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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 270, 13 November 1872, Page 2

A Fisherman at Wanganui made a haul last week of 250 tawai, averaging four pounds each. About twenty pure-bred Leicpster rams, nearly all owned by Mr. Robfc. M'Morvao, were found last week worried to death by dogs, in a paddock, uear Airowtovvn, Otago. . Tite Timaru Herald states that unless freight to England is lowered from Lytfelton and Duijedin, the route home via Melbourne will be likely to be largely adopted. At Green Island, near Dunedin, a shaft is being suDk some 200 feet in order to reach a seam of conl -which it is proposed to work. It is believed, that coal of a superior quality will be found. Tub number of .ounces of gold exported from Oiago since its discovery has now "turned" the third million, the quantity exported up to 30tb Sepremher last being 3,000,8410z., valued at £11,745,000. The Dunedin Quartz Mining Company at Saddle Hill, has a reservoir containing 3,000,000 gallons of water, a steam engine of sixteen horse power, and a shaft sixty feet — prospects are lOdwt to (he ton. The foreman of the Grand Jury in Auckland recently made a presentment to the Court, to the effect tbnt the restrictions under the Arms Act were very loosely carried out, which was clear from the fact that there was an " armorer's ahop"in a pah at Maketu, in which no less than forty stand. of arms were found. Mr. William Isaac Wiltshire, brickmaker, Taranaki, has applied for letters patent for a plan he has discovered for converting the iron sand on our coast into " a hard, compact mass, thereby rendering it fit for srneltiDg in the same way as ordinary ore." Messrs. Kempin*g and Mosley for some time past have been prospecting up the Buller River for suitable seams of clay foi. brickmakiog purposes. These. they have discovered, about two. miles or so distant from Westporf, and they are now manufacturing aad;selling' bricks at a less price than those of Nelson make.