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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 131, 3 June 1874, Page 2

Suez Mail. — A supplementary mail will be despatched by the Phoebe tomorrow morning in tbe hope that it will catch the Tararua at Wellington, for leaving which place her contract time is noon on Friday. Should the Alhambra arrive here in time, another mail will be made up dy her for Melbourne, from which port the P. and O. steamer sails on the 16th instant. Resident Magistrate's Court. — Thomas Barry was this morning charged with assaulting Michael and Richard Mullins. On the first charge he was fined one shilling and costs, and the other case was dismissed. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the defendant. From the Greymouth Argus we learn tbat " a feat in inland navigation was performed on the Grey river during the height of the gale one Sunday week last. One of Anderson and Reilly's cargo boats, while returning from Ahaura, got the full strength of the breeze when near the junction of the Grey and Arnold rivers. When passing Langdon's Ferry all sails were set, and the run to Snag Falls, off the Greymouth race-course, a distance of nearly eleven miles, was done. in less than halt an hour by the watch. The last rag j of canvas was carried away just as the j falls were reached, and such was the force of the wind that all control over the be at was lost, and it was eventually blown ashore at Cobden. A number of passengers, some of them females, and the boat-horses, were aboard during the spin. Considering the difficult navigation of tbe river, there must have been novelty and excitement in this adventure, for it is not often the sensation of bowling along at tbe rate of over 20 miles an hour is experienced." A painful and pitiable scene was witnessed at Ahaura on Wednesday, when. the down country mail coach was leaving for Greymouth. A man named Dairdson, a Swede, was brought down from Reefton under committal to the Nelson Lunatic Asylum as a lunatic. When it wbs attempted to place him in the coach, he resisted and struggled so violently that he had to be forced into the box seat, and there secured with straps. All the time the poor wretch was making piteous appeals to the bystanders for help, he being evidently under the delusion that he was about to be strangled. He was at length partially pacified, but afterwards made a desperate, although luckily ineffectual attempt to get away from Constable Jeffrey, who had charge of him, as the coach was crossing on Gough's punt- — G. B. Argus.