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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 35, 7 February 1876, Page 2

Af t-elbgr-ani^ fi-om Brisbane Yjri'/ithe Herald. says-:— Six hands ; ''Jejffc . Ciiarleville on New Tear's Day fbr the Nive Downs Station,; all under the. influence**, of liquor, and taking more ; witn < them. The heat was "intense, ; and they finished thegrog early on their journey ; subsequently, they ' suffered-vinnbh* /from* thirst, and during the night ; ;the party separated to search for water ; the dogs they had with them alldied except one, which was killed for its. blood. ;-A man named Larkins" found Vater ' on the 2nd* two others, NoUn and Schtriidt, reached water 'on the 4th, half mad. The search party found another of/-the-men, named Q-feen, dead ; and a- fifth mau, named "Wilson, was discovered alive, but covered with ants" and flies, but he died soon afterwards. ■ V Thb "Burrdngong Chronicle relates fche following :*^-Mr Hancock, while sitting near 1 his rod and -float} at the Burrowa river, on New Years' Day, while the sun was rising, "felt rather sleepy, he hawing attended fco his rod. and. float carefully all night. He was,-how-ever, soon brought to a state of wakefulness*by a strange hissing noise which somewhat startled him, and :on* opening his eyes he suddenly opened his mouth, and for a time each particular hair on his head stood upon an' end, while a dampiy, cold perspiration distilled itself all over his body. A. large brown sDake, seven feet long, having taken up a position between Mr Hancock's knees was the cause of all the alarm. His snakeship was sitting on a few coils of the tail end of his body> with the rest erect; and iis head^level with the jFacef of our worthy angler, bent evidently on giving Mr Hancock -a quick passage over the other river. ,>. Mr Hancock was awake then, but ho felt at a loss to know tiow to proceed, -but only for-a moment, as the nature of the case admitted of very little delay. To atr tempt to move away was .shee? madness. What was to be done? Yes, Mr Hancock had it, and with the most heroic pluck aud presence of mind, he seized the monster by the.* throat , close to the head, and there held ifc afc arm's length. „th was wifch the greatest difficulty that the snake could be prevented from coiling its body round the: arms, legs and neck of Mr Hancock, each of which the reptile attempted. ** /Novi** came the difficulty. What's to be done with this caught snake? Mr 'Hancock had. no way of keeping it, at.home;. and no desire that, way ; what's to *be;,dQne wifch it? Oh happy thought— drown I the, wretch 1 The thought, was*; no sooner conceived than executed, but the brute^didn'fc seem to drown well. 7An employe afc tbe 7 Ghrislcb urbh Railway Station, named Burn, who haß been working for some time past at Is au hour wages, has just succeeded to on ingome of several thousands a year. It would seem that bavins.,. some, years j ago, contracted what his father termed a misalliance, he, though being an pnly | child, was disinherited, and after a time he came out/to this province,, where he has' had to rough it ; pretty lard. Whether bis father relented or not.it it? difficult .to. jay, but /he; ;'- 'q'ertainjys destroyed the will which disinherited bis only: 'child, and *-he.?.die'dji before making a new one. • Tbe 'Bon-hthua Buooeeds'*to the -whole of the property laa heir'at-law. , r ;

( k Mr Cope||, t a" ©Htleman whollcen% fb^dp^MuSand md4mi I fo||he ftkaflp in. the jfneralfiiec^ojl. I isf fays |® Mapffla. -Ttme^mt he\M 1 ir &£ v y WbtiWorMy some of Bl wonlcll ' %mk^k*W following as trustworthy. vln addressing a lew of his partisans in the main street of Arrowtown an evening or two after the election, his remarks are thus ' fchiplacte^sed by a corrppbndenteofttlie , .. lAnrAw ■•— . The .Mcchin^U.tSi \ bawdiness of His. utterances reminded one strongly of a Billingsgate pothouse - -Fraiuing, -'lutMsi'fi^ r^)y m ''eslsiSlSl' w iil&-'"■ f jresh^iujbraud coming from a would-be M.'Htß.; made his presumption all the y .nio'ce.-conspicu'^is. Under these circumstances, it is gratirying™"that"" the electors .Have:- prbperiy * httmil.iatgd }^his pretender to public-favors. f j Some time ago we received a telegram that Tqngar;iro, the safety valve pf yl^^ea^ had clcjlfll^^ Thißys known In batty etr ad iti^^ heavy , snaEtßr.;;7 We observe- tbat the people are awaking or being awakenod to the emergency, and tbe Weekly Mercury, published at Napier, speaks thu sly (oxp. dqmeßtiq '■. ofraugemeu.t-s-?- , ■** Householders might do worse' th'^np tnke warning by this,, a.n d secure .their , 'crockery/ 'Platefiland disbei Bhoufd ,f frc l placed fltit/on.flhely ( ea and not ( on tbeir edges as is commonly the practice, and * take Bhould be fastened in front of Bhelveß^cintainingubottles;V;r:A^fl/ -■!