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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 234, 4 October 1870, Page 2

The plant of the Timaru Landing and Shipping Company was sold by auction lately, and realised £975. Captain Cain was the purchaser. Vincent the colored man who escaped from custody at Hokitika, has been captured. After being nearly starved in the bush, he returned into town, and visited some old acquaintances, but they raised a hue and cry, and in escaping from them, he ran into the arms of a policeman. At Manuka Creek, Otago, a payable drift cement has been opened within the past year. In other instances, gold has been found io surface clay, shallow, aud where least expected, by those who had not mined in many lands and districts. Auckland has been visited by a fearful hailstorm. It subsided as quickly as it began, but many parts were covered with cartloads of hailstones the next morniug. It was, while it lasted, the most violent storm of the kind ever seen by 20 years' settlers in New Zealand. The Camaru Times has recently complained of several acts of wanton mischief committed in the district — such as the destruction of fences, the smash iug of windows of untenanted houses, &c. ; but a few days ago a more mischievous piece of mischief still was perpetrated in th« burning of some 400 acres of flax on the Cape,, the produce of which would heve realised at the flax-mills of the district about £2000. The man — we beg pardon, the word is a misnomer — the creature who could perpetrate such a shameful trick must be either an idiot or a villain. A New Invention, intended for the comfort of moustachioed individuals, has been invented in the shape of a novel coffee-cup, A Melbourne contemporary, referring to it, says : — " The moustache coffee-cup well deserves the notice of persons given to those hirsute appendages. On one side of the interior of the cup is a porcelain bar, which prevents the moustache touching the liquid, while a semicircular aperture between the bar and the drinking vessel allows the coffee to be sipped conveniently."