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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 46, 7 October 1863, Page 5

We enjoyed yesterday a " pretty considerable some" of a Nor'wester, or as nautical people describe it, u rather to the west of that." It had a most vivifying effect; the mud which had been so long lying in wait in our streets, having got a dry coat on, allowed itself to be taken on the " wings of the wind" into everybody's eyes, noses, and shops. The rude wind rendered '* crinoline" a source of difficulty to the fair wearers, and further amused itself by sportively picking up and carrying off any " unconsidered trifles," such as weatherboards, sheets of galvanized iron, &c. We are, however, obliged to it for carrying away the unpleasant odor arising from the nativescented fascines, whicb, although necessary evils, promise in the event of sultry weather, to become intolerable nuisances.— Southland News, October 1.

The hull of the Highland Lassie has, we are informed, drifted into the deep water of the New River Channel. She had been previously pretty thoroughly dismantled by her purchasers; it seems that her masts were left standing till they had strained her timoers beyond repair.—Southland News, Oct. 1.