceeds of whose taxation they are paid. A correspondent of the G. R. Argus, writing from the Arnold, August 28th, gives an account of tunnelling operations carried on by parties working from Liverpool Gully on the one side and New River on the other. Several shafts are sunk. The lead runs north and south. Tunnels are made in the face of the rock below the wash dirt, which is then driven out and carried in barrows to the face of the bank, thrown down and washed in the creek. The banks of the creek. are, in some places, from 60 to 70 feet high. There is a rush to the place. Provisions are brought by the New River in canoes. At Liverpool Gully eight men have constructed a race 2\ miles long in seven weeks. The race includes three flumes, one of which is 400 feet long and the other two betweea 50 and 60 feet each. A greater portion of the cutting has been through the bed rock five feet deep, and in some instances the depth through soil and rock has been 25 feet. The supply of water is not abundant. The report of the Postal Committee was brought forward in the House of Representatives, acd ordered to be printed, It recommends that the postage on all colonial newspapers despatched via Panama ov Marseilles, irrespective of size, should he 3d. each, aud , on all newspapers sent from one province to \

another ld. each. It further recommends the introduction of a penny stamp on all J lettters of half an ounce weight, posted and delivered in the same place, and suggests that the postage on letters sent from one province to another should be 3d. per half ounce. Finally the committee recommend that the system of franking be abolished, and conclude by saying that if the report was adopted a saving of at least £15,000 a year will be effected. Reciprocation of compliments being the order of the day, the Southern Cross, not to be behind hand, says : — We have to acknowledge the compliment paid to us by the Taranaki News of the 23rd, which reprinted our article of the 16th on the Budget, in its editorial column, in lieu of au original article on the same subject. By a resolution of the House of Representatives, all volunteers holding a certificate of efficiency are exempted from serving on juries. Local mails from New Zealand and the Australian Colonies for North America aud California, will, by arrangement with the , British Post-office, for the future be made I up on board the Panama steamer when on the voyage to the Isthmus. An anonymous advertisement (says the Lyttelton Times) appears in the Canterbury journals to the effect, that owing to the high price of stock, an advance will be made in the price of all kinds of meat — beef for instance is for the future to be Is. per lb. If this state of things is to continue, the fond illusion that New Zealand is a land of plenty, will soon be dispelled. It is something new, or at all events rare, (says the Lyttelton Times) to meet with a downright beggar in Christchurch. Lately, however, we have heard several times of a fellow with debauchery and drunkenness written plainly on his face, who waylays solitary passengers iv quiet places, generally about the dusk of the evening, soliciting assistance. Ho invariably attracts attention by addressing those from whom he expects to get something with '-Master, Master, I say Master!" uttered in a whining tone. We recommend this worthy to the notice of the police. The whole of the second battalion 14fch regiment nre under orders to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Otahuhu, prior to their departure for Australia. Similar orders have been issued to a detachment of the 50th, now quartered at Taranaki. The Wellington E. Post says :— Among our many indications of progress, we are glad to notice the introduction of steam machinery into the establishment of Mr, E. Dixon, cordial manufacturer, Cuba-street. By the aid of the new appliances, about sixty dozen of bottles of jerated water can be prepared per hour. The brig T'arra, which ran ashdre at the Wanganui Heads about a fortnight ago, has been safely got off, and is now moored alongside Messrs. Taylor and Watt's wharf Miss Rye has returned to England, after visiting Australian colonies. She read a very able paper on these colonies, before a meeting of ladies and gentlemen interested in the cause of female emigration and spoke highly of the capacity of the colonies for the ma.iuten&nce of a large population. A New Zealaud tree fern was exhibited at the last Inter nationallHorticultural Exhibition in May, at Kensington. The Field says 3^— Grand as the scene from tha mound undoubtedly is, it would have been comparatively poor were it not for thafc noble JSl'ew Zealand tree fern (Cyafchea medullaris) rearing up its thick stem and wide-spreading graceful crest, aad crowning with verdure and grace the brilliant parterre. The Sydney Empire has a well-written ar« tide on tho subject of the Panama steam ser« vice, in which it advocates thafc route in pre* ference to the Suez route, for passengers and imports. It regards the influx of American capital and enterprise to New Zealand as being proximately great at the outset, but anticipates corresponding advantages from the increased inter-colonial trade. The annual meeting of the Aborigines Protection Society was held at Hartley's

i ■!■■! i ww -__■-*•---------*■--■_»■ mi-OTn.****-^^ Hotel on May 23. The chair was occupied by Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, who commented on the New Zealand war, and protested against the ruthless proceedings of General Chute, the commander of .the colonial forces. •y* The great necessity that exists for roads to open up the auriferous country on the West Coast, and to enable the minei-s to obtain tools and provisions at a reasonable rate, is forcibly shown in the following extract from the reporter of the W. C. Times, in describing the couutry from Staffordtown to S^D^ajmn_Hill. The writer states : — ■ Prom Staffordtown to Scandinavian HiU, the distance is not more than a mile, but such a road to travel — ye gods ! How the wretched pack-horses manage to scramble through it without breaking tbeir limbs or necks is a mystery, and they present a most pitiable appearance on arriving with their loads at the hill, where, by the way there are a number of stores, of which more anon. Although the diggers and storekeepers grumble furieusly at the abomiuable track, they admit with their usual good sense that there has not been time to provide a better. Aware, however, of the known procrastination and apathy of the Government in all matters relating to the real advancement of Westland, but particularly in track-making, they shake their beards doubtingly, and fear that the Wainiea district will fare no better than the rest. Comparisons between Nelson and Canterbury — anything but favorable to tbe latter-— were drawn by parties I conversed with who had lately been working in the Nelson portion of the Grey district, and one and all were loud in their praises of that province for the liberality and enterprise it discovers in track making. One enthusiastic individual lamented that its "goodness was not rewarded by a "greater extent of auriferous country." News was reoeived at Aspinwall, onthe 28th uit., of the loss of the Hamburg brig S iri us, which recently leffc that port for Santa Martha. The first offioer and three of ths crew who reached Aspinwall iv a boat report that the vessel ran on the Eoncadora Reef and was wrecked.