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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 156, 2 July 1872, Page 2

The first passenger train on the Dunedin and Port Chalmers railway is expected to run in August. It is srafed that since the introduction of New Zealand meat at MaiJstone Gaol, the prisoners have increased' considerably in weight. We are not Bure that the County of Kent is much benefitted by increasing the weight of the criminals with which it is burdened. . : A Chinese doctor has commenced;practice in the Chinese Gamp at Tuapeka. He advertises himself as being " licensed as a duly qualified, surgeon by tbe British authorities of Hong Kong."

The Provincial Council of Taranaki have granted twelve months protection to Mr. Rotten, to enable him to form »Com ; pany to work the petroleum springs at the Sugar Loaf. The Council voted a bonus of £500 for the first 10,000 gallons exported. Scandinanian IMMIGRATION may prove an economical mode of populating the country after i.ll, as we read in a New South Vales paper that a Swedish woman who arrived at Maryborough, Queensland, by the last immigration ship, gave birth to four female infants, all- alive and doing well at the date of the last advices. We bear of a slice of unwonted good fortune having befallen an Auckland settler, such as does not .often fall to the lot of colonists. This lucky individual, who has been living at, the Bay of Islands, has just received notice from England that he is the possessor of £300,000. This, it seems, is the accumulation of a sum of money, which for a length of time has been locked up in the Court of Chancery, and which now, with the interest of years, is once more to. see the light of day. The owner has been avertised for for some years, but until lately his whereabouts could not be discovered. A legal firm in this city have received instructions to take steps to represent the claimant. — N. Z. Herald. There is an "Acclimatising Society" in San Francisco, organised for the purpose of introducing birds and fish from other parts of the world. The fish-ponds and hatching houses occupy sixty acres about fifteen miles from the city. Spawn of speckled trout from the East has been hatched with remarkable success, fully 90 per cent, of 10,000 eggs imported last winter coining to maturity. The trout are from one to five inches in length, far exceeding their growth in their native waters.

