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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 112, 13 May 1871, Page 2

Sudden Death. — On the sth May a child named Wm, Wilkinson,- aged 13 months, died suddenly from suffocation. It appears that the mother sat down to dinner, taking the child on her knee. She gave it some potato, and in a few moments the child expired. Dr. Nedwill was sent for, but he. found the child to be quite' dead' on his arrival. His opinion is, that a portion of the potato got into the child's windpipe, and suffocated it.— Canterbury Press. ■ ■ We learn from the Westland Independent that some riew^rbund has recently been opened at Tucker Flat, . Kanieri, and the discovery promises to be of, considerable importance. The prospects out of three shafts were excellent; the sinking is about 30ft, and there is some 6ft of wash. We hope this good news may. be confirmed, and that one of the lost leads has been thus picked up. West Coast. . — From the, .mining districts, the great ' cry is the want of water. Another six riionths of such.: weather as we have had for the last halfyear would impoverish and depopulate the goldfields, and the necessity for; providing against the evil effeclsof a recurrence of the present scarcity of water must, be patent to everyone. , The building of reservoirs and the construction of main trunk water-races has now become a question of greater importance to the population of this part of ihe country than American and New Zealand postal •arrangements, because, if matters go on at , the .present rate, there wi,!l .be nobody left, alive to send or receive, letters ; for, between emigration and starvation: we are disappearing , very -fast.— Grey. River Argus. ■ ■ ■:■ ■-. ' ■<•/■ < - :!i .■ :. :: :.•!! •/•".