NELSON.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3972, 16 May 1870, Page 6

NELSON.

We • have files of the , Qolonist, -Examiner, and Mail to tile 10th. ( , f ■ '•jkr. J. K. Dry,"of ' Picton, is "about to 1 exhibit' in. 'Nelson a 1 marine and coast view, composed of inlaid work, embodying no ewer than 4,000 pieties of various New Zealand woods, unstained. , - , , A man, named James Craddock, fractured his leg at the South Spit. A log rolled over and fractured theliinb'.^ - The recent rumoured discovery of goldbearing stone at Hayelqck ,is reported to Be a mistake, mundic Having been mistaken for gold!' ' Another rush has 'taken 1 .place to HalfOunce' Gully, ' ' ' The, Tramway Hotel, A,rn.ey.slpe§fc, ha.4 3, narrow escape from destruction by fire. , An' empty house was burned down near Blackmore's factory. At an inquiry into the 'cirgumsfcances of the death of John Rumney, miner* at Chapman's Hotel, Giles Tevraco, the iurv returned a verdict of " accidental death, and expressed an opinion ttfat the' practice of using laths for false sets should be avoided, and that two false sets should be used'instead of one. , . , Westport continues to auflfe^ from encronohment of the sea, and the groin recently 1 erected for the purpose q( gheoking its ajfvance has been washed away, The sea fe»s advanced to within three chains of the gaol. A barn and stack at Mr. Simpson's, on the Waimea Road, were burnt down. , Mr. H. Gill, of Wakapuaka, fell from his cart, and fractured the bone of the arm. A small rush has taken place to a gully known as Burkes Gully, in the Inangauua district. The Carandinis go to Marlborongh. A company , called the Maitai and Suburban North Reefs Prospecting Company has been formed, with a proposed capital of £500, for prospecting certain grounds in the neighbourhood of Nelson. Mr/ Luckie has eiygn nqjiige fhat; he will move, "That the Government of thja pr.o : viuce, as ab present constituted, does not possess the confidence of the Council." As the hard-labour gang were at work near the Hospital, the warder found it necessary to find fault with one of the prisoners named Hans Peteraen, for shirking his work, when the man guddsnly round,; a,nd tried to cut him down with %in §pide. fortunately, the warder was quick enough to jump .on 0»9 sjdg, Letters patent have been granted, by tbg Governor to James Mackay, for an invention of a tubular lamp to burn tallow without spirit or chemical process. A Mrs. Eice has been committed to gaol by the authorities of Greymouth for drunkennaq§. wretched little children bekmgmg pq _% Wfiiftan mm Jmn^ rceftr|y leaked, sxttmg qu a lgg in $§ bush. There arc 986 dog» in the prqvjiise, whqsg owners pay 10s. a year of dog duty. Mr. Crawley, driver of the Hokitika and Grey coach, jumped down at Arohuru, and succeeded in securing a sole, weighing seven and a-half pounds, of two feet in length^ A §ljg|je §hpck of earthquake was felt on 'Friday, the^gth Ijf^y,' ftbgu^ quarter after live "o'clock a.m. Deiiuisi Maloney," % minep, with his wile, went to bed at their usual horn?, Tttg h^Sr band did not awake until 4 p.m.; and, finding that his wife had risen, he went in search of her to the kitchen, where he found her sitting, and, thinking she was asleep, put his arinsj round her neck to place her on the bed, ijui, ; $0 hisj gon^ernation ? he found »he wag quite dead, ,