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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 13, 15 January 1875, Page 4

The steeplechase horse Butcher Boy has been sold by his owner, Mr R. E. M'Rae, for a hundred guineas. The cook of a steamer going up tbe Thames to Ohinemuri recently was throwing a bucket of rubbish overboard, when he slipped over after it, and was drowned. . A recent free immigrant, by the ship Nelson, was picked up drunk by tbe Dunedin police, and there was foupd on him a Bank draft for £50, £12 infold, some silver, and a heavy gold watch and chain. A miner named Charles Falk drowned himself in three or four feet of watery iv a dam at Stafford Town on Sunday. \ ■ An inquest was held, and a verdict of temporary insanity returned. The deceased bad a deposit-receipt of £100, and £22 18s in cash in his hut. The Melbourne Telegraph says: — Efforts have been made since his conviction to obtain a passage, for the murderer Sullivan to New Zealand. On Saturday the authorities endeavored to find a captain or owner that would accept bim as a passenger, but were in all cases unsuccessful. A letter from John King, a miner, well known in Tuapeka, and who is at Cooktown, has beeu placed at tbe disposal of the looal journal. He does not givo a very rosy acoount of the Palmer diggings. It had been raining incessantly four weeks, and a large number of miners, whose emaciated appearance deterred many at Cooktown from proceeding up country, were returning from the diggings. He also says that although a considerable amount of gold had been obtained by some parties of men, the storekeepers and packers got the lion's share of it, as provisions and carriage to the diggings are frightfully high. The accounts Mr King gives ar§ anything but encouraging. " If," says the G. R. Argus, "we were to receive a, telegram from the Palmer or any other distant place tbat on one day 15,651 ozs of gold had been Shipped, lhe produce of a goldfield, thero would be tremendous excitement among our miners, and a regular stampede would take place. And yet the thing iB done nearer home, for yesterday the Otago took away from Greymoutb, 7489 ozs of gold, and Hokitika 3192 ozs, and 5000 ozs are ""awaiting shipment here by the Tararua, which is expected to arrive as we write. And this is in addition to the large . that havo recently been " >made. Although it is usual for more gold to come in during the Christmas holidays than at other time, the faot that a considerable proportion of tbe late shipments comes from the. lnangahua reefs," may be regarded as a very healthy sigp of tbe condition of the more permanent branch of our naming • industry, and should impart additional *y<CMiftdenee amongst capitalists."