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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 197, 22 August 1870, Page 2

English Mail. — The next outward mail via Suez will be despatched from the Nelson Postoffice by the Claud Hamilton on Thursday next. For details, we refer our readers to the official notice which appears elsewhere. The Rev. W. D. R. Lewis has been offered and has accepted the charge of a large district in the North Island. He has therefore tendered his resignation of Westport to the Bishop of the Diocese. Resident Magistrate's Court. — John Brymer and James M'Lean were charged with being drunk yesterday morning, and bathing in the sea close to the Haven-road. On the first charge they were fined 10s. each and costs, and on the second £1 each. The Clyde Roguery. — From a Wellington paper we learn that Renuie, who was arrested on suspicion of having been j concerned in the late robbery, has confessed that his 'shipmate, Malcolm Macdenuon, now a policeman, was connected with the affair. He found the false key for the outer door, and kept watch while the theft was being committed. Both arrived at Dunedin from horae in 1869. Perseverance Company.— A correspondent writing on the results of the last two crushings by this company, suggests i that the difference may be accounted for by the presence of a larger quantity of mundic and gold-bearing pyrites in the stone last put through than in that crushed on the previous occasion, and says that it is a well-known fact that the ordinary mode of separating the gold from the matrix will not extract it from pyrites orinuudic. He, therefore, recommends that a few tons of the tailings should be sent to the Clunes Compauy's works, for the purpose of having them fairly tested and, if it is found that they do contain much gold, that additional and more suitable machinery should j be imported. Winter Evening Entertainments. — The fourth of the series is to take place at the Assembly Room, to-morrow eveuinor } when Mr. Justice RicLmond, and the Rev. G. H. Johnstone have kindly con-i sented to give readings. We have not; yet heard what the Judge has decided upon reading, but we hear that Mr. Johnstone intends to give the Ball scene at Rochester, from "Pickwick." The remainder of the evening will be devoted to instrumental music by the Harmonic Society's Baud, choruses by the Christ j Church choir, songs, glees, and recitations. We are requested to remind those who are to take part in the musical portion of the entertainment, that there will be a practice at the Harmonic Hall, this evening, at 7 o'clock. The Wangapeka. — We learn from! Mr. Bain, who has just returned from the Wangapeka, where he has been laying out a line of tramway for the Culliford Company, that the roads are in a most frightful state, in many places being impassable. Ail efforts to transport the small twostamper battery to its intended site have proved unavailing, and the machinery now lies at the end of the bush wailing for five weather and harder roads. The Culliford Company are engaged in making a tunnel which already extends for nearly 100 feet, aud has yet to be driven another 60 feet before it is expected to strike the reef. Hyde and party have executed a long drive of 320 feet, in the course of which they struck a reef which was not considered payable, but they have not yet succeeded in coming across the reef they expected to fiad, and a similar want of success has attended the efforts of Baigent and party who have driven from the other side of the spur, until the two tunnels now very nearly meet. They have consequently come to the conclusion that the reef has dipped more suddenly than they anticipated, and that they are at present over it. Batchelor's and the Donkey reef have been abandoned by the original holders in favor of Doran's, but a lease of the ground has been applied for by a Nelson Company. Until the roads are placed in something like passable order there is no

possibility of conveying any heavy machinery on to the ground, it is to be hoped, therefore, that the weather may soon improve, in order that the road making may be proceeded with with as little delay as possible.