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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 153, 4 July 1871, Page 2

following items of intelligence fyrom Inangahua, are published in the FPestport Times : — Several cattle dealers arrived on Monday, at Reefton, from Nelson, and report considerable excitement owing to valuable discoveries at the/ Mangles river, a tributary of the Duller. Some miners there are reported to hVve washed out 16 ounces of coarse gold from a single tin dishful of dirt, taken from the bed of the river. Newton and party on Kelly's line of reef have completed their tramway and shoot. The work has been ' carried out in a most creditable and workmanlike manner, as also with remarkable promptitude. They expect to commence crushing at the Murray Creek/ Cement Company's battery in three weeks. Kelly and party are busily engaged raising stone, which exhibits considerable improvement in quality since the trial crushing. The crushing plant will be got on the ground with as little delay as possible. A small rush has taken place to some ground distant two miles from Hughes' accommodation house, at the junction of Coal Creek and the Buller, owing to Neil M'Lean and party having found payable prospects. About a dozen/ men were on the ground when our mformant passed." /

The New South Wales Government have passed a Railway Loan Bill for £400,000. The " Southern Cross " has arrived at Sydney with a cargo of sugar and barley from Honolulu. An attempt has been made at Adelaide to throw the Northern train off the line. Fortunately it was unsuccessful. Mr. W. H. Bent ia exhibiting a pano- > rama of the Franco-Prussian war in' Christchurch. The Pulpit and Scrip-speculators. — The Rev. J. Cosh, a "Wesleyan minister, in a sermon lately preached by him in Auckland, spoke without the slightest reserve to those persons who borrowed money, or neglected to pay their tradesmen's bills in order to speculate in scrip ; he declared such persons to be "little better than common thieves." We learn from the Auckland papers that the company for the importation of pure-bred stock into that Province, which Vas formed by some of its " most influential settlers," has turned out a failure. A secretary was appointed, a prospectus issued, and a large number of settlers promished to take shares- But unfortunately the promises were like the proverbial pie crust ; and the result is that a movement which, if properly carried out, would have benefited not only Auckland but the whole Colony, has completely fallen through. The Norwegian immigrants can hardly be expected to transmit to their friends jn/ Europe favorable accounts regarding New Zealand, for it, is. stated that the road leading to the townshipwhere they are located, is for ten miles, ;burie(} in. mvd r deep enough to reach to a horse's chest, and flour has iin, consequence' reached l the price-bf 27si per cvk-