POLICE OFFICE, NELSON.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 14, 11 June 1842, Page 55

POLICE OFFICE, NELSON.

Yesterday a man of the name of Very, and his two sons, were brought before the police magistrate, charged by one of the officers of the Clifford with harbouring a sailor who had run from that vessel. The sailor, whose name is Miller, was found concealed under the bed in the single apartment which forms Very's house, both father and sons being in the room at the time. The father was, or appeared to be, asleep, and the sons denied that Miller was there when the constable went to search for him. The magistrate, in consideration of its being an oiFence which had been taken notice of here for the first time, inflicted the mitigated fine of five pounds. We are very glad that the course of punishing those who assist sailori in effecting their escape haR been adopted. Sailors would be very unluely to run, if they had always to take to the bush.

Loss of the Eliza Ann. — We regret to state, that a most distressing accident took place on our river yesterday evening, by which several families in our immediate neighbourhood are thrown into the deepest state of affliction. {It appears that as the above-named vessel, a small schooner of about forty or fifty tons, was returning from a pleasure excursion in the hrbour, with a party on board consisting of sixteen persons, and just as she had breasted Pinchgut, a sudden squall laid her en her beam ends, when, melancholy to relate, she instantly sunk, fortunately, one of the seamen managed to get into the boat which was towing astern, and owing to his presence of mind, eight out of the number was saved. The schooner Lady Leigh, from Port Nicholson, was coming up at the time, but owing to the sudden darkness, she could not render them any assistance. — New South Wales Examiner, May 25.