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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 123, 23 May 1873, Page 2

"Night Hawks/ aliaß rowdy reprobates, who deserve flogging at the carttail, have re-cqmmenced their pranks at Charleston, removing signs, capsizing water tanks, and generally making fools of, themselves and annoyiDg their neighbors. — Westpprt Times. The Shareholders in the Excelsior claim have good reason to be jubilaut, as very rich quartz has lately been discovered in the main reef, this atono is estimated to contain at least 3oz of gold to the ton, and the reef, at the place of discovery, shows a width of 3 feet. Quick Justice. —"iEgleß" writes in the Australasian :—-There is a rapidity about criminal proceedings in the colonies which would make our slower - going friendfi in England stare. A rnsln dines with you on Monday ; on Tuosday he is arrested for an error in caligraphy ; Wednesday finds him committed for trial, and as the Criminal Sessions are close at hand, he is perhaps convicted and sentenced during the next three days. Thuß within a week of this criticising your Chablis, and questioning whether a coursed hare is really better eating than if it had been shot, ho may be clean shaved at the national cost, and be tempting Warder Steadfast to smuggle him a fig of tobacco. Does any one donbt but that in Victoria we would have settled the butcher or baronet question long ago ? The stout person implicated would either have had the property, or the gaolers would have had him before this,

It appears extremely probable that the Westport School committee will be soon called upon to obtain more teaching power and extended school accomodation. The rising [generation have mustered at the school-house in full force during the Last week Sixty, ninety, one hundred, one hundred and twenty strong, and the cry is «' till they (jome." Twelve months ago a share in the Alpine Company, Lyell, was sold to Mr Acton Adams, of Nelson, for the sum of £100, under the following conditions: — That £500 be paid down, and at the expiration of twelve months it should be optional with the purchaser whether he paid the additional £500 or the deposit were refuuded with, interest at teu per cent, added: We understand that Mr Adams has elected to receive back the deposit of £500 -with £50 interest added. — Inangahua Herald.