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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 262, 6 November 1871, Page 2

A Ntjgget weighing 51b 7oz. lOdwt was found recently, in the Greenstone district by a party of three miners named Frank Keenan, W. Spiers, and W. Connor. The nugget was found in a claim upon the Argus Terrace, about 300 yards to the west of the Court-house, just of the main road. The fortunate finders were, of course, exceedingly hilarious on espying the welcome stranger sticking out from the .face of the claim about 15 feet from the surface, and under where an immense boulder had been takenaway.; On taking the nugget to the bank, the party were

offered £257 cash for it; but they refused to sell it, aud merely deposited it at the Bank of New Zealand. The grouud in the vicinity of the find has been but little worked, so that a fresh impetus will be given to mining in the locality. The Westport Times is responsible for the following : — "lt is said that thedutiea hitherto performed by his Honor Judge Ward on the West Coast wiil be performed by Judge Richmond, and the proceedings of the District Court be merged in. the Supreme Court. The sittings of the latter will be held less frequently than, those of the District Court have been hitherto here. The field of Judge Ward's duties will, we believe, be extended to Southland aud the east coast of Otago." We have been favored (says the Southern Cross) with a perusal of a private letter sent by a gentleman in Auckland to a friend in Victoria who had forwarded £1000 for iuvestment in Thames stock. The responsibility of investing the money was declined, the reasons assigned for doing so being thus stated : — " I do not feel justified in investing it on a field where there is so much mismanagement, and as a rule here the better the prospects of the claim, the more chance you have of losing your money, unless you wish to become a speculator, and joiu in the system of rigging the market. As lam aware your object is to have a safe investment, I unhesitatingly state that there is no such thing here. . . . . . I may be able to make money for yon, but the risk is too great. The Thames Grold-fields are undoubtedly the richest ever discovered, but you have less risk in Victoria, miuiug being carried on with more honesty and integrity of purpose." The Tichborne case has been dramatised aad place upon the stage by a Liverpool manager, under the title of " Robert Bictiborae; or the Disputed Title." The play attracts large audiences. Setting- Water "on Fire. — An alarming story has recently been published in numerous journals in the colonies, purporting to be a narrative of the discovery made by a gentleman in America for setting the ocean on fire. The said gentleman requested that a certain number of millions of dollars should be given him not to put his discovery in force, but instead of receiving his quietus by beiDg thrown from a railway train over a precipice. Concerning this tale, the Dunedin Star writes : — " This story which has been given credence to by a good many people is a hoax, and it has been proved to be so. It is nothing more or less than a sensation story, written by a person named William H. Rhodes, for the Golden City, a San Faancisco newspaper, and the names of persons and places were only inserted to give color to the tale. Mr. Rhodes was at one time editor of the True Californian, and is now engaged in practice as a solicitor. His brother, Mr. B. H. Rhodes, has lately arrived at Brisbane from California, and vouches for the truth of the above statement." Two American ladies, accompanied by a near male relative, recently made the overland trip by sledges from the Okhotsk sea across Siberia to St. Petersburg a distance of 700 miles