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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 19, 23 January 1871, Page 2

The Grey River Argus of the 12th "states that on Wednesday afternoon a boy named Rayraon reported to the police that he had come across the skeleton of a man in the bush s some distance behind-Mr. Revell's old camp, on the lagoon. A constable was , immediately despatched to the spot, and the skeleton was found quite bleached, and some clothes a short distance from it. A pair; of hlucher boots were found near the spot; they were very little worn, and the uppers . good.. £*he appearances led to "the belief that some insane man must have taken off his boots, and clothes,- and laid- down to die. An inquest will be heldj iv order, if possible, to lead to the i.dentifiation of the.decased." The Working;.. of; the BAi.LaT.r4+ At : the.close of the. late election for ; Ghristchurch East, .Mr. Donald, the Returning Officer, said that those present .would, doubtless, be curious to know, how ,. the j new system "had worked.* Altogether he thought the electors had understood "the system remarkably well." Seven* had' put' their names across the ballot paper, * ! t wo did not strike either of- the liiamesVfout, and one had carefully torn the number off. his ballot paper — these were the; only in*formal papers during the election, and, he thought it showed that the electors un**derstpod the system "of vote •by .ballot pretty well. One noticeable feature, however, was that less than one-half. :of the electors on the roll only hadvotedv; ! '(The Ross' ( Westland) \ Guardian says that one of the -neatest- electioneering dodges that ever came under its notice was that a man had his pocket ; picked of his . miner's right on aii election day, and had it returned to him after the pbll closed. ■ - - -a ■» An Otago contemporary says that the Chinese are rapidly increasing, in tbe neighborhood of Macetown. Already, it is . said, the race-owners experience con- , siderable difficulty in obtaining ground, and in a few years it is anticipated that the European miners will be fairly busted' by the Chinese. Speaejng of the contest for the Superintendence I*,1 *, of Otago now going on, a country correspondent of the Otago. Times', toy* :— "There seems .but; little; interest taken here as to the result of the election for Superintendent. It will be. a race without a favorite. Some say,' 'better the devil we know than the devil we don't know j". but ;mps(r> think; thai the .present 'devil? , cannot be-painted in colors too dark* 'arid- that "we ought to 'vote for Mr. Reid to prevent anymore of ihe absurdities of Mr. Macandrew..'