The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1869.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 231, 1 October 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1869.

Gold, Gold, Gold. — That distressing epidemic, the yellow fever, seems to be raging in Nelson just now. '-iold and rumors of gold are the talk of .the, place ; we hear of- startliug discoveries bein« made in the Moutere, and before the rapturous fife of delight' into which we are thrown by the glorious news has had time to subside,, we are again staggered with the information that a most promising field,. within bicycle distance of the Trasfalgar Hotel, has been discovered on the Port Hills. Hunting- up -information on the subject is very similar to playing the , old game sof5 of "Magic Music." : First ; ther.o is a; gp n ! U, rip pi ing rum or ju s t ; :^sfjfficieritr to excite your curiosity; you : : i .follow it *up~gradu;il!y the reports grow ';. fkJuder and.more authoritative, and you v ; : are"conTinceii that at last you are on the ; rightvscent,^when of : a sudden all your .'^^ojiefii^ai^e^iiasiied^tb ihe ground hy that ;.^/mp^j^iitalisipg,^unpati^cto^ and discolor has been /^found;';'.^ ! was the that issued from our lip 3 -It^ftricoV^^ifviiines to-day. W^M^-^M^' — James BrowD, charged at |^M^^^|out Magistrate's Court 10-day, l||oJ)||3B»i|(l; guilty of^wandering about |gpjl|^u(||;any lawful, means of support, to^gaol for two month?.

] Manuka.— ? The following concise -andintelligible account of Manuka's performances appeared in a Canterbury paper ; "Manuka is a remarkable hors* 3 . He won a fast race over a slow course. He only appeared i>i public once, and ran against the same horses on each occasion." He is a remarkable horse. Suicide of Gxe of the Maori Prisoners. — A telegram which appeared iv this morning's Colonist states that Wi Tamararo, who had been ' .lou'victeJ. of treason, strangled himself with his belt iv gaol yesterday, on learning that thorn was no chance of a reprieve. Embkzzlement by a Govgrnmknt Officer. — David M"Kay, the Emigration Officer at Canterbury, lifts been brought before the Resident Magistrate at Christchurch charged with embezzlement, and was remanded for » werk. Steamer Tatuxaki. — The value of the different woods used in ship-building has been thoroughly tested in the case of the Taranaki. An nccident having at oijo time occurred to the wheel, which was originally made of teak, the fracture was repaired by inserting a piece of New Z-aland timber. This, a!thon»h varnished like the rest of the wheel, has completely disappeared, while the teak is as sound as .ever it was. The same thing has been noticed in the rail, where a similar repair had been made. The deck, which was composed of Baltic pine, is completely honeycombed by worms, and is not safe to stand upon. The great Dr. Carr lias, it seems, been getting himself into trouble at Wanganui. He was sued in the Resident Magistrate's Court, there, on the 21st instant, by Mr. John Anderson, fur breach of contract, having undertaken to cure plaiutiff in one week of the disease of sciatica, which he had utterly failed to do. The claim was for £11 55., fees paid to the doctor, and £8 15s. for loss of time. It appealed from the plaintiff's evidence that defendant had put a selon in plaintiff's back, and performed two operations, which put him to great pain, and kept him from Isis work for three weeks, without doing him any good. Dr. Cair, in defence, said he was a surgeon, i-iul a M.R.0.5., though not regisfeivd under the New Zealand Act. He denied having male au agreement with plaintiff to cure him iv a specific time, but contended that his treatment was proper, and that plaintiff had derived benefit from it, :>s he had confessed to several parties. The Beuch, after retiring for a short time, gave judgment for plaiutiff, for £11 55., with £3 6s. costs. Thames Goldfield and Auckland. — Mr. Carleton, the well known member of the House of Representatives, thus writes to the leadiug journal iv Auckland: — It is in no spirit of vaiu braggadocio that I write these words. No oue from the North Cape to Stewart's Island, can any longer pretend to doubt of the future that lies before us. Great, comparatively, as is the work already done at the Thames, it is as nothing compared with what remains to be eff -(-ted. We are operating upon one end only of a gold-bearing range, which, in the opinion of the most reliable authorities, extends to Taupo. Flax, which baffled us by its intractability for some five-and-twenty ye.-.rp, has suddenly become an article of export to w.iich no reasonable limits can be assigned. No one is out of employment ; no one, at least, that has the courage to work ; the very children dressing flax, are a support to the household, instead of being a bur"den upon it. That population (I allude more especially to the Waikato immigrants), which four years ago' was an incumbnmee to the province and a miseryto the Provincial Government, urging claims for relief which the Government could not but acknowledge, but had not the means to meet,— now uncomplaining, and a source of substantial strength. Whereas a short twelve months ago every third house in tlie town and suburbs of Aucklaud was unoccupied, house room is now to seek ; while the fees on writs, which. then were averaging from £20 to £90 a week, have dwindled down to some two or three. The only people, out of work are the bailiffs of the Sheriff's Court, whose livelihood is gone. God Bi/ess the Duke of Argyll ! — Among the telegrams published in the papers lately we find one, from the North, to : the effect that *, the Laird was.scratched at 1Q.15" on that mornings and conee.quently diffrnot come to the post?' .. To wh ich member of the ; Scottish _hobi!ity does ,/tkis- iuterestiug^ r:>'. ;■*(/'■ V*v. •,'■..■'■'■.'' •"•' '', vv'; ; ■• '. ''■""•'.'- '"'..■■ 7 : "■''•.';*•'

