The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 138, 13 June 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877.

Thb bad weather experienced here last night appears to hare prevailed generally throughout the colony. The wires to the north of Masterton were blown down, temporarily interrupting communication betwaen Auckland and Wellington, and between Hokitika and Christchurch they are alao down. The line through the Buller Valley, however, ia in good working order, and by that route wa learn that the gale was very severely felt at Greymouth last night, and that there ia a very heavy flood in the river, which is running level with tho wharf. One of the ■wires between Nelson and Havelock is broken, so that only one has been available for the transmission of messages the whole of the day. At a meeting of the Motueka Relief SubCommittee held on Friday last it was resolved— " That this committee in bringing their duties to a close would wish to express their hearty thanks to the Committee and the public of Nelson andthesurrounding districts for the very liberal and generous efforts made by them to alleviate the distress and losses of the unfortunate settlers of the Motueka, Riwaka, Pangatotara, and Ngatimoti districts caused by the flood in February last." At a special meeting of the City Council held last night it waa unanimously resolved on the motion of Cr. Waters seconded by Cr. Webb that His Worship the Mayor be appointed to represent the Council at the conference of Municipal delegates to be held in Wellington. It was also resolved on the motion of Councillor Webb seconded by Councillor Gray :— « That the delegate appointed to attend & meeting. of representatives of municipalities be instructed to support an application to the Ministry or otherwise for powers to be granted to the municipalities to exercise some control over the expenditure of funds at present deducted from the subsidies payable to municipalities." A settler at Collingwood who came over on a visit to Nelson on Monday has furnished us with a most melancholy list of casualties that have occurred in Golden Ray within the last two or three weeks. In the first place he reports that a man named JSlisha Ellis, who came out as an immigrant in the Fernglen is missing under circumstances that leave no room for doubt that he has been drowned. He was desirous of crossing the Aorere river from the right bank, and applied to John Bain, the owner of a canoe for the loan of it, which was refused on the' ground that the river was iv too dangerous a state to be crossed. He said, however, that he had made up his mind to go across, even if he had to swim, whereupon the canoe was lent to him, and since then nothing has been seen or head of him. A man named Clark, who was a storekeeper at Siateford, has been missing since Sunday, the 3rd instant, and although several parties had been out in search of him, they had not succeeded in discovering him up to last Saturday. In the Taknka Valley a serious accident, which, it is feared, must have a fatal termination', has happened to Mr Beadmore, a settler there,' I who was riding home when his horse shied] ! throwing him with such violence as to pro---dune concussion of the spine. Dr Tilby ' attended him, but, we are informed, has pronounced his recovery to be hopeless. Mrs Heywood, an old and respected settler in the same Valley, died in an awfully sudden manner last week. She was sitting at tea with her family, when, without the slightest warning, she fall back dead in her chair. I Our informant says that ou bringing over I this gloomy report to Nelson, he found that death had also been busy among Golden Bay settlers who had come over here for medical advice. Oliver Besgrove, late a resident near Collingwood, who had visited Nelson to consult the doctor concerning an affection of the throat, died iv the hospital a few days ago, anda Mrs M'Kenzie, another Collingwood settler, and the mother of a large family of little children, who had come over on account of her heath, he also found was recently dead. So depressing a story as that he had to tell we have not listened to for a lopg time, A bui-l-ding that has the reputation of being the oldest in Nelson was sold to-day for removal, in order to make room for a new one more suitable for the purposes required We refer to the German Church at the back of the gaol, which was originally bnilt by Mr Tuckett, the New Zealand Company s survej'or, and occupied by him for some years. It was afterwords used as a school, and somewhat later was presented by Mr Tuckett to the Germans as a church, in which capacity it has been used by them for tfec last quarter of a century, until old age I

has told so much upon it as to necessitate the erection of & new building, the contract for which has been taken by Mr Scott. CoNsiDBEABiE anxiety was felt this morning with regard to the safety of the signalman, as it was generally known that a brig had come down the Bay last night, and was visible thia morning at daylight off the Moutere Bluffs, yet no notice was taken of it at Britannia Heights uutil noon to day, when however, greatly to the relief of those who feared that some accident had occurred to the look-out man, the signal was hoisted. He should be more considerate of the feelings of the public in future, and not alarm them in this unnecessary manner. It is scarcely too much to expect that a vessel should be signalled somewhat earlier than five hours from the time of her being first sighted l( t..™ 1. J. TT «._ « .. ' ..