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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 177, 28 September 1866, Page 2

The Okiu-ita Times publishes a digest of a diary kept by two men who recently explored a considerable area of back country lying- between Bruce and Jackson's Bays. They started from 7,ake AYanaka, descended the Haast River nearly lo its month, and, reaseehding it, prospected and explored the Burke and Clarke rivers, the former running into the Ilaast irom the southward, the latter from the northward, or parallel to the sea shore. In the Clarke liivcr. ■which is behind Bruce Bay, or some part of the coast in that vicinity, they obtained some favorable prospects, but the chief result of their journey was the discovery of a considerable area of grazing- country. They are now again on this side of die country, having come via Christchurch and Hokitika. and, if able, or enabled, as they deserve to be. they will probably make an attempt to reach the district in a direct line from the seaboard, or prosecute a scheme v.iiich they suppose to be capable of accomplishment — the discovery of a pass from the point winch they had previously reached, or some point more to the northward, into the Mackenzie country. Thej r describe the saddle between the Wanaka and the Haast to be incomparably easier than that between Hokitika and Christchurch, and are inclined to think that there may be an intermediate pass towards the Mackenzie country presenting no invincible difficulties. A grand banquet in honor of the introduction of horseflesh in Paris as an article of food, took place recently at Lemardc-lay's Great Room, Rue Eichelieu, M. de Quatrefages, member of the Institute, in the chair. 1 82 guests sat down to table, and all, without exception, declared that the dinner, of which the principal dishes were formed of various parts of the horse, was excellent. The Telegraph of Kiev announces that the cholera lias appeared in Southern Russia, and has fallen with great virulence on the towns of Ouman and Krementehong. The total number of guns captured by the Prussians at the battle of Saclowa, and' up to the present lime, is 180. They have also recently captured 400 waggon loads of munitions of war.

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