The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 123, 27 May 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1870.

Mb. H. J. L. Augarde quotes Pioneer shares £6 paid, at £8. One quarter-share Lucky Hit, £5 paid, at £7 10s. Business done this day. The Airedale, which sailed from here on Saturday last, reported on her arrival at Wellington having seen a number of whales at the entrance of Tory Channel, and eight boats being out in pursuit. Patent Slip Company. — A meeting of the directors of this Company was held at the Masonic Hotel last nightj when a further adjournment took place until Tuesday evening, in order to give time to some gentlemen who had a plan to submit of a graving dock instead of a Slip, to place their proposal in detail before the Directors. Crushing Machine for Wangapeka. — By the Gothenburg, from Melbourne, there arrived this morning, to the order of I Messrs E. Buxton & Co., a small twostamper battery which will immediately be taken up to, and erected in, Nuggetty Creek, Wangapeka. We may therefore hope to hear soon of the stone iv that district receiviug a fair trial. Marlborugh Goldfields. — la noticiug the gold discovery in the Wairau, the Wellington Post says that " the quantity brought into Blenheim was described to us by a gentleman in whose veracity we I have complete reliance, and who saw it, as being as much as he could hold in both his hands, possibly five or six pounds weight." If ever we have a small parcel of gold to dispose of, we. should like this veracious and reliable gentleman to be-' come the purchaser.

The Manawatu. — A telegram in the Wellington Post states that there has been another obstruction of the survey at Manawatu. A native, named Hopa, destroyed all the pegs along five miles of traverse, three of them being pulled up in the presence of the Proviucial Surveyor. Ngawhaka, a native who lives opposite Mr. Fox's station, then removed the survey camp across the Rangitikei River.

An Affray with the Natives. — The Taranaki " Herald says that on Monday last some little excitement was caused by a few natives trying to rescue from the authorities one of their number, who had been arrested for stealing a shawl from a shop. On the man being handed over to the police, his mates commenced a great disturbance, vowing vengance against the whole community. Eventually the thief was locked up and taken before the magistrates, when he acknowledged to having taken the shawl, and was sentenced according to the "Resident Magistrate's Act" to pay four Jimes the value of the goods stolen, or to be imprisoned for one mouth. The fine was immediately paid and the prisoner liberated.

The absence of two native witnesses against a man, named Cochrane, charged with arson, and whose trial was to have taken place at Napier on the Ilth instant, before his Honor Justice Johnston, gave rise to tbe following remarks from his Honor : — This is the most disgraceful case that bas ever come under my notice. I believe if such a thing were to happen in the old country, and the police showed themselves incompetent to act, a roar of indignation would be heard from one end of the couutry to the other. This is practically an admission that two half-savage people cau set all our machiuery at defiance. This cannot be accident ; they must have been bought off, otherwise curiosity, if uothing else, would have brought them there. If so, it is a most dangerous precedent.