The General' Government intend conBtructipgrtbe : Th^mesTW'aterworks. There are 825 ... Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand. : GHAiR^MjikiNG is a branch of industry undertaken! by the Chinese in Melbourne; and it is said that their cleverness at carving finds good scope in the business. It has Jbeeu; proposed, in the Otago Council, that during the recess members should visit the yaripuSigoldfields and study , their.>:;requkements, and that the Council pay the expenses of such a trip. Mr. and Madame Simonsen, accompanied by the Kelly, Clark, and O'Neil troupe, with whom they had recently joined force's, left Auckland for San Francisco in the Nebraska in her last outward trip. A Run of washdirt, fifty feet wide, has been discovered at the new rush, Woodstock, Westland. j The Westland County Council haa been unable, to pay its education vote owing to the General Government impounding its revenue. The ' eight-hour system has been returned to, at Ross, by the Excelsior claim, the' management finding it impossible to get men on any other terms. A Late Native Meeting at Putiki, near Wanganui, is said to have cost £2500. The feast is said to have been " the most sumptuous affair the natives themselves had ever seen." A Barley Show has been held at Christchurcb, the prizes beinjj £30, £15, and £5 respectively. The prizes were subscribed for by the brewers and maltsters of Christchurch. There were only ten entries, the first prize being: awarded to H. D. Gardiner, of the Irwell. An Inquest was recently held at Cobden on the bodies of two miners named respectively Cornelius Warren and John Dempster, who bad been working for some time on the North Beach. They were, driving, a tunnel, when a sudden fall of earth took place, burying both of them, and before they could be extricated, life was extinct. A verdict of " accidental death " was recorded. The steamer Golden Crown had a narrow escape on a "recent trip from Coromandel to Auckland. The wea.thev was rery rongh, and as the steamer was passing one of the islands, the captain finding that they were getting too close to be comfortable, ordered the man at the wheel to keep away. The steersman mistook the order aod almost ran her on the rocks. The passengers rushed ou deck in considerable alarm, and some of them describe the escape as a very narrow one. A Full Share in M'Laren and party's claim, Shramrock Lead, Addison's, has re cently changed hands at £100 ; the exact price the seller gave for it four years since. In the interval the share has realised to the extent of £20. per week at certain times of the year, and the average yield has given from £4 to £6 per week steadily. The good ground is not yet worked out. Mr. Labkworthy, of the Bank of New Zealand, now in London, is a large landowner in tho Wairarapa district, and with the view of bearing his share of tho local, burdens, has forwarded £200 to the district, to be spent in assisting iu the erection of churches. Colonel Brett, in the Canterbury Provincial recently said, that out of the 700 volunteers in the Colony, not 50 would come to the front if occasion demanded. He said, " Would the married man risk hto life for nothing ? He would not. He would skedaddle with his goods and chattels to the busb." At a recent auction sale of stock at Hokitika the following sales were effected : 58 head of cattle at £7 ss. per head; 59 head at £7 12s. 6d.; and 60 head at £7 13b.— At the Lincoln fair, Canterbury, 40. head were sold at the rate of 20s. per lOOlbs. A mob of old merino ewes in lamb to Leicester rams were bought in at An exchange says : — Coal is scarce in Wellington, ,w ( here it is £2 a ton,. Coal scarce !i with our Grey, Buller, Collingwbod, Auckland, and other mines waiting to be won ! It would be a wise course for the Government to aid internal industry, and save tens of thousands of pounds per annum by burning our owd coal, rather than flood us with Scandinavian immigrants.-'' '-'■'' •'' -'"- '•••■"■■< < ■ : The Wellington Post says that the General Government intend amalgamating offices by #o,t. rup vacancies, on the retirement of heads. -lof departments who arfl, entitled to pensions. .... It is understood "that ; Mr\Ei^ott, Ellipi^has already re- ; signed the Secf'etarysKip i| 6f { 4he Post-office, and tfaatthe vacancy ,will not ibe filled up, butlhat : the 'duties iwiiri be i discharged by Mr; 'Gray. "iO'ther changes are contem- . . plated^, tl p- : ,-,;,;/ „,'.>; ( *i. ; . . \ „ -.■■'.. A BRI&HTON -COJORESPONbENT of the Charleston Herald s&ys he contemplated ■ a Tent<dfrße^ s abite¥ being firmed there ;;^S^ifi^ :^Rmnier'B next] vist, as by that

time the stock 'pf whiskey will be exhausted. Stnrvntion or something akin will soon avertake t ho Briubtonites, if some of 1 the Charleston "knights of , the cleaver" don't' take pity, and send them down a bullock. It is now over a week since the writer tasted meat, and according to present appearances, another week will elapse ere any is obtainable. The Wdikato Times says : — There is a growing feeling of die trust throughout the provinces as to the sincerity of the Government iu carrying out the various Railway schemes. Although tenders for tho construction of the Waikato line are to be given iu next week. Messrs'Brogden aud Co. having been furnished with the requisite duta, yet the step cannot be accepted as an. earnest that the Government are sincere in their intentions to forthwith commence active operations, but. rather as a mere preliminary to quiet agitation. It is very enrtain that several months have been lost to no purpose, if I the work is really to be undertaken. "All in It." — Mr. Fox has contributed infer alia the following tit-bit ta a contemporary : — The Charleston people have a flag- staff, and h arbor-master to signalise, aud they want a Custom-officer. Some assert that a good deal of smuggling takes place there. Were it not for the contiguity of the town, it would certainly realise one's beau ideal of a smuggler's cove. In connection with this there is an anecdote current that is too good to be lost. It seems that some patriotic Charlestonian in advocacy, I presume, of the claim of Charleston to have a Custom House officer, went (o Mr. Curtis, the Superintendent of Nelson, and told him that there \v»s a large amount of smuggling going on in Charleston, that the spirit was imported in butter kegs. He stated also that the spirit came from Rungitikei. The Superintendent told him to report the matter to the proper authorities, the Inspector of Customs. •' That's no use," said the man, " he's in it; all the Government are in it. Why, you know, there's Mr. Fox going about and lecturing on teetotalism." Well, said Mr., Curtis, what has that to do with it ?■ " Why/' replied the man, " dou't you see, it's all a blind. This spirit comes from Rangitikie; he's in it ; all the Government are in it."