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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 419, 14 October 1876, Page 2

The Great Gold Rush. —The Kumara rush shows no abatement. Eighty persons proceed there by the Taupo from Auckland. AVilliam Fish, barber, of Blackburn, has been sentenced to death for the murder of the child Emily Holland. Aladame Nilsson recently forwarded a cheque for £l,OOO to the Treasurer of the Hospital for Throat Diseases, as the produce of a concert given in its behalf. The Englishman makes a piteous appeal to Tiehbornites to support Dr Kenealy s publication, stating that otherwise there is nothing before him but ruin. At Charleville. Queensland, rain is badly wanted, and there are fears of a dry summer as the heat is now great, the thermometer being 90deg. in the shade at mid-day. Information from Colonel Gordon encourages the belief that by the discovery of another branch of the Nile, a waterway into the heart of Africa, navigable for two thousand miles, may be secured. The legality of publishing bills of sale in trade publication circulars is about to be tested in Southland, where- an hotelkeeper sues a man for £2OOO damages for libel, the nature of which has something to do with giving publicity to bills of sale.