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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 55, 6 March 1868, Page 3

We clip the followiug from the Melbourne Age respecting a late resideufc of Nelson aud. Westport:-Edwiu Gough. late of Westport, New Zealand, now of Melbourue, oufc of buainess. Causes of iueolvency : — Losses in busiuess. Liabilities, £96 ; assets, £2 lOs. ; deficiency, £93 10s. Mr. Courtney, olHcial assignee. The Evening Post states that the action brought by Messrs Ivennard Brothers, to recover £7,000 iu connection with the Queen's Wharf contract, was to come on for hearing iu the Supreme Court, before a special jury, oo Thursday (yesterday). Mr Borlase appears ou behalf of the Provincial Government, and Mr Travers on the part of the contractors. It adds that some £12,000 is to be wou or lost by the transaction. The Westport Times of Weduesday last states thafc information had reached that place from up the Buller of the discovery of a dead body lying on the banks of the Matakitaki in ao advanced stage of decomposition. The body was perfectly naked, with the exception of a pair of apparently new boots. „ . From the condition •of'the body it was impossible to ascertain whether death was caused by violence or otherwise. It is supoosed to be one of two men who have beeu missing for some time from Matakitaki. B

It is stated that Mnjor Vou Tempsky has been instructed to considerably augment the number of the Constabulary Force for service on the East Coast. The Panama boat, Ruahine, advertised to sail on Sunday next, with the English Mails, will not leave Wellington until Monday, at 9. a.m. A Select Committee, appointed by the West land County Council, have agreed to an address to H.R.M. the Duke of Edinburgh, inviting him to visit Westland, which has been adopted by the Council. It is said that some moi hers in New York have grown so affectionate that they give their children clilorform previous to whipping them.