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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 246, 18 October 1870, Page 2

Sutherland Gold-mining Company. —During his recent professional visit to Blenheim, Dr. Tatton,*who is well-known as a chemist and analyst in Nelson and on the West Coast, paid a visit to the reef belonging to the above company, and after examining the drive and its locality, of which he expressed a high opinion, brought away with him a number of specimens. On Saturday last, in the presence of several persons, he submitted these to the usual tests, with the following result, which our readers will doubtless consider with us is highly satisfactory :— Per ton. 1. Mixed lot of surface stone from oz. dwfc. gt different parts of reef . .17 0 2. From tunnel 19 0 3. Surface stone in centre of claim .113 0 4. From shaft (45 feet down) . .230 6. Surface stone from N.W. end of claim 2 10 — Marlborough Express. The Advertiser publishes a report that the gun-room steward of H. M. S. Challenger disappeared on the 13th ult. with £40 or £50 which did not belong to him. A Company has been formed in Oamaru to dress flax by a method discovered by Mr. R. Donaldson. The fibre is stated to be perfectly gumless, and, including all costs, can be produced for £13 per ton. A dreadful murder has been committed at Crooked River, Victoria. A miner named Seers cut his mate's head off, burned the head, an 3 buried the trunk. He has been arrested, and is believed to be insane. Freemasonry. — Recently at Isew York 40,000 Freemasons took part in the ceremony of laying the corner stone of a new hall. They formed into ten divisions. The different lodges, with their insignia and banners presented a splendid appearance and excited the admiration of the assembled multitude which lined the streets along the line of march. The procession is considered the finest display by the Masonic order ever witnessed. War Incidents. — " We were told yesterday, says the Patrie, that Marshal Macmahon — at the end of that noble struggle made by 35,000 soldiers against the 140,000 of the Crown Prince of Prussia — seeing that he was not reinforced, seeing that his ammunition had run short, and seeing that he must inevitably abandon the field of battle, so covered with our dead and with the corpses of the enemy, that the survivors shot at each other behind ramparts of the mangled bodies — we are told, we say, that the brave and illustrious conqueror of the Malakoff, of Magenta, and Solferino, in despair summoned before him the five colonels of his cavalry regiments, Girard, of the Second Lancers ; Tripard, whose name we do not know, of the Tenth of the Sixth of the same arm ; a colonel of dragoons ; De la Roche, of the eighth Cuirassiers ; and Watermann, of the Ninth — and, throwing himself into their arms, besought them to sacrifice themselves that they might save the shattered remaius of his army. God knows whether these modern Leonidases knew how to fulfil the * mandate of honor' confided to them. Elsewhere, on the day before, at Wissembourg, another colonel of cavalry, the Marquis d'Espenilles, recantly promoted to the command of the Third Regiment of Hussars, left a place in the Prince's household to take command on active service. This Colonel d'Espenilles, scarcely forty years of age, in order to afford breathing time to the beleaguered Douay Division, charged the Prussian, columns seventeen times successively with out stopping. At the seventeenth time the regiment was reduced 'to 50 horsemen, and the heroic colonel, covered with, wounds, still rode forward, sword in hand, in front of his men."