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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 92, 18 April 1874, Page 2

The town, says the Groymouth Star, is lively with diggers en route for the Palmor. Tbe Claud Hamilton will likely be crowded. It is no use trying to stop this rush, but we might suggest that it would be wise on the part of the New Zealand Government to draw up a report of their goldfields management for the last nine years and send it over to Queensland, with a request that they would adopt it as a precedent. If this request was complied with it might tend to facilitate the return of some of the men now leaving, especially if our ruling powers adopted a more liberal code of rules and regulations in the meantime. A Mr F. M Cuskea, who seems to be troubled with a number of debtors who will not pay their little accounts, publishes tbe names of a dozen of them, with the amount of their bills, in tbe "Taranaki Herald," and adds in a foot-note, " this is only a small sample — about fifty more will go next week." " Speaking of extravagance in dress,' writes Captain Crosstree, " the most expensively dressed man I over saw was an African chief on the Gold Coast. His wives had annointed him thoroughly with palm oil, and then powered him from h/sad to foot with gold dust. You never in your life saw a man got up so ' utterly regardless of expense.' "

James Hare was brought before tbe Resident Magietrate of Wanganui on the 11th inst, charged with shooting a pheasant. The R.M., while inflicting a merely nominal fine, intimated that on a ropetition of the offence he would inflict the full penalty of £20. Madame Anna Bishop, we observe, was a passenger from San Francisco to Honolulu by a late steamer. It is probable she is giving a aeries of ontertairim'enta on her way to New Zealand and Australia.