NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 35, 10 March 1863, Page 2

NELSON.

(From the Examiner.) 1 A small number of natives from Waikato and fsai 'aranaki have alreadv crossed Cook's Strait for is. he diggings at the Buller. They announce that jcke irge numbers from those districts may be looked jfor jr shortly. The " native difficulty "is about to ial c escend upon Nelson. It may be that the Waiato men will prove the quietest and most orderly fme: f diggers; and it may be that the European |esl opulation now established on the river will isti eceive glad ly any accession to their numbers in so \ _ emote a distriet. But it will not do for tho Mm uthorities to trust to the chapter of accidents. * ?hey should he beforehand in organising governqent for the place, and providing against possible ollision, misunderstanding, or ill will. Tho sst< pproaeh of a large bodv of natives requires the ist Superintendent to proclaim and carry into effect . n( j he Goldfields Act on the West Coast goldfield— 8 n t course which the prospects of the Buller , n i liggings would of themselves justify. At present ' here i- not a single just ; ce ofthe peace or a single i lolieotn .u on the W__t Corst. * ei Fatal Accidents. — The Canterbury papers, pP 1 •eceived by the 1.--.t mail, speak of an accident to vhich recently occurred to Mr M'Murdoeh, of the foi tVaitaki, a gentleman who formerly resided in the are Watere. Mr M'Murdoeh was looking at a young IQi lorse being handled, and got a kick from it in the aha ireast, which caused his almost instant death. A | a y lotcd character on the Waitaki River, " Jemmy he Ne. lie," ali-i Jame- Sanderson, had been un- | m ' lors.d while crossing the Waitaki, ancl drowned. v^» Y Earthquake. — Some tremulous shocks ofjM . icrthquakc were felt here on Monday morning, ff* y ictwcen one o'clock and a quarter p st, but, to Iff •" how how sl'T-ht were what we term c Vithquakes, Bn®--10 damage of any kind was sustained, whilst a gie c arge majority of our inhabitants did not evesßH enow that such a thing had taken place until v 1 fl ' \£ ormed of it at a later hour. ffl By the brigantine Abbey, which arrived from g Melbourne on Monday, 23rd ult , after a length- my-xv mod passage of nineteen days. We learn that g vhen about twelve miles below West Wanganui, G he master seen a fore and aft schooner high and W T^ Y-y upon the shore ; it was flying a white flagH vith something inj the centre, which, from thisff'tc listancc, the master of the Abbey could not make gßtn; mt, but it had hoisted no flag of distress. He Were ilso saw smoke rising, as from a fire, in a gully with dose to the craft. The wind was blowing easterly Eri tnd the sea calm. The master of the Abbey says _j>hat he could not have ventured any nearer witb [^ _ lis vessel, and that he had no boat in which be >ould have attempted landing. Another fore-and- - — 1. 1 schooner was also se. j irom the brigantine off of t Reparation Point on Sunday afternoon, standing ed _ eastward ; this, in all probability, would be the nd ] Necromancer. Tlie schooner Gipsy, tho onlj Was Nelson schooner that' haa been in that direction! e*nt ; irrived in port yesterday afternoon, after a shoit ibn-_ un of forty-eight hours from the Buller Rivcf- *?" S othing was seen by her of the stranded vcsie' it d: nentioncd by the master of the Abbov; Uy |