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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 82, 7 April 1868, Page 2

Mr Gledhill, of Taranaki, has ordered from England a blanket loom, with the object of giving employment to a new kind of labor, and opening a trade that has not been tried in the colony. Conroy, a squatter, his wife, a man named Smith, and two elderly shepherds, were murdered on the 20th March by a shepherd, ticket-of-leave man, named Munday or Collins. A row took place about wages; during the night he stabbed with shears and axed Smith. The others, hearing tbe noise, went to the place in their night clothes, when they were successively stabbed and. axed. The murderer has been arrested and confesses to the murder. The bodies were found prepared in a pile, with mattrasses and bedclothes, ready to be burnt, and tbe prisoner stated such to have been his intention. The report that a Yankee has invented a machine to take the noise out of thunder, is contradicted. Jones never knew a more vengeful individual than Brown, who in the exuberance of bis rage at some one who offended him said, ' I'll have revenge ! By Jove I'll give hid little boy a tin trumpet.' Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defect, and never fails to make us be taken notice of, either as wanting sense or as wanting sincerity. Lawyers not unfrequently come to ride in their own carriages from the clever way in which they have managed the conveyances of their clients.