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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 13 January 1873, Page 2

A Handsome Nugget weighing over 270z, was brought into Keelfcoa from the Lyell district last week, by a man named Yankee Alec. He was working a couple of months since at Anderson's prospecting claim, and hag only been at the Lyell about six weeks, so lhafc he must be considered very fortunate. The nugget ia somewhat of a parallelogram form, slightly waterworn, and impregnated with a species of blue slate. — Inangahua Herald s January 1. An Accident, with much of the ridiculous in it, happened a few days ago on the old jetty, Dunedin. An individual was walking on the jetty, lost in the contemplation and admiration of his manly features as reflected in a looking-glass, which he carried in his hand. He, was

aroused from his reverie by being " surprised to find" that he had walked overboard. He soon emerged from the water on to firm wood, bewildered and less nttractive in appearance than before bis dip. Flogging; in Gaol. —A man named William Thomas, convicted at the Supreme Court, at Wellington, on Monday last, of an indecent assault upon a little girl, was sentenced to be flogged, and the punishment was administered on Weduesday. The Post thus describes it : —On the prisoner being taken into the yard, his first enquiry was, " Has the surgeon come." He then commenced in a cool manner to suggest alterations in the position of the triangles, to which he was to be fastened. Some of them were adopted, as he evidently had had former experience of the punishment. The surgeon arrived, the man stripped to his waist, and placed himself in position to be flogged. To two legs of the triangle his feet were secured, about 24 inches apart, his chest rested on a narrow board fastened across the legs of the triaDgle, and his arms were tied up, his hands being slightly higher than his head. The whole body was inclined forward. His back bore the marks of previous severe whippings quite plainly. The surgeon having felt his pulse, the turnkey commenced his work. The first blow left a purple streak about two inches wide across the man's shoulders, and at the eighth small drops of blood drawn by the knots appeared. The whola twenty-five lashes were administered in about two minutes. They must have been felt severely, because, though the man did not utter a sound, his body quivered all over, and the muscles stood out like bars. On beingftaken dowD, he quietly picked up his clothes, and asked for a piece of linen to put over his back. The New Zealand Herald urges the Auckland Provincial Council to take steps to put a stop to the adulteration of food so extensively carried on in Auckland. The Herald says that a £50 fine would be a