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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 131, 5 June 1868, Page 2

It will bo perceived from the Mail Notice in another column, that the Mail for Europe, via Panama, closes at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. Captain Clouston informs us that the temperature yesterday morning was two degrees lower than any which has been experienced in Nelson for the last five years, the barometer falling to 26 degrees Fahrenheit, that is, six degrees below freezing point. A Wellington telegram furnishes intelligence, which is especially important at the present moment, in relation to the Dry Dock question, — that the Consolidation Acts have received tbe Boyal Assent; and also that Mr Fitzherbert had obtained an advance of £459,000 on short-dated debentures, at 4 per cent., to pay off New Zealand Bank Securities a 7 per cent, before maturity. Eeferring to tbe distribution by lottery of the stud| owned by Judge Cheeke, the Sydney Morning Herald remarks : — The stud numbers thirty-four head (exclusive of foals, which will be given in), in addition to the celebrated three-year-old Fireworks, who is undoubtedly the best public performer that we have upon the turf, and it is proposed to dispose of the whole in £1,400 shares of £5 each. The stud includes several good public performers ; among them, Sir Patrick, an entire ; Zoe and Jessina, brood mares ; Clove, Varroviile, Sir John, Emerald, and the two-year-old Rawdon. The Daily Southern Cross of the 2nd instant states that arrangements have been made for the departure of his Excellency the Governor from Auckland, on Friday next, by H.M.s steamer Kosario, for Wellington. His Excellency will be accompanied by Captain Young, A.D.C.; and Lady Bowen, accompanied by his Excellency's Private Secretary, will proceed by the s.s. Wellington. The Southern Cross of the 2Dd instant says that the steamers Midge and Tauranga, which arrived from the Thames on the previous night, brought reports of a very encouraging nature from Tapu Creek.

Numerous rich leaders are said to have been struck, and several payable reefs discovered. The news appears to have caused considerable excitement at Shortland, and a rush is anticipated. The Right Hon. the Earl of Pembroke left Auckland last week, in the yacht Albatross for Sydney via the Kawau and Mongouui. The Southern Cross states that it has received information that the General Government officials contemplate another raid on the East Coast. If this information be correct, we may expect soon to hear of fresh disturbance in the Bay of Plenty. It would appear that a war party is about to start for the interior of the Uriwera country, the destination being a considerable distance behind Opotiki. If the expedition start, as planned, it will come into collision with men who have not hitherto been embroiled with us, and who desire to live at peace and apart from the Europeans. The Wellingtoa Independent states that the,' certificate of Captain Machin, late commander of the Kaikoura, has been returned to him by the Board of Trade, on account of some Informality committed by the Court of Inquiry held at Wellington. Last year 12,000 persons died in 120 public institutions in London, constituting about a sixth part of the total deaths of the metropolis. In other words, of every 1000 deaths in London in 1867 no less than 170 occurred in one or other of the public institutions; and of every 1000 of population in London 39^were inmates of these institutions at the time of their death. The Professor of Geology at Oxford, Mr Phillips, has started for Naples, with an intention to visit and examine Vesuvius and to test, by actual observation, certain views concerning volcanic phenomena to which he has been led. We shall probably be informed of the result some three months hence.