The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 194, 2 July 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1870.

Mr. H. J. L. Augabde quotes Pefseyerance Shares at £1 s^J^iS sJferey'vSQs. paid. Business done this^ day, Publicans'- XiCENSES.TrOn Thursday last, beiDg pay-day for publicans' licenses,; there were rjeceyveji at.,the Treasury £1500 for ordinary, and £135 for bush, licenses. -' i 'RESidbBNT' MiaiSTRATE*S CbUET. «— Alexander M'Pherspn,/ charged with escaping from, the gaql.oOja Wednesday ..last, ■was this morning brought up before the Resident Magistrate, ; - and . committed for trial all the next Assizes. i \ '^'i}^ixw^ji^m^. :^r^^X^J Barkly rmade ft trip outside the Bonlderbank this -merini tig, for the purpose of : testing the [jco^lfrora thß Collitfgv*-obd mine. Thle trial, we^u-tderstand^ proved-on the whole satisfactoryV'butVfti 11 /particulars^ shiall 'appear io our next, _ r/ ~~” 7: Election; t foe ! Westland North. — We understand that : a telegram has been received from the Returning Oflacer, stating that, at the nomination this morning, Mr. Kyhtfersley^was'-the brily candidate j proposed, -and: consequentlylbat-he- has been declared duly ; elected. ' >'■ p QuARTZ-CRUSHiNG_-T-On Thursday last a atrial .crushing, of average r . stone from. No. 1 south' 'ot CdllifoV-s's 1 claim, Wangapeka (Blake and party), yielded _ at the rate of 2 qzs.' ~W dwts. the ton. The . claimhpiders, are so satisfied 5 -with the returns '^^'t,\\weVflriSerstarid,;''^ey^jdo 'not intend forming: a Company, bitt are determined to work it themselves; Concert at ,Motue_:a.— We notice that a concert in aid of the Church Fund is'to Se given 'at' Motueka' on Thursday evening next, at- which several of our Nelson musician? baye promised, tp assist. The owner' of the^Lady BarHy. ! we understand, is open, to. make arrangenaents for bringing back the Nelson visitors after the concert if a- sufgcientrnupaberef passengers! can be obtained, and as the moon will be nearly^atTirsTfuii?tireh, "almost delightful, trip n_ight-be^kpected. •-- -- c-^ Gold in 'the Motueka River.— We learn from Mr. Cr. Hai'ding*, i_ r st6fekeeper in the Motueka district, that four parties, have been foj some time engaged in, gold; figging Jpn:" 1 th&: Ws ''] a,nd ' sh'qrigs', of .Ihe \ (M^uek^r^f \ its j raouth. .Although all. these parties) b^ive ; been doing, well, one of theto consisting of three men has been' peculiarly successful, having obtained "within, the las,t.,s_yen 70 ';ozs. of --,g014. 'j :-'M T -l -^a^iug (brought over with him yestOrday about a pound* weight of this gold which'he offered i for sale at the Union Bank, but not being . satisfied with th^alueset'^QJ^ \ per ounce, he tookJjt_fe the Bank of New ; Zealand where- he* obtained l^s. T^e gold which. is ora p co^e«na^ac^er, is, as. stated above, obtained from the bars of the fiver, andconse'quently theim inerswho areiit work there have been subjected to considerable delay, owingito the '-floods- which have of late been so frequenty'*bat but of the seven weeks during which; tbe :men have been on the spotith^yhia^ nftt-been^ ;abl£; io*c>wprk more than four. The fact that gold exists in su£h quantities: in .this. riTef i_;jsufficient proof of the richness- of the district it drains, arid there can be little dbubt that much of it domes frdiri the^Waiigsipeka and Sherry rivers, whichflow into ihe Motueka some miles above where the men are at <work... ; -.Whether or, not ai payable field of any large extent exists inthatpfirt^of the /country remains yet. to, b^proyed, but tfye, fact of so much of the precious metal ba^** leg already been obtained, seems to point to the probability of ground of no ordinary richnes-.bejog discoveredin r theimraediat^ neighborhood. We should be exc!ee<li'ngly sorry to give? publication to any statements that j_»ight lead to a riisli ona large scale to any portion of the cob htry, f .that !(or ; arijr.thin.g_. we know to the contrary^ may turn out. .what, is known iii .diggers' parlanciß as * {, a duffer,"- but the facts above stated come to us from such undeniable authority that we feel we should not be doing our duty to the -public did we fail to make them known. .. We are given to understand that there is a good; road to the locality in question, and that provisions are to , be : obtained there ' at little. ; above town prices; . , -\ r .Whj^is; a baby. Jike .a. sheaf of wheat ? Because)! t is is first cradled, then thrashed, and; .finally becomes the flower of the family.-?' '."■".-'•.'• I '> ■.■'.:■ !■: J' ! "' •■■