NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 32, 20 January 1864, Page 3

NELSON.

he &ULU?n (Diggings — The Nelson Coloof the 4i\i instant, repsm the arrival at ionofVf schooner M-ary, from tte Buller, be 3rd,"witli 48 oz of gold. Seventy-rive aie at work at Lyell's Creek, and 200 ozs old were said to be at the port. A rush jpeeted of diggers from Otago, disapted with the Taieri diggings, lie adjourned public meeting respecting Buller,lioid fields, (and to which I preisly adverted), was held on the 2nd iust,, n about a hundred persons were present. Elliot was the principal speaker. The ct of the meeting was to proclaim the er under the " Goidfields Act." A resoia was passed urging the necessity of step being taken, and after a. number of ches had been made, a deputation was tinted to bring the said resolution under lutice, and enforce it on the attention of iuperintenlent of Nelson, le new wharf is rapidly approaching pletion. Id Is to be 30 feet wide, and ftetbng. and will affoid accommodation essels drawing 12 feet of watei. lesteamer Nelson, bailt in Stockton-on-i, for the trustees of the Neisora Trust I, i 3 expecied in Neison about the end of lary. She is 125 feet long; bieadth, 17 fi inches ; depth, S feet ; tonnage, old iurenient, IS7 feet, bha is sad:l. en a trip in the Tees, to .have attained a speed I knots per hour. lristy's Minstrels were stili at Nelson, inning to well- filled houses. Ie following is part of a paragraph copied the letter of a correspondent in the lon Morning Post by the Examiner : - i reference to the treatment of Maori erers, the writer justly says : — "It Id be borne in mind that the only way sal with these savages is to be firm, n they commit any of these murders, c punishment should follow at once. must be ruaJe to understand, by suffi^ ; examples, that they cannot murder iih people with impunity. If a good j example _be made at once, they will be 1 of their tendency to murder and nee; but if flattered and tampered with, iggish, smouldering, chronic system of ire will go on between the two races, till mes out into a blaze that will have to be iguished in the blood of half the race of I men." meeting was held on the eveutng of the ast., when a committee was appointed to out a prospectus for a New Zealand Mining Company. leUnrd competition for Government Pnzes takes place from the 21st to the .list ; there are seven prizes. l & reference to the murderer of Mr II at the Pelorus, Hone Pokiki, the n 'ner snya that additional evidence, cal *v still morettiongly.to Sx on Hone ;»i the guilt of Mr Grant's murder, has, jn the last few days, been obtained. An le of dress, which is known to have irorn by Pokiki on tha day of the teTi and bearing stains of blood, has discovered among his other clothing, iatleast, will be satisfactory to the jury, ■owing the accuracy of their verdict.