The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 173, 19 July 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1873.

Supplement.—With to-day'e issue we publish the annual report of the Inspector of Schools, a document that is always looked forward to with much interest in the various school districts. Out in the Snow.—A. telegram from the Waiau Police Station was received by the Provincial Secretary last night stating that some travellers had arrived at the Clarence station who had been out in the snow, and had been severely, aud it was feared dangerously, frostbitten. Authority was at once telegraphed hack to the Amuri to provide nourishment and medical attendance for Ihe unfortunate men, who are said to be entirely destitute. The Lteli. DiSTßicT.—The following is an extract from n private letter from a reeident in this district :—You ask my opinion of the Lyell. It is a cold, wretched place, and the most miserable township on the Coast. Everybody is complaining of the dulness of business. The reefs in some claims are very rich, and in others very poor, so that there is an uncertainty about the place. lam living about nine miles from the Ly<?ll, in a more open country, where I see more of the sun. I have about acre fenced, and have grown some fiun cucumbers aud melons, and enough potatoes to last mc the winter. We sent a lot of vegetables to the Lyell last summer, such as peaa beans, carrots, turnips, green corn, and any amount of cucumbers. There is a large quantity of poiatoes waiting at the landing up the Inangahua, to take down to Westport by the boats, and a great many were destroyed by the floods. There is not much loading up the river now, freight beiu«* only £6 a ton instead of £15, as it was at first. Potatoes, this time lust year were £30 a ton at Reefton, now they are to be bought for £4 10a, and chaff aud other horse-feed have come down in the same ratio. Last winter, hundreds of bales of .'chaff went up the river; now it is going down to Westport. Vegetables of every description grow in abundance. I dug up a head of celery last week, after chopping off the root its weight was 7lbs. Everybody up the Buller and Inangahua hae a garden. There are great numbers out of work here, and ore wandering about seeking it. The Government would be spending the money in a better manner by employing these poor fellows on the roads of the colony than paying Dr. Featherston and the immigrants who are coir.ing out.