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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 55, 7 March 1867, Page 2

The Lyttelton Times of the 26th ult. says : — Yesterday 100 bales of wool and two half-bales were offered for sale at auction, in various lots, by Mr. G-. D. Lockhart, at the railway warehouses. Four bales of ewes' wool in the grease realised 10|d. per lb. ; four bales of greasy, 'half hoggett and half ewes, fetched lOd. nperlb.; a number of bales of wether aud hoggett, greasy, were bought in at lo|d. per lb., and some washed wool was bought in at Yllo.

Only eighty yards, or thereabouts, now remains to be driven in the Canterbury tunnel. The Christchurch Mail says that the operations of the workers on the one side can be distinctly heard by the men employed on the opposite side. The rock on the Heathcote side is of a very hard nature, and gives more trouble than formerly.

The Lake Wakatip Mail says that great excitement has been felt at Queenstown, Otago, owing to a couple of diggers having quietly come into town and chartered a steamer to take them to the head of the lake, where, it would appear, they have fallen on some splendid ground yielding fine nuggety gold.

The recent skirmishes at Taurangaseem _o have had a most disastrous and depressing effect upon the natives in that, district. The Piriakaus have fled to the Thames, but theNgatihaua and the King's people say that they will render them no assistance. The Uriweras, who lost so many men at Orakau, have held a large runanga, at which they came to the determination that as they had always lost men -when fighting away from their own territory, they would remain at home, and fight only if attacked at their own settlements. Altogether the Piriakau have met with the cold shoulder from all the tribes to which they have applied for assistance. — New Zealand Herald, 28th February.

At the close of the Compensation Court, says the Southern Cross, Government will find that they have but a small portion of the Waikato 'for sale other than swamps, for the other day Wireme Patene (William Barton) was awarded 25,000 acres, and new claims are continually cropping up. Only on Saturday last, the Roman -Catholic Bishop put in a claim for the 'best part of Ngaruawahi. Tbe Wellington Evening Post says >the Waka Maori, which in times past was widely circulated amongst the native race until its publication was suspended, is _bout to be revived.

Mr. Marshall's house, Petane Valley, Hawke's Bay, has been wholly destroyed •by _re, the inmates just having time to -escape with nothing hut what they stood up in. t Dr. Cowan, for many years practising as a surgeon in Auckland, expired at his _es_tence on Monday, the 25th ult.