The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 36, 11 February 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1874.

The Superintendent has received a telegram Jfrbin JMf liuckie stating* that,;' owing' to-" the., late ..^epiirtaria, V,of ; thq steamer from Manukau on Monday, it wqß impossible ; for Him to arrive here" in time, for las.t nigbj^:. pinner, which r b eV^bqTd ceptamly '. J^e a'ttenfradf if /it, could have been managed , in aqy Wf *y.) as it would havp afforded him much pleasure to be 'present when the public ' bf JN.el.9pn offered a tributeof respect fo : the Premier. . ■-■;•- --—A well-attended meeting was h^d. at.lhe Pier Hotel last* forS the; piy-pose of-formiiig-a Nelßoa branch of the above .- So.cj^ty, , whe'A fi/ty :'. wef.e; ib- ; seized apn^en^bers ofjihio.tjjnjoD, ''..] ; L ,-, ' Eifle Match.-tA rifle match be-' tween the/ Gity" Rifles and Stoke Rifleei, took place at the Maitui Butts this morning, iii whteh the City Rifles jiroy^d victqriioua by $8 points, their ; tiotal ecores being _421" points against 36S of: th.e Stoke. shall publish^ the'-flcol^s in full^o-mbrrown . ; . ' r ' An EDglisn' telegram wo. published' some days ago announced a valuable gold discovery in N&taU The folio wk) ipg paragraph, which is taken 1 from the article o( the *T!3B»eß.f of Novera-ber.-20, probably,- relates to.? the same: - goid-field^ :-rrf. c ( The advices from the ' Caps of Good Hope state that the golddiscoveries reported' by? "the; j previous . mail are at a locality about 500 or 600 miles north %f thje diamond fields, whence , they can be reached 4n about seven or At present there siems to j beynb information sufficient to attract baaVy explorers," but' 't.h© fact of .two duggets haviqg been fo.yad-rrone Weighs ing ityozß., and tjhe other nearly 23 ozs. r—bas Jed lo the inference that the disiti&ttoqt KQ yefy rich." : : f Emigration continues to attract a good deal of attention. : With.the exception of Mr Midhie; all the ageats-general are hard at workprpcurittg and forwardfngf emigrants of the right ettimp. Dr Featheretone willj during the '< next month, despatch . no less than seven ships, and in January a still larger number. By the end : b^ the, year he will have forwarded fully 1400 souls 1 since, tl# first/ of January, and hisprospects for the comiu^ year are good!; He has concludeflan engagement with a thoroughly efficient agent for; portions of France, Swii9eflarid,' v and ; P;iedradtit, and this agent knots' the w^irk ';-pjb Kas to do. Queensland is quite. alive to the good of pppulatioo^ and in. her agentgeneral she has a thoroughly efficient representative,—* Home JTe we/