NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 185, 8 May 1847, Page 3

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner.]

An accident of a most melancholy natuie occurred here on Thursday pvening. A bullock, intended for slaughter, had been driven into the town, but, from its wild state, could not be got into the railed enclosuie adjoining Mr. Bird's sbop, in Trafalgar street, and was therefore driven into the open space in the rear of his premises. As the beast stood near Dr. Cooper's fence, a man named Morgan approached from the opposite corner, at the back of Mr. Fell's warehouse, for the purpose of shooting it, and while moving forward with the gun balanced in his hand, the muzzle pointing rather towards the row of cottages running up fri m Bridge street, which bounds the open sj ace on the east side, it suddenly went off, and lodged its contents in the lower part of the bowels of a young man named Sidebotham, who was crossing the space in an oblique direction from the cottages. The poor fellow, when struck, gave a loud scream, and fell on his face. He was immediately conveyed to his lesidence in Bridge street, and was attended by most of the faculty in Nelson. It was conjectured that the ball had passed through his intestines, and lodged beneath the skin behind. After lingering in great pain until yesterday morning, he died about eleven o'clock. — Nelson Examiner, May 1.

Lime Kiln. — We observe that Mr. Strong has erected a lime kiln on the Haven Road, at Green Point, for the purpose ot burning the Massacre Bay stone, which is very superior to any which has yet been found on this side of the bay.