The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 84, 8 April 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1872.

The Lady Barkly. — Owing to some accident to ber machinery, the Lady Barkly will be laid up for some flays. Notice will be given of the day when she will recommence running, San Francisco Mail. — Although we received the telegrams by the Nevada yesterday, it will be sometime before the mail reaches us, the Taranaki which arrived this rooming having left Manukau before the American steamer was signalled. Wipe Desertion. — R. K. Turner, who departed from Nelson a lew days ago and shipped as a seaman on board the Chile at Port Underwood, was brought back in the Wellington yesterday, and had an interview this morning with the Resident ''"Magistrate, who fined him £1 and costs for deserting his wife; and ordered him to pay 15s. a week towards her support. •-/L Westport. -r- Another nugget, of over 50 ounces, has/ been fouud; near the Lyell. A party of five miners has obtained 500 ounces of gold from tbeir claim at the Lyell, in five weeks. Wanganui.— -The body of a woman . fees been found near the bridge. Appa- " _ rently she had 7 bee v . strangled . Robert A : %si-''i~.. :vjv.'- • * 'J-'..'&s-~.-'--'i- ''.'.'•'

Rodgers bas hung himself in Turakfr-M gaol. Agricultural Statistics. — From a relnrn published in the Govern.* ment Gazette of March 28-th we I that in the suburbs of Neisen ** *earn I 1230 acres of wheat 3 )<^7 . uiere were for green food. or >•- 7«,d0 acres of outs 288 of barl*-*- „< ty ; and 599 for grain; potato-- . p^y . 629 of grass bay ;91 in "' .3 ; and 119 in other crops. Id the uistrict of Waimea : — wheat, 836 acres ; oats, green, or for hay, 563 ; for grain, 483 ; barley, 31 acres ; grass hay, 351 ; potatoes, 106 ; other crops, 52. Molueka (including Waimea West):— wheat, 1403 acres ; oats, green, or for hay, 203 , for grair*, 978 ; barley, 220 ; grass hay, 543 ; potatoes, 435 ; olher crops, 235. ColliDgwood : — wheat, 50 acres ; oats, green, or for hay, 45 ; for grain, 46 ; barley, 11 ; grass hay, 193 ; potatoes, 83 ; other crops, 19 acres. The quantity of the previous year's crop remaining on hand iv the province at lhe time the form was filled up WBS : _wheat, 701 bushels ; oats, 5,250 bushels ; and barley, 1045 bushels.