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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 82, 8 April 1871, Page 2

There have been several Xaraniea visitors at the Buller lately. They speak well of the prospects of that place, and indeed some go the length of saying that there will be a stir about the diggings ia that locality before many months. A few fair parcels of gold have been sold to the banks from Karamea since Christmas. " Old Reuben Waits " has a store down there, and he took down supplies of provisions and liquor by a recent trip of the Kennedy.-— Grey River Argus.

Four shillings a day is the rate ot wages paid to Ihe roa I men nt Tauranga. A Bazaah recently ludd at Greymouth in aid of tho Roman Catholic Church fund realised the sum of £6-1:0. TnE Ross N'tws notices, as a new local industry, the curing of fish by Mr. J. Beuuetr, who has lately been netting in the Waugouui, aud in one tide caught 200 dozen of five mullet. With reference to the completion of the Port Chalmers Graving Dock, it i 3 a matter of considerable importance to owners and agents of ships trading with the port to know that while vessels are in dock, the discharging or loading of cargo can be carried on without difficulty. A Correspondent of a contemporary su? "rests that Mr. Fox should pay a visit to King Tawhiao to endeavor to get him to give up drinking rum and sign the pledge. A country paper says that this is the last thing from an impossioned lover to his mistress : " Would you were an""^elamation point and I a parenthesis (!)" The consumption of breadstuff's in the Auckland market is estimated by n local at 147 tons per week. The returns ilPf imports and of local production for the ¥ year 1870 are taken as a basi3 of calculation. A Southland paper mentions that a census sub-enumerator, finding that, under the heading " occupation," there was nothing stated with regard to the wife of the " head of the family" upon whom he called, mildly suggested that the words "domestic duties" should he inserted. His astonishment was great when he found the door shimmed in his face by tho evidently enraged husband, who blurted oul, " D you sir, do you wish to insuk me. My wife perform domestic duties indeed i" The original founder of the Auckland Times, of New Zealand, says an English contemporary, was at first starting, sini) pending the arrival of hUmateriel, allowed the use of the Government press and types ; but., having commented rather freely on the Acts of the local Government, the further use of them was denied him. He was thus driven to great straits to carry on his paper ; but by great exertions collected a miscellaneous lot of type of various founts, and for a press had recourse to the family mangle. Being a man of as much humor as enterprise, he made himself merry over his troubles in such phrases as "We stop the mangle to announce," &o. "Our paper went to mangle yesterday at 12 o'clock," till the arrival of the ship with all his jobbing office enabled him to announce that he had " sold his mangle." The ceremony of turning the first sod of the Southern Trunk Railway was 'recently performed by the Governor in the vicinity of Dunedin. The general characteristics of the work are described as follows: — The sharpest curve is ten chains radius, and the steepest gradient 1 iv 50, but the inclines at this rate are few and short. T!k;c will be two tunnels on the line, one 820, and the other 540 yards. There are also three viaducts, two river bridges and four road bridges, all of iron and stone. A Masonic Lodge is about to be formed at Levuka, Fiji. Mr. Gladstone attained his sixty-first birthday on 29th December. Mr. Disraeli reached his sixty-fifth year on 31st December. The Ordnance Department in Mcl bourne has invited tenders for the supply of shot and shell for rifled guns.