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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 58, 8 March 1878, Page 2

The O.li. Argns says:— The man who was arrested by the local police of Reef ton in the early part of last week -ou suspicion of being Powell an absconder from Nelson gaol has been liberated, it having been shown conclusively that he>as not the Simon Pure. A late Dunediu telegram says -. — At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd inst. a girl named Bella Bell, while gathering firewood near the railway station at Blueskin, found a box with a label on the lid, on which was written in large letters the following words :—" lf you find my motherless darling, I pray for Jesus' sake bury it in a true Catholic way." The girl immediately reported the matter to the constable stationed in the district. On going to the place he found a soap box as described- It was tied systematically with small twine, and on opening it the constable found the body of a male child in a perfect state. There were no marks of violence on the body, and the child was dressed in a neat and respectable manner. It is supposed that the box was left there by a passenger by the evening train on Monday. At a late meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, Mr J. C. Frith said that during the last four years, pear, plum aud cherry trees, aud hawthorn bushes, had suffered Terry severely from a pest resembling small leeches, which infested the trees. The effect of this blight had beeu to almost destroy the trees, and to materially affect the amount of fruit obtained from the trees. He was pleased to notice, however, that the blight had greatly decreased this year owing to the appearance of a small beetle slightly larger than a ladybird, with white bars oa the back, which destrpyed the leeches.