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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 51, 28 February 1877, Page 2

We {Post) are informed by a gentleman just arrived from the Mount Rangitoto silver mine, tbat the new Prince of Wales lode, which is 45 feet in width, is turning out excellently, and that another tunnel is being driven at a depth of 1 10 feet, intended to be carried 350 feet. Altogether, the prospects of the undertaking never looked brighter than at present. The Cromwell people are taking steps to separate from Vincent County, and have a separate county. The following resolution was passed at a crowded meeting:— "That seeing the member for the Dunstan has been making promises, as member of the City Council, that he has not fulfilled, he no longer retains our confidence as our representative in the Assembly, and that he be called on to resign his seat therein." A sheep breeder in the Wairarapa has' boiled down 1 16*0 sheep. The wool was scoured by MrTyer, of Ngahauranga, at whose establishment the sheep were boiled down. It was sold in London at an average price of Is Bd. The tallow fetched 41s 6d per cwt. The legs, &c, were sold in Wellington. The proceeds of ail this amounted to the nice little sum of £611 8s 2d, or something near a peuny over 10s per head. A WeUington butcher, saw the sheep on the station, and although much in the want of mutton, offered only 10s per head for a p'ck of 300. Dr Dix, in the Church Review, discovers that the music of the Moody and Sankey I melodies is derived from the ballads of forty years ago.