TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 212, 8 September 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(feom ouu own correspondent). Dunedin, Sept. 8, 11.40 a.m. McLennou's trial for the gold robbery at Clyde commenced this morning. The Grand Jury made a presentment expressing their regret at the extreme carelessness of the authorities in allowing the gold to be loJged for so long a period without sufficient security. Forty ounces of gold, including a tweuty-ouncs uuggef, have been found in the creek in the town-belt at Queeustown. The ship William Davie, 81 days, from Glasgow, arrived yesterday with 174 passengers. For remainder of News see Fourth page.

A Single man advertising for employment, a maiden lady wrote to inform him that if lie could find nothing Letter to do, lie might come and marry her. He did so and touched twenty thousand pounds. As a clergyman was performing the funeral service, a woman came and pulled him by the sleeve in the middle of it. " Sir, I must speak to you immediately." " Well, then, what is the matter ? " " Why, sir, you are going to bury a rnau who died of smallpox near my poor husband who never had it." An Exciting Adventure. — On Wednesday, July 20, Dr. Schomburgk (the Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens), with bis foreman and two men named Tyre and Leonard, formed an expedition to the hills in the neighborhood of Mount Barker, for the purpose of obtaining grass-trees, and other native productions. When about a quarter of a mile past Fordham's (says the Register). they decended from the right hand side of the road in order to get some of the trees growing in the creek. The Doctor and his foreman were in foont, aud the two men about 50 yards behind, not in a direct line. When the two former had gone a considerable distance, Tyre slipped on a stone, and losing his balance, commenced rolling down the hill towards a precipice about 25 feet deep perpendicularly overhanging the creek. Seeing his companion's danger, Leonard who is a very powerful man, with great courage and promptitude, attempted to stop him, but was knocked down, aud they then, both rolled on at a terrific pace. At about twelve or sixteen feet from the precipice Leonard grasped a shrub, thus arresting the progress of himself and Tyre, and saving them from imminent death. Dr. Schomburgk estimated that Tyre rolled about 150 feet, and the rate which he passed over the ground was very great, his body making bounds of three and four feet at a time, Fotunately no bones were broken, but the unfortunate man's face and hands were badly scratched, and he was not in a fit condition to be moved for several hours, after which time he was conveyed to town. Leonard was unhurt, and the Doctor avers that he never saw such narrow escapes from death in his life. Tremendous Storm. — The Times of India reports a terrific storm that lately occurred at Aden : — "A cloudy sky and sultry atmosphere" says the correspondent, " had prepared us for something unusual j in fact it was guessed monsoon weather was approaching. Accordingly, on the 27th iustant, the settlement was visited by a storm of unprecedented severity. At half-past three in the afternoon, a sand storm swept over the peniusula, and the sky gradually darkened until it was as dark as night. Then followed a pelting shower of rain which lasted for two hours. Till midnight there was a lull, and then the thunder re-opened the ball in right grand style. At three o'clock in the morning, the lightning became more vivid and almost constant, flash succeeding flash in rapid succession. The thunder peals were the the loudest ever heard here before by the present generation of Parsees — the oldest residents with whom I have conversed — and the rain decended in torrents. In a few minutes the thoroughfares were raging torrents, along which neither mau nor beast could move. At four o'clock a.m., the storm was at its height, and general fear pervaded the population. They trembled for their houses, built though they were upon a rock. So violent were the gusts of wiud, and such the violence of the rain, that about five hundred native houses were completely levelled, aud building scaffoldings of those under construction were hurried away like chaff. During the storm several people were struck by lightning. It has been ascertained that at least ten lives have been lost either by lightning or by the fall of houses, and a large number of cattle have been drowned or killed ; while the destruction of property has been immense. Several inmates in the European barracks were struck by lightning ; one or two soldiers were affected as if by paralysis, but none were very seriously injured. Several bayonets were struck by the lightning, and melted. The tolal quantity of rain-fall in six hours was estimated at *1\ inches.