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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 253, 24 October 1881, Page 2

TheHawera correspondent of the Auckland Herald wrote on the 12th inat.;— l hare just heard that Mr Eolleiton waa insulted by Te Whiti on bis late visit to Parihaka. Viaitora up the coast tell me that on the road from Opunake to Parihaka natiye youths are to be seen, generally mounted, wh» are watching ail our movements. People generally will commend the Native Minister on his last act of forbearance in condescending to visit the prophet as a laßt resource. No one can now say that Te Whitihas not had every •bance to remove any wrong impression which may have been caused through the interpretation of his late bounceable speech. If the Native Minister waa insulted, after Te Whiti's knowing that we are making every preparation to maintain the dignity of the law, then the Ministry mast be backed np by the whole of the colony. Such insults under such circumstances are not to be borne by us 8B a people. The volunteers, I hear, are to hold Opunake. Every available constabu'ary man has been sent to the front, Eahotu and Pungarehu. Major Stapp, commanding the Taranaki Volunteer Militia, is to-day arming all the Bettlera aloDg the Mountain Eoad. between here and New Plymouth. Active preparations are being made at Opunake for local defence. The small-pox scare (says the Star) has reached the Thames natives, and for the last few days Dr Payne has been actively engaged vaccinating the residents of Kairaerangi and Kirikiri. It is considered the fashion just at present to have the vaccination mark upon the arm, which is regarded by many of the younger people as a sort of tattooing, and dusky maidens are to be met with who dolight to show their well formed arms, with the mark upon them, to admiring strangers and admiring friends. Yet the old people are not averse to be operation, S3 the eurgeon has several patients on hig Hal over 70 years of age, and one aged 94, At Stepney, London, tht crowd were so furioas with tb« grandmother of a girl who committed «uicide because the old lidy would not let her w«ar tur new clothes, that the police had to interfere stranuously to pravent the incoming coach containing this Spartan ancestress being overturned. All sorts of ref nse was flung at her windows. An unprecedentedlylergeretnrnof gold has been obtained says the Sydney Echo, from a small parcel of pyrites B?nt to England for treatment by the Reform Gold Mining Company, Lucknow, near Orange. From 18 cwt of stone per Cotopaxi no less than 245 ozs gold and 56 oza silver were obtained, for which the company have received net value credit to the amount of £850 4s lOd, enabling them to declare a dividend of £9 per share of £25, making some £46 per Bbare paid in dividends since Ist June last. There are only ninety shares in the company which are of coarse at an encrmous premium, as, in addition to the large return now to hand — probably the heaviest yield of gold per ton yet obtained in any part of Australiaseveral more shipments, supposed to be equally rich, are on their way to England for treatment. This rich shoot, which is dipping almost perpendicularly in the company's ground, at present Bhowß no sign of diminishing in wealth. It is stated that a Sydney firm has offered £25,000 for the mine, but the shareholders are not inclined to part with it for that amount. Nearly 1600 names have been add«d to tha Dunedm electoral roll since the last one was printed.