NELSON.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1108, 10 December 1869, Page 3

NELSON.

PPpi -Thuesday, December 9. Thb l^ld sales at Wangapeka are still unsetil^v The diggers are standing out, and iwas^vto yjdlow .'the survey to go on. Warden Broad sent sAveyers, who were stopped by the limners and pushed back by one JNoble^ if JL warrant was issued for his apprehenfibn, on a charge of, assaulting the wirveybr, and the police went to apprehend turn j but Tibbie was protected by tlie digj^_«, and, th6 police had to return as they went. No violence was offered, but the 'miners express their determination to hold tne ground.. Mr. Domett, Chief Land Commissioner, has bepn instructed by the General Government to enquire as to the matters set forth in a petition sighed by 700 miners and other inhabitants, as to the validity of the sales of. land recently made, and whether the paid land I s within the. proclaimed boun- ' dairy ofthe South West gold field. ■ The state of affairs is considered critical, and, meantime, the progress of the place is