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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 126, 28 May 1874, Page 2

I. .. ' ' ■■ I ■*■ • A criminal named Morrison, who was sentenced at Dunedin in 1865 for rape and in 1868 for forging a cheque, was, only out ot prison a few days when he was again arrested for passing valueless cheques. The party of 20 Chinamen, who for a month or two past have been fossicking on the banks of the Buller and luangahua rivers, have wended their way towards the Lyell as a more likely locality for lighting on payable patches. Some of them recently applied (or work on the road contract, offering their services at nine shillings per day, The offer was declined, ihe contractor preferring to employ European labor.-— Westport Times. It is rumored that a formal offer has been'made to the Provincial Government of Otago by a well known firm or Dunedin contractors to lease the Port Chalmers Railway for a term of years at an annual rental of £20,000, and that the offer is under consideration. The Chairman of the Licensing Bench at Blenheim has decided that dealers in spirituous liquors from Wellington, Nelson, or elsewhere, would be precluded from selling their wares in the Province of Marlborough without they bad taken out a wholesale license in that Court. And he gave directions to the police to take proceedings against any offenders. Is not this absurd? Marlborough is chiefly supplied with its consumable goods from these two places and yet their wholesale merchants are prohibited.- from taking orders in Marlborough unless they take out a wholesale license in that Province !