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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 219, 15 September 1877, Page 2

The Inangahua Herald stales that town properties in Reefton in what at present do not constitute commanding positions, are advancing iu value. A section, 33ft. frontage to Shiels street, by a depth of 99ft. was sold at auction on Saturday, and realised £9:), the purchaser being Mr Trennery. A section lower down the street was purchased by Mr Brennan for £40 lOs. The generosity of Captain Graham in giving his wrecked vessel, the ltobiua Dunlop, to the natives who assisted and befriended him and his ship-wrecked company, is taken exception to on the ground that the vessel did not belong to him. Messrs Robertson Bros., of Colac, Victoria, have just purchased a tract of country in Queensland of 1,500,000 acres, together with 8000 cattle. Their object is to obtaiu a regular supply of store cattle for fattening on their estate at Colac. ° The Taieri farmers, the Times hears, are going in largely for wheat, and the probability is that there will be close upon twice as much ground under that crop this year as there was last. Upon the Henley Estate alone, there are 1000 acres in wheat, 600 of which are up aud lookiug well. " r The sentence of the Courtis," said Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate, to °a notorious drunkard, "that you be confined in gaol for the longest period the law will allow, aud I hope you will spend the time iu cursing whiskey." "Be jabers I will, and Porter, too," was the answer.