NELSON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 605, 21 May 1851, Page 4

NELSON.

[From the Nelson Examiner, May 3.] Interference of the Natives with the New BvOAd to the Wairau. —The natives living in the neighbourhood of the Pelorus have carried their threats into execution, and have stopped the men employed in cutting the preliminary line for the new Wairau road. No disturbance was created, for on being ordered to desist, the men quietly gave over work. As Sir George Grey promised, when in Nelson, to take instant measures to nurchase the whole tract of country lying be-

tween Nelson and the Wairau, it is to be hoped that this will be effected during the winter, so that the road may be commenced early in the spring. Death of Patch. —We regret to have to state that this very excellent horse died this morning of inflammation of the bowels. He was in training fora match with Mr. Clifford’s Glendon, for £lOO, intended to have been run on the 29th instant, and for a Trial Stakes, to have come off on the same day. The match of course is at an end, but as the mare Brunette is training for the Trial Stakes the public we think would be glad to see her» and Glendon try their speed together, and so not wholly lose the day’s promised amusement.