FINDING OF THE BODIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 99, 29 June 1866, Page 2

FINDING OF THE BODIES.

At 3 o'clock this afternoon a messenger galloped into Nelson, with the startling intelligence that the bodies of the murdered men had been found. They were found about 11 o'clock this morning, on the side of the second creek this side of the Heringa. Kempthorne was shot through the head. One body was covered with stones ; the others were exposed. We understand that constable Flett was the discoverer of the bodies. The camp party - may be expected in town with the bodies this evening.

We are requested to state that the case Carter v. Sherwood, published in our paper yesterday, should have been Carter v. Edwards, tbe latter representing the police force. The monthly Assembly Ball, which was to have been held this .vening, is postponed for a week.' Several alterations are in course of being made in the House of Representatives, situate in the Government Buildings. The reporter's gallery has been made the sanctum sauctorum for the fair sex, and members of the fourth estate will now be accommodated with a more convenient row of seats in a gallery in course of erection immediately behind the Speaker's chair, and immediately opposite the strangers' galleryMi*. Fox says : — Heavy as our losses were, the Tauranga campaign was a complete success, in a strategical point of view. Tauranga was in fact the harbor of Waikato, and the only harbor it had. It was through it that the rebels in the latter district received supplies, and ifc was the easiest route by Waikato. Thompson was well aware of this, aad used every exertion he could to keep this important post open for himself. He is said to have acknowledged that its occupation by us was the greatest disaster which had befallen the rebels. A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times states, that the voyage from Panama to England may be made in five days' shorter time via New York than by the West India mail steamers via St. Thomas; aud also at a lower charge. The Government, we observe, give notice that persons desirous of obtaining Surveyors' licenses under the Native Lauds Act, are to forward their applications, accompanied by testimonials, to the Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court at Auckland. We learn from late Otago papers that the sheep iu that province, on the lst January last, numbered 1,344,721, giving an increase of 139,270 over last year. The Otago News Letter has the following on "white-washed" bankrupts: — "T. writes to us to enquire whether we do not consider it rather a 'cheeky' proceeding for an insolvent in future, to give a ball only some ten days or a fortnight before he calls his creditors together. To this we answer that everything depends upon thepoint from whicli you regard it. No doubt the confectioner who supplied the supper would say it was all right — so long as he got his money. The truth is, the remedy for these things is largely in the hands of business men, who should strive to inculcate a feeling of " wholesome shame " in those with whom they transact business. Were this the case, 'white-washed' bankrupts would not, as at present in Duuedin, often have the advantage over, and hold their heads higher than twenty-shillings-in-the-pound-traders. Cognovi hominem tanquam te. The case brought under our notice by M. T. is the third we have heard of." The Herald understands that the Taranaki Petroleum Company have received advice from Mr, Doyue thafc he has purchased for them in Melbourne a first-class boring machine, fit for a depth of 400 or 500 feet, and it may be expected here by the first opportunity. A house has been erected at the Sugar Loaves for the accommodation of the workmen, so that boring operations can commence immediately on the arrival of the machine. The right to sink for petroleum on the sea beach fronting Native Reserve No. 1 and the Mission Station was sold by auction, by Mr. F. U. Grledhill, on Saturday last. The grouud was divided into three lots: 1. All the beach between Native Reserve No. 1 and high water mark ; 2. The beach in front of the western half of the Mission Station ; 3. The beach in front of the eastern half of the Mission Station. Each lot was 100 feet wide. Lot No. 1 was bought for Messrs. Hoyt, Brothers of Dunedin, for £105 ; lot No. 2by Mr. J. F. Carter, for £100 ; lot No. 3, also by Mr. Carter, for £60. — Herald, June 16. The letters of our (D. S. Cross) Tauranga correspondent contain some interesting particulars with reference to the progress of that settlement. We learn that arrangements

are being made for -rewarding the Arawas, who have so consistently fought on our side during the war. William Thompson has written to the tribes in the. Bay of Plenty, warning them against the Taranakis, who are going about the country, seeking to rouse their countrymen by superstition to one more effort against the Europeans. One very disquieting statement from the East Coast is, that the natives have warned off a surveying party engaged in the vicinity of Tauranga. The Hokitika correspondent of the Press | says :— Mr. Dobson, Provincial Engineer, has returned from the Grey after a fruitless search for his son's remains. A handkerchief, the property of Mr. G. Dobson, has been found, and sufficient data to leave no doubt as to his sad fate. The perpetrators of this villainous deed, supposed to be Kelly and Sullivan, are known to the police, both here and every other place in the Southern Island, except Nelson. The only fear entertained by the police is thafc they, have managed to escape to the Nelson province where they are not known. We cau only hope that justice will overtake them. The grave of Mr. Fulloon, the late victim to Maori barbarity at Whakatane is utterly unprotected, and almost unmarked from the surrounding ground. It needs but, we are sure, to be known that such is the case, to cause the appeal now being made. by Captain Fraser and other personal friends of the deceased gentleman to be at onee readily responded to by the Auckland public. Mr. Fulloon. died a martyr in the cause and service of his country, and the least that the people of this province can do, amongst whom he was born and reared, is to erect a suitable tablet to his memory, and to secure his last restiDg-place from desecration. At the time of his death Mr. Fulloon held a captain's commission in the militia. He was the first aud only free aud accepted mason in whose veins ran Maori blood, and was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge in this city. His death and the manner of it, are matters " familiar to us as household words." The martyrdom of Volkner and Fulloon did more to crush the rebellion than the ten regiments of the Queen. The names and memories of these two men will ever be held in reverence and affection by the people of this province. — S. Cross. One of the most serious accidents that has ever happened in Auckland, took place recently, by the explosion of the boiler on the premises of Mr. C. Hawkeswood, ironfounder, Chapel-street. One man, named David Cragg, was killed on the spot, and five other persons, including two children who were in an adjoining yard, were seriously injured. It will be seen by a letter we (D. S. Cross) publish from Waikato that Takerei te Rau has been making a tour of the settlements of the friendly natives in central Waikato — for what purpose is not known, certainly for no good. The latest news is that all the gumdiggers are leaving the district, aud betaking themselves to the Upper Waipa. At about seven o'clock last evening a most brilliant meteor appeared in the southern sky, falling from north-east to south, and disappearing behind Mount Nelson. The meteor appeared like a gigantic ball of green tire, succeeded by a long traiu of reddish light. It was one of the most beautiful appearances of the kind which we can remember to have seen — H. T. Mercury, June 8. Yesterday evening, about ten minutes past 8 o'clock, a brilliant meteor was observed to fall from a point a little iu advance of the Milky Way, iu the north-eastern sky. As it neared the earth it burst into several pieces, illuminating the horizon with a pale blue light, for a few seconds. From the point where the observer stood, George-street North, the fragments seemed to fall in the upper part of the N.E. Valley.— O.D. Times, June 12. A new use has been fouiid for the ironsand, as a burnisher of steel and iron. Mr. Cunningham, of Auckland, has been using it in a knife-cleaner for some time past,. and has fouud that its effects are greater than that of emery, or anything yet used for that purpose.