NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 23]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 809, 4 May 1853, Page 3

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 23 ]

Markets. —The prices of flour and grain in the Australian markets has given firmness to our own. Good wheat commands from 6s. to 7s. a bushel, and fine flour £18 to £20 a ton, although inferior samples of both may be got at lower figures. Barley i 3 in request by the brewers and for exportation at 6s. a bushel, and oats are readily bought at ss. 6d. and 6s. Potatoes can scarcely be said to be ret in the market, but they may be quoted at £4 a ton; good hay is from £4,105. to £5. Sawn timber sells at from 12s. to 13s. per 100. Apples have been selling at 16s. per bushel. Butter is Is. to Id. per lb., cheese lid.

Fatal Accident.—On the 7th instant, a young man named John Garnett met his death at Mr. Adams' station in the Waihopi valley in the following manner. Garnett was acting as bullock-driver to Mr. Adams, and on the day in question was engaged in drawing firewood to the house, and in descending a cutting to Manuka River (or the Avon), from having failed to lock the wheels of his dray, which he properly should have done, the dray was overturned in the river, and Garnett, who had been sitting on the top of the load, was buried beneath it. When discovered, a short time after the accident had occurred, the deceased was found lying on his back quite dead, his head covered by the water, which was only a few inches deep, but the weight above him had not allowed him to extricate himself.

Dreadful Accident.—Another dreadful accident occurred in the Waimea on Sunday last, by which a man named James Livingstone was so severely burnt that his life is in most imminent danger. Livingstone, who is a widower with four young children, had gone to bed on Sunday evening, and was awakened by one of his children calling that the cottage was on fire. Jumping out of his bed, he found that such was the case, and he then lost no time in removing his children out of doors, and saving such of his property as was at hand. Recollecting, however, that he had left his watch hanging on a nail, he again entered the cottage, but before be could return the roof fell in upon him, and, by becoming entangled in the bands which bound the thatch to the rafters, he was unable to withdraw from the fire, and was in