EXPORTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume v, Issue 180, 3 August 1870, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Lyttelton for West Coast : 6S bags flour, 19 trunks, 14 cases sundries, 6 barrels rum, 10 cases stout, 1 truss, 2 pkgs, 2') cases hams and bacon, 2 cases iron, 50 grindstones, 4 bales chaff, 18 kegs nails, Edwards & Co.; 60 kegs butter, 9 cases hams and bacon, 2 bales leather, 3 casks eggs, 10 cases cheese, Cawthron ; 2 bales 2 trusses leather, Lightband ; 1 perambulator, H. Hounsell ; 25 pigs, Bell ; 1 parcel, H. Edwards ; 2 cases stationery, Union Bank ; 3 trusses, 3 cases, 2 bales drapery, R. Levien; 1 bag hams, 1 box fowls, 16 cases eggs, 1 box sausages, 2 kegs butter, Harling ; 500 bricks, Thompson & Stavert; 1 roll leather, Sedgwick & Gouland.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED. Wellington. — August 3 : Airedale, from Lyttelton, at 10.50 a.m. BAILED. Westport.— August 3: Kennedy, for Nelson, at 2.15 p.m.

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT. [by elkctkic telegkaph.! Nelson.— Calm; blue sky. Bar. 29-70. Ther. 50. Westport — Wind N.E, light breeze; overcast. Bar good. Bar. 30 75. Gkeymouth. — Wind N.E., light ; blue sky. Bar good. Bar. 29'95. Hokitika. — Wind S.W., light ; blue sky. Bar good. Ba.. 29-48. Ther. 39. Napier. — Calm; overcast. Sea, slight swell. Bar 29-62. Ther. 50. Wellington. — Calm; blue sky. Bar. 2985. Ther. 50. Wanganui. — WindN.W., light; blue sky. Blenheim. — Wind N., light breeze, blue sky. Kivers low. Bar. 29-63. Ther. 48. Lyttelton. — Calm; blue sky. Bar. 29-66. Ther. 42 CHRisTCHtmcH. — Wind S.W,, light; foggy. Bar. 29 67. Ther. 50. Timaru. — Calm; overcast. Sea, slight swell. Bar. 2964. Ther. 51. Bealet. — Calm; blue sky. Rivers low. Dunedin. — Calm ; overcast. Bar. 29-46. Ther. 48. Poet Chalmers. — Calm ; rain. Bar. 29-45. Ther. 44. Queenstown. — Wind S.E., light; blue sky. Bluff. — Calm ; overcast. Bar. 2919. N.B.— All the observations are taken at 9 a.m.

POST-OFFICE NOTICES. j MAILS CLOSE. The next Home Mail via San Francisco will leave Nelson to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon by the s.s. Airedale. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

The following report, in reference to a man supposed to be devoured by pigs, has heen forwarded by constable Purcell to Mr. Buller : — " Sir — In aceordance with your instructions of the 13th, I proceeded to Whitiauga Pa, Oroua, in company with Dr. Smith and Mr. J. W. Liddell. The natives there informed me that a European named John , and a native named Timihua, on the 15th June, went to the Oroua bush pig hunting j the native returned to the pah three days afterwards, leaving his companion in the bush exhausted. On hearing this, about thirty of the natives went in search of the missing man, in company with Tiaaihua, but could find no trace of him. They went on two other occasions and were unsuccessful. They found the missing man's dog, which died a short time after finding him. I am of opinion that he must have perished in the bush shortly after he had left him, as he had no matches to light a fire. The bush abounds with pigs, and I believe that they have destroyed the body ; the settlers around Palmerston are of the same opinion." Jones (who had just stood a bottle of the finest brand of champagne) : " Well, old fellow ! how do you like it ? That's something you can't always get in the North." Sandy (up for the cattle show) : " Verra true, Mister Jones, verra true — it's the best ginger-beer I ever tasted." Jones faints. '*& When a new opinion or doctrine comes before you, do not bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone j and do not be sure that the gingerbread is good because of the gilt on it.