SECOND SET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 57, 6 March 1872, Page 2

SECOND SET.

At the Inquest on the body of Mr. Henry Macintosh, the jury recommended that some system of signals should be adopted by which a traveller might be informed when he could cross the fords in safety. — Westport Times. The Southern Cross estimates that the City of Auckland has saved £1000 upon | the cost ol the various city works now in | progress by letting them before tenders were called for the other extensive public works, which have created so large a demand for labor. The Death of one who was, in two senses, an old resident of Hokitika — Mr. Archibald Bonar — was announced yesterday. Many residents of Invercargill, of Hokitika, and of other places in the Colonies will remember the good, homely, old gentlemen whose days have thus ended. ]\ir. Bonar was a type of that class of ho.nely old people who are, as yet, seldom met with in the colonies, but whose presence amongst us is like a green spot in N;< i ure's wastes. Many will remember ) im, and, with his son, will regret the ■leath of one who was deservedly esteemed I / his family and by the general communitv.— G. E. Argus,

An Accident occurred to the coach running between Greymouth and Hokitiko, at a place between Arahura Bridge and Waimea track. On the coach getting into a. hole, the leaders bolted off, when the coach had to be dragged out, and was taken into Hokitika by the wheelers only. The Hon. Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox were passengers. The Westport Times states that far from reodermg tbe site of the town more insecure, the new channel is likely to uflect it beneficially. There is a general tendency to increase all along the beach from the lower part of the town towards the Orawiti. Opposite Martin's store a considerable deposit has taken place, as also along the line opposite Dr. Thorpe's residence. The Wangauui Chronicle mentions, as uffordiug au illustration of the effect of forest trees on rain, that more than once in these quiet close evenings a settler on No. 2 line has not only seen the scud of rain passing over the bush land lying in the upper district, but has actually heard the fall and patter of the rain in that direction while not a drop fell on his own dry and parched lands.

Yards. Corps. 200 400 500 r* o "H Corporal "Reader, W., Waimea 12 12 12 36 Private Finney. E , City Rifles 5 15 13 33 Prvt. Tomlinson, Jos. Waimea 12 14 7 33 Prvt. Clouston, W., City Rifles 7 7 16 30 Prvt. Tomlinson, G., Waimea 11 8 9 28 Prvt. Nichols, J., City Rifles ... 7 8 10 25 Prvt. Hunter, Jas., Waimea ... 11 y 4 24 Priv. Palmer, A.. do 10 6 4 20 Prvt. Wratt, S., do 8 7 4 19 Prvt. Peary, T, do 8 9 2 19 Prvt. Edmunds, C, do. ... 9 0 4 13 Prvt. Polglase,R.,City Rifles... 4 0 7 11