MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 239, 9 October 1871, Page 2

MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1871.

"Decimal Company.— We-, are glad to learn that the, battery,, for this Company has arrived from Melbourne by the Tararua, and will be forwarded to Colling•wbod 'by theWrlfest opportunity. ' ' l Cbicket.— Meetings ariB r to be: held to night, at the Trafalgar Hotel of those who,, are desirous of forming; a club in Nelson, and at Richmond, .of; the members of the Waimea East Club. Assembly Rooms. — An ; entertainment consisting of "Mysterious Shadows," supplemented by a real Punch and Judy show, is to be given, at the Assembly Rooms! ; this evening, arid -jsrij), .'jab ilbubt, attract a large audience of children. „ r The Late-Boat 1 AcciDENT.-^-The bbdy of Wiiliwn , %ebb^fy , who,V»B.4 rowne 4 in . attempting to enter, : the, channel through the Boulder, Bjmk was discovered near, the Eightfrouse; this morning, in a decom-' posed and almost unrecognisable slate. An 'io'qa&t* was' hfel'd : fhis r 6fteri6b|iwhen Mr,,John ( ;Kidson deposedVd KaVinglound the body 'of a man, lying on his face, early f . this morning, a^on} 30Q.y£$Ts to the.east■yWd^o'f "the ligbibo.ufte.Ti/Fijplingj if at be could not by himself; get it- > into, -the ■> boat* - without its-falling to pieces, he obtained asßiston«e t frpm,the 1 8h^QEe, an£ brought it to' , t^botei;'M4fe°f-] Wlurthea lying. Stephen Leaver "Identified the body as that, 'of Wifliam i Webber, froih- the^ bdotsT^rhicb 1 7 ''lifia la SaSatW / '-iicleß-Wit4i . •hHsia^eyillet'ftoles ;, _thetear,on the left leg of the tfb'wsers' J mended with white "thread ; the shirt and : ihe ; ;^ul^i r |proQ'^d,/>rW^ f hatf a nbtteh in / ; .U e ;|^ip.;"Mr^ '{■■! the young lady who was drowned at the „ ...^^- B aoie-tiine r ,look.excjapiiPil M. ibj.ex idence - ! adduced atf the/ previous inquest, as being entirely. diflerentV that which would have!* been siven by Watson Had he been present'; to refer to the death of Miss Eeynolds,

they -were not admissable in the present instance when the inquest was being held into the cause of William Webber's death. A verdict was returned to the effect that deceased was accidentally drowned <by, the upsetting of a-boat. 7 A "7 1-7 "'^ Spring GrOye;,,lnstitute. — A lecture was delivered on Friday eveuinjr, io the schoolroom, by Mr. Robert Edmunds, in aid oi the funds of the Spring Grove Institute. Mr. Newell Phillips, of Wakefield, occupied the chair. The subject, " Astronomy or,;tbings 'fcwixt heaven and earth," was most ably treated aud illustrated by numerous models and diagrams, on the preparation of which much time and labor must have been expended. The audience was numerous and attentive, and a very cordial vote of thanks to the lecturer was unanimously carried. Lost in the Woods. — Nearly a fortnight ago a man named Langmuir, in the employ of Mr. Brownie?, the proprietor of the saw-mills, at Havelock, "suddenly left his work and disappeared, after having been on a drunken spree for some time, the result of which was a slight attack of delirium tremens. For the first two or three days his absence was but little noticed, but as nothing was heard of him, some alarm was felt,* and enquiries wfere made, which, however, '.did hot lead to his discovery, and when he had been missing a week, the matter ; was reported to the Resident Magistrate, who despatched tbe police in searchl For several days their search was unsuccessful, but eventually he was discovered in the bush. not Jar, from the spot, from -which he had started, after having been out eleven days without: food of any kind. Strange to say, he was, when found, able to walk, and is likely to recover from the, effects of the hardship aod privations he ha J undergone. We are. unable, to. give full particulars, as the report of his having been found was-only forwarded to Nelson by telegraph this morning. The Tichborne Case. — If the most recent chapter of tbe Tichbprue romance. be faithfully written,, the claimant has himself left on record in Australia such. eyjdence r of his identity with Arthur Ortori as no jury could ignore. ;The fVagga ■Express publishes extracts from a pocket book said to have been left io the possession of a pefsbnin* that -township by de Castro. This "book bears unmistakable evidence of. having formerly belonged to the claimant; In it, in his own haudwriting,.is the name of Tom de Castro and Rodger Charles Tichborne. Thus it would7appear in the first place that the baronet had forgotten how to spell his own name. Curiously i. enough, too, io entering the name of his ancestors' family seat "he' placed.it in Surrey instead of Hampshire. Now'it may be possible for a man to forget his French, but scarcely to forget his name and where the ifamily. yoof-tree is situated. There is another entry, which indicates that R. C. Tichborne arrived at Hobart Town on 4th July, 1854. The claimant avowed in his evidence, that. he had never been in Hobart Town, so that, this, presuming the book to have belonged to him, and the entries to be in his handwriting,. im.ay throw , a. little additional light upon de Castro's Colonial antecedents. In the same pocket book the writer has entered the following significant text, ■ • Some men has plenty money and no brains, and some has plenty brains and no money; Some men with plenty money, and no brains, were made for men with plenty brains and 'no money.-— R. C. Tichborne, Bart.?' The last entry in the book is the address^ of a "Miss Mary Ann Loder, No. 7 Russell's Buildings; HighStreet, Wapping,, London." It will be readily perceived of what value such cvi r dence.as this .must be. jto, the defendant. The only singular, circumstance ;; is the production of the pocket book at this late, t,date, whenevidenpe of Tom de Castro's antecedents is known to be at a; premium. The'^geri Pieman who discussed so ably with hiiriself the advantage of having "plenty, brains," evidently lacks the bump of : catitioh'. thW"^ 1 indispensable in hunting a fortune, 1 or 'te -wou'ld 1 ' n'6t' have' 'left his pocket .book at W^aggtjr Wagjga to bear testimony /against thim. l !? Thel veritable Arthur Orton; :it' id confidently asserted 1 by I certain-of /our;townßmen :who-profesß>to be, weHr^ppstedf.upvjn tjieseAnj atters, has undoubtedly -been traced. |to & lunatic asylum in this colony, and will be produced and Identified Vfreo'ttie f proper moment 1 arrives. TH^Pl'and • ©J'-istea'mer-' Malacca, with the relief crews from the Megoera arrived ■at Qtieenscliff on ihe x27th( September) A Prisoner, under sentence for horse 1 has- escaped from St. Helena, ;dp*ensl^nd r to the^mwn^ land a sugar cooler, t p<- ' «■•-§ Three sugar cargoes arrived at Adelaide on tte — one from tßonr,bon./one'from;Batavia, and one from Mauritius, 'j vJl.i the:vreo_uißAt ofnth^Gei'ttffln:rss|dents in f Adeia'idejtheiiEmperol' of jGrermany has given tK#hWwfr ; 'clpftirsa Frenish* cannons, 'to be anelted W»d made into two bells j for the new German church in that town, j ' '

