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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 277, 24 November 1870, Page 2

In some parts of Germany every bottle containing poison is labelled with a death'shead and cross-bones as black as printer's ink can paint them. Every parcel of poisonous medicine sent to a patient has a similar label over the address. " Pray help me," writes a travelled person, "to urge upon our chemists and druggists the adoption of this very simple method, which is plainly within the comprehension of the dullest boy that ever handled a pestle and ' mortar."

NOTES FROM TEE TJVPER BULLER. o A policeman has been located on the Matakitaki ; a warden is daily expected, a mail is talked about, and a Warden's Court is to be held on the ground next month, but with all this show and appearance of progress the diggings are waniug, aud the diggers are leaving. There has been heavy continuous rain, and on the Bth inst. the Buller and its tributaries were flooded — the Matakitaki particularly co. A large undertaking on this river was seriously damaged, by the flood. A crate dam about two hundred feet long had just been successfully completed by Parish, James, and party, and they were just reaping the reward of their labor and enterprise when the flood came and made a breach, which for the present has suspended further sluicing. In reference to this party it is worthy of mention that they have cut a track close upon two and a half miles long, which is taken the whole of the way on good sound solid land, so sandy and shingly that there is little danger of its workiug up into mud. thus avoiding about three miles of some of the very worst of the notoriously bad roads on these diggings. There seems every reason to believe that most, if not all, of the bad road up the Matakitaki might be similarly avoided, there beiug beaches and dry terraces the whole way up the river, over which the road might be taken in place of the bogs and quagmires through which it now passes. In travelHug easily and quickly as one does over Parish's track, one cannot help wondering why we should ever have been doomed to work our passage, plunging aud stumbling among roots and mud at the risk of losing horses aud goods, along the Government road. Blame rests somewhere. Another work well worthy of note is the suspended flumiug across the Matakitaki at Steele's. The water from a creek on one side of the river is carried on to auriferous ground on the other side of the river. Considerable engineering skill has been exercised in the construction of this fluming which appears to answer its purpose admirably, and is of a permanent character. But a much larger undertaking of a similar nature has just been completed across the Buller below Jecklin's. The flume is carried at a height of 90 feet from tbe surface of the water, and it is suspended across a span of 160 feet with approaches supported on pole scaffolding of 150 feet. This work is well worthy of some substantial recognition and we sincerely hope the constructors of it will find their reward. This party talk of erecting a horse bridge across the Buller if they can get protection from the Government. This work would be a great boon to the district. We also hear talk of a bridge for crossing horses and cattle over the Buller at the Lyell, some Grey people having this work in contemplation as a private enterprise if they can get protection. This leads me naturally enough to the subject of the Inaugahua reefs which appear to be not only the richest yet discovered in Nelson, but the soonest to be developed and worked, over 300 men being now on the spot. Gold has been struck in three different places, machinery is already on the ground, and will be crushing in three weeks or less. Christy's is quite a scene of stir and bustle, and money is changing hands freely, all the men having means. A tramway ten miles long is projected and no doubt will speedily be constructed by the enterprising people of the Grey. Their energy aud public spirit put to shame the Lyell and Wangapeka reef speculators. Already the Inangahua is becoming a market for Nelson cattle, which have to be, at great risk, swam or boated across the Buller. The good people of Nelson seem hardly to think enough of the value good roads and bridges would be to them in causing to flow into their city, in larger quantities than is now the case, the gold irom the South-west Goldfields. A young man, named Harry Perry, a digger having a claim on the Maruia, about five miles from its junction with the Buller, was, there is every reason to suppose, drowned on Friday, the 11th inst., while attempting to bring back his canoe, which had been washed down the river some distance during the flood which was just subsiding. Tbe last time Perry was spoken to he was talking of bringing this canoe back . again; to do this he would have to get in and paddle her up the river

against the current, which was very strong, aud, it is supposed, took charge of the canoe aud carried it into a gut below, untii it was stopped by a snag in the river, where it was discovered lying bottom upwards two or three days afterwards, with something floatiug in the water from underneath, which led to the belief that the body of Perry was jammed inside, but at the time of the searching, and discovery of the canoe the river was too high for anyone to approach. The diggers have been very diligent iv their search for the body, and no pains will be spared to recover it, when every respect that the circumstauces will permit will be shown the deceased. The constable lately located on the Matakitaki has been to the scene of the accident. The deceased was working alone, and was a very steady-going, quiet, young man, ouly nineteen years of age, and his loss has cast a gloom over the neighbourhood. Three days later we hear that the canoe has again been shifted by the river, and carried away, no trace whatever of the body having been found.