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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 280, 28 November 1870, Page 2

Auckland. —The drought which has .prevailed for so long a time in Auckland w;»3 broken on Saturday last, by a Jjpavy 'iii <>f rain. —Three men, named John Friers, Irwin, and Armstrong, have been nm vie ted of carrying on milt distillation, and have each been fined £100. JVkw Mail Arrangements. — The -"-'■.mmcan correspondent ot the Southern Cross says that Webb's and the North Pacific Company's first steamers start in February, culliny at Honolulu and Fiji, with a, branch boat fo Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, the main line continuing to Morton Island, there transhipping the mails and telegrams lor Sydney and Melbourne. The steamers io be employed in this service are to be tbe Nevadu, Nebraska, and D.-icotah. It is undecided yet as to what will be the fourth vessel. The passage to Auckland is expected to be accomplished in tweutyi'our days. A Lunatic who was recently removed from Pic ion to Ly Mcl ton ap- ears to have ••rented some little excitement in sthe lastnii'iiiioned town. Ou tbe steamer reaching ihe whiirfhe leaped from the steamer io the shore and made off. Tlie mate of ih-; vessel, however, gave chas*, aud after some slight, struggling, iv the course of which the mate received a severe black eye, the unfortunate man was reca.ptutvd, and sent through to Cnristchurcb in charge of one of the warders of the asylum.