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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 20, 24 January 1867, Page 3

Lieutenant Dent, R.N., H.M. s. Salamander, left for England in the ship Siam on the 10th. On Sunday, December 30, the Church of Holy Trinity at Otahuhu was consecrated by his Lordship the Bishop of New Zealand, assisted by Bishop Patteson and the Rev. F. Gould. Mr. W. Morrin, who returned to Auckland via Panama in the Kaikoura, brought with him several pairs of starlings, thrushes, blackbirds, and partridges ; also a pair of hares. Renewed efforts are about to be made in Auckland to acclimatise useful birds and animals. In a private letter from Port Albert, addressed to us, (D. S. Cross) we find the following, which we would commend to the attention of the police : — F. Plummer, who escaped from Mount Eden Gaol, is in this district, he having called at several of the settlers' houses. I would only say that the settlers generally would be glad to hear of his removal. A correspondent of a Taranaki paper writes: — I returned to Wanganui in a pouring rain, and on coming down the West Coast again saw numerous Maoris dressed in splendid glaring colored clothes, elaborate jewellery, and in many cases disguised in liquor. This, added to the fact that I saw several bran New Bank of New Zealand £10 and £5 notes knocking about, looks very much as if they were carrying out the old saying, ' light come light go,' and were knocking down their money. It would seem from the following, extracted from the Argus of the 27th ultimo, that the remedy for a snake bite is very simple, if the story is true— On Saturday afternoon a cat, belonging to Mr. Elvin, schoolmaster, Ranter's Gully, had a battle with a black snake, and killed it ; but in the encounter received a bite, and after the lapse of an hour showed every sign of dying. Mr. Elvin observing the symptoms, placed the cat in a bucket of water, the adoption of which means resulted in the animals recovery, and it is now indulging in sts usual frolics. He was led to adopt the cold-water cure from having read of a dog recovering from a snake bite by being | thrown into a dam of water.