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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 84, 10 April 1867, Page 3

A correspondent writing to the Taranaki Herald, March 9, from Manutahi, near Patea, says: — There have been queer doings going on here. The time of service of Captain Morrison's men has expired, and they are allowed to remain on or not, as they like. One night Lieutenant Hutchinson told some of the non-com-missioned officers not to kick up a row after "lights out," whereupon they commenced to sing " We'll hang Hutchinson on a sour apple tree," which they kept up for half-an-hour, when Morrison sent Hutchiusou to place them all under arrest, which had the effect of turning tbem out of their tents and making them worse than before. They got sticks and played the d l's tatoo ou the outside of Morrison's tent, and one of thern (the colorsergeant), went in to Morrison and shook his fist in his face, using the most opprobrious epithets, aud told him that if he did not release them they would all resign, which they have since done. Morrison will in a few days be the only representative of that once gallant and splendid company, No. 5 T.M.S. Hutchinson has resigned and is going away at once. A gentleman writing from Taranaki to his brother who resides in Daylesford, iu speaking of the state of affairs in that country, says : — People may talk as they like about the war beiug over, but it is not, nor ever will be until tbe Maories are exterminated. Even the social and friendly natives will not allow prospecting for Gold on their land — in fact, the place is not fit for civilised people to live in, and I should not wonder if business transactions before long are again carried on in the old style, viz., by barter. Everything is on the decline ; the petroleum wells, from which so much was expected, are a failure ; a party of men who had sunk a well six months ago refused £5,000 for half an interest, but would now be glad to take £150 for it ; aud a number of shares in another company were sold at auction a few days ago for Id. each; then again by the last advices from England we learn that the iron sand, a sample of which was sent home to be analysed, will not pay for smelting. An inquest was held at the Court-house, Taranaki, on Monday, the 18th ult. on the body of Thomas Scantling, settler, who was burnt to death in his whare at Urenui, on Saturday night, the 16th ult. The Publishers Circular says : — It is reported that Messrs. Harper and Brothers have ordered a whole shipload of white paper from Belgium. Ticker and Fields,

of Boston, have ordered 5000 reams in London. It has been estimated that at present prices good book and news paper can be delivered in New York, all duties and expenses included, at three-quarters the price of American paper of same grade. Another estimate makes the difference in favor of "foreign paper ten per cent, instead of 25 percent." It is certainly demonstrated that*.paper can be imported at cheaper rates than our paper makers are demanding. Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herafd, told us that he was importing good news paper at 15 cents per pound, whereas the American paper makers were charging 20 cents for the same quality. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Coughs, Influenza. — The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs. In common colds and influenza, the Pills taken internally, and the Ointment rubbed over the chest and throat, are exceedingly efficacious. When influenza is epidemic, this treatment is easiest, salest, and surest. Holloways Pills purify the blood, remove all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs, relieve the over-gorged air tubes, and render respiration free, without reducing the strength, irritating the nerves, or depressing the spirits. Such are the ready means of saving suffering when anyone is afflicted with colds, coughs, bronchitis, and other chest complaints, by which so many persons are suridusly and permanently afflicted in most countries.