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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 59, 2 March 1876, Page 2

Young and Paul, two of Smat's victims, are now quite out of danger. Young is able to walk about town without assistance, ancl Paul daily takes exercise in the haspital grounds. Very little change takes place with Reidal — he is better one day and worse the next. He is quite sensible, and hopes are entertained that he will yot recover. Young has completely lost the use of his right arm. An awfully sudden death occurred at the Arahura on Friday. An old man named Croft, who has for some time past been engaged in general work for tbe settlers, was found outside his hut, dead, in a pool of blood. The body was warm when found. It was supposed that death was caused by the bursting of a blood vessel. The Evening Post says : — A rather amusing incident occurred at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Two men, each named Robinson, were charged, the first with drunkenness and lighting, and the other with not attending properly to his wife. The latter case was called on first, but the wrong Robinson was put into the dock, ile expected to be charged with drunkenness, and when Mr Crawford read over to him a list of cruelties inflicted by him on bis wife, he looked bewildered, and was evidently under the impression that our worthy Magistrate had suddenly become deranged. After listening for some time to the interesting information tbat bis wife had sworn that he was an habitual drunkard, whose only pleasure consisted in beating ber and threatening ber life, he seemed utterly horrified to learn what a villain he was, But when he heard how he bad brutally kicked his wife because she would not give him a pint of beer for bis supper he could stand it no longer, and he yelled, " But I haven't got a wife.' : Mrs Robinson bore testimony to the fact that he was not her husband, and the right man was then put in his place. Two men, so the local paper states, are now kept constantly cutting thistles on the Tuapeka railway line. The growth of this noxious weed is so strong that an individual recently remarked that unless the G-ovenament kept them down a deviation would have to be made so as to avoid the ground they most frequent. A servant girl was severely injured by a cow goring her at Mount Albert, Auckland. The cow's horn wag driven through tbo clothing, some inches into the flesh at the back part of the girl's thigh. The cow raised the girl Beveral feet frcm the ground, inflicting a doep wound, and, but for the presence of two meD, would probably have killed her. The Otago Daily Times says: — The account of the opening of the February wool sales, which is contained in our cable telegrams from London, is not very explicit. From private telegrams, however, which have been received from some of our leading mercantile firms, we are in a position to supplement the information which is couvoyed by Reuter'a special message. Good fleece and merino wool has advanced in price, and has come up to something very near the quotations for this class of wool for February, 1875, after whioh time, it will be remembered, there was a serious decline in price. Faulty descriptions from all the colonies are, however, not readily ealeable, and are quoted at even reduced rates. It will be of importance to our local woolgrowers to mention that the clips both of Victoria and New South Wales will be far short of the usual number of bales., in itself this circumstance will, in all probability lead to the disposal of New Zealand wools at full ratee,

The Luna was to leave Wellington on Tuesday night for The Brothers, taking a suppij of timber and other material for the buildings in connection with the lighthouse about to be erected on one of those inlets, such as the dwelling-house for tbe light-keeper, &c. An information bas been laid against a young woman for destroying plants in the Botanical Gardens at Wellington. A boy named John Shiel was brought before the R.M. at Wellington on Tuesday as an incorrigible. His parents said they could do nothing with him, and he was sent to the training ship at Auckland for tbree years. I Mr and Mrs Wiltshire were to begin tbeir feat of walking 250 miles in 100 hours at Welliugton on Tuesday nigbt. The amount of Customs revenue collected at Wellington during the month of February, 1876, was £18,955, as compared witb £12,223 in February, 1875. A telegram in the Southern Cross of the 2Gth ultimo, dated -Russell, 25th February, says : — The natives report that the bows of a 100-ton vessel, and a cask and a pair of trousers have been washed up on tbe beach at Whangaruru, and are causing great excitement. The ZBrisbane Courier displays a profound knowledge of the geography of New Zealand, and tells some Mun-chausen-like stories concerning it. The following is an amusing specimen : — The Taranaki, bound from Nelson to Taranaki, passed through 150 miles of icebergs, aud some ol the passengers were frostbitten. ' The Marquis of Waterword (says Harpers Weekly} is said to have offered a railway company 25,000 dollars if they would allow bim to witness the spectacle of two engines dashing into one another at full speed from opposite directions on the same line. The offer was declined. The Aire aud Calder Navigation Company,' being of a more sporting temper, backed ono of tbeir compartment screw steamers against the most powerlul of an opposing company's tug boats. Each steamer was to be attached to the other by powerful hawsers, and at a given signal the two, with full steam on, were to start in opposite directions, to test whicb possessed the stronger towing power. Hundreds of spectators assembled on the banks of the liumber to witness tbe novel struggle, and betting generally ruled in favor of the compartment boat. But on tbe two being started, the tug boat at once showed herself tbe stronger, and, after a smart tussel, succeeded in towing the compartment boat a distance of upwards of 100 yards. [For continuation of News see fourth page. - )

Tho native chief, Eapana, from tbe Thames, is on a visit to the Waiwera hot springs, and enjoying the baths much. He stays in the hot for an hour at a time, and sings out * kapai kapai.' He is much pleased with the place, and says the "Waiwera, or Maori doctor, is better than all the pakeha medicines. He has a little house to himself, and is as happy aa a, king,