The Late County Defalcations, at Hokitika. — -His Honor Mr Justice Richmond, in passing sentence upou George Wintpr, late County Treasurer of Westlaud, said : — Yours is a case, one of a class, iv which no Judge ran jtrocoeil to pass seuteuce without n feeling of acute pain. It is a pain, however, which is, in your instance tempered by indignation.. You stand there s-lf-convictcfl of having abused the highest pecuniary trust in the place. Yon have brought shame not only upon yourself and yours, but upon the official class to which you have belonged ; upon ihe social circle in which you moved. Not only this but you have shaken that coufidence which should exist between governed and those that govern ; you have shaken public coufi.lonce ; you haye y cast suspicion ou social respectability ; you stand there a great social scandal. I feel totally unable to yield to those pleas , that have been urged in your favor, and I ( feel bound by my sentence to mark my sense of the srravity of the offence. However while the fact of your position, your education, adds to your crime, thore is no doubt that because of that position, that education, the punishment that it will be the duty of the Court to iuflicfc will fall upon you with terrible weight. Your hnbits, iixiliiiatioiis, and tastes will make jiie discipline of a gaol doubly irksome to you, and your micd will be racked, so that the sentence, which 3'ou must feel to be severe, will be light compared with that. Without further comment I pass the sentence of the court upon you, which is that you be kept in peual servitude for the space of three years. We are glad to learu from the Wanganui papers that the tide of adversity which h;is so long been flowing over that district has turned, and prosperity a;*ain beginuing to d-r.vu upon it. The Chronicle says : — " Settlers are returning to their land 3 at Waiiotara and Patea ; it is a risk, but they are prepared to run it. Certain precautions will be adopted, and we hope these brave men, who are. so to speuk, taking their lives in their hands, will be permitted to rebuild their homesteads and enjoy the fruits of their labor. The Ngatiporoushave crossed the Wain^ongora aud takeu up a position iv advance of the Patea settlers. The Government promises to make a main line of road from Patea to Taranaki, and this will he the means of, bringing same money into the district,' and adding to its capabilities of defence. The erection of the Wanganui bridge is an important public. work, which we hope to see commenced almost immediately. It will bring people into the place and when finished must prove an immense convenience not only to the immediate locality biit to our friends as far as the Eaugitikei river." Who first introduced salt provisions into the navy? — Noah, when he took Ham into the ark.