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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 October 1863, Page 5

The last honors were paid to the remains of Sergeant Garvey on Saturday afternoon. In the neighbourhood of the Police Barracks, in Princes-street, several stores had colors half hoisted, and at three o'clock the procession which conveyed the body to its resting place in the Cemetery, commenced its march. SubInspector Sincock, with a firing party, led the van. Next were the Provincial band playing the solemn funeral monody " The Dead March." The coffin, borne by four of the deceased's comrades, followed, and his now riderless horse, led by two policemen, was the next in succession. The police, accompanied by A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M., and Mr Commisioner Brannigan, followed, and a number of civilians who, notwithstanding the unpleasant weather, evinced their respect and sympathy by joining the procession, brought up the rear. From the feeling which pervaded all classes in regard to the circumstance which led to the death of the unfortunate Sergeant, no doubt but for the copious showers which fell during the day frequently and the slushy state of the streets, many more would have been present than those who attended the funeral.— Latiy Times, October 12. An accident, attended with severe personal injury to Mr. Mining Surveyor Coates, occurred on Tuesday last Mr. Coates, accompanied by Mr. Warden Robinson, Captain Keddell, Mr. Brodie, and Dr. Jackson, of the Dunstan, was proceeding from the Dunstan township towards the Kawarau for the purpose of settling an important mining dispute. Mr. Coates was riding slightly in advance of the party, when his horse suddenly shied at the dead carcass of a horse lying on the roadside, at a point of the road where a sharp angle occurs. Mr. Coates was encumbered with a theodolite, which was strapped on his back, and by other surveying apparatus he was carrying; and the sudden

movement of his horse caused the saddle—the girths being slack—to slip round, throwing Mr. Coates with considerable violence to the ground. As he fell, the theodolite inflicted a severe blow or thrust, causing injuries to the organs of the chest and spine. Assistance was promptly afforded, and it is to be hoped the injuries may prove of a less serious nature than was at first supposed.— lbid. The following verdict is reported in the Daily Times to have been delivered by a meeting of miners on the new rush at the Taieri: " That the place will never be a gold field. It may keep a small company of men together for a limited period, but it is as a gold diggings essentially a duffer." The reporter subsequently says, "1 would therefore not advise any person to leave Dunedin or elsewhere to try their fortunes at Nicols' Gully. There is no room for one quarter of the miners already on the ground; and it will be the business of every person who goes there to become a prospector for himself. In a few words, a gentleman of considerable experience on the New Zealand gold fields gave his opinion: —One hundred men could work out the old and new gullies in a fortnight."