Amusement) at the Thames. — Cock fighting has now become quite an institution on the' Thames. The authorities make ': nri^efforty to7*Btop it, and indeed pander; 7, to j the morbul ;taßte of the public; . ,Suni^da^after~nponvJß the time appoiqted^for: tho sport, and hundreds of miners, their wives and children regularly assemble to witness the disgraceful exhibition. 1 1 Warning; fT v q land' News of the' 20th' "ult. says :— A narrow escape from poisoning occurred a day or two sinceMnjthe;fan)ily of a settler residing a few miles out of town. It would appear that a bottle of chlorodyne had been left in a'plaee accessible to the childreu, and that one of them about four years Old took a. copious draught-jof tbe contents. The hot flavoring of the compound made the unwary . little . toper cry, and the house was very speedily in an -uproar. • A messenger was- despatched for medical assistance, but he could not for some time find a doctor. At length "'one* was obtained, and igalloped in-- hot baste to the rescue, only 5 to discover on his arrival that nature had fores^illed the stomach-pump. But for ' an overdose having been • taken, - the- -. consequences might have been fatal . It is to' be hoped that the occurrence will act as ai caution to parents to keep poisonous medicines under. lock and.key.- ." Australian-Federation. — :That7some change in- the political condition of , Tasmania is imminent seems, probable. Just place two facts iv juxtaposition. 'There. are in round numbers only 20,000 adu.lfc males— bread winners — in the island. And there are 615 'persons iri Government employment, receiving £.61,600, or an average ,of £1,000 a year each.' ' Thetwo classes can't run long together iv harness — the one pulling in the collar with sore shoulders- ; and the other hauging back in ihe breeching.. It-is quite enough to pull the' machine without? having; to drag the yokefellow. ., There will* be a kick over the traces soonl They won't ge't 'rid of the ; rats from the ,Cerberus,-,or the bureaucrats from Tasmania, but by one simple process ; — equally .applicable in each ..case— the /starvation process." The' Yankees jsugj/ested towing Ireland across the Atlantic and anchoriug her off Hell-gate.' • Couldn't we annex Tasmania and' ground her somewhere near the heads ? . Would it be treasonable for the Tasninnian members of the conference to sound Mr. '. Duffy on the question, calling it federation,. as sounding less humiliating than annexation ? It is only' a question of time as regards the acquisition of Tasmania and Eiverina. — Australasian. A'a • < '■:■'■:■> .4 Peripatetic Parliaments. — A move each session -in favor of peripatetic Parliaments, seems to beas.regular now as the return of the sessions, so of course it could not be expected that the -present sitting would "pass without the question being raised somehow. : Last evening Mr. Reader Wood gave notice of motion that the next session of. Parliament should be held iv Dunedin. The announcement was received with laughter,. and the probability of its being carried seems very small ; but should the attempt be successful this year, of course, Christchurch, ' Nelson, and Auckland, will ask to be honored by the presence of Parliament, if only for, one little session. And if llhese, why not Napier, Taranaki, Hokitika, and Greymouth ? Where is the. line to be drawn ? Perhaps members would /like, to sit one session at the Bluff, and each year make a step up the East Coast till they rekch the North, calliog, of course, at all intermediate ports, and in due time returning down the East Coast. — Post. TToo Bad. — A ,great hoax was perpetrated in Adelaide by a person, name unknown, who, soon' after the arrival of the branch maiil 'steamer,. w£6te thel following on the Government notice board outside the Telegraph . station r^" Great , European wan Queen, on -fdeathrbed. Ministry resigned." This announcement caused great; ekcitemen t^ ! and the news sbbh spread. 'Several' clergymen in Adelaide offered up prayers during the morning service, in accordance with tbe sad npwsi : < ; . *jj