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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 83, 11 June 1866, Page 2

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Joseph Newell was fined 10s. for drunkenness. M. S. G. Mee, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for stealing a pair of boots, valued at 205., from H. Jellyman. Robertson Randall was fined £3, and ordered to pay £5 in addition, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, for fraudulently obtaining his passage, by the steamer Rangitoto, from Melbourne to Nelson. Mary Ann Turner was remanded on a charge of stealing a watch, pair of cotton socks, and two collars, value £4, from George Marshall, of Toi-Toi Valley. It appears from recent Government Returns, tbat in 1864, the number of births in New Zealand was 6,501, or 3,334 males, and 3,167 females. The marriages in the same year were 1,878. The immigration was 20,931, and the emigration 12,404. At the recent Invereargill Assizes, after an interval of four months, Mr. Justice Chapman, had only four cases, three of whicii were larcenies, and one cattle stealing. Night schools under the management of competent masters have been established in Dunedin. The Auckland Herald suggests tliat New Zealand flax coarsely dressed, would make an excellent material for tho manufacture of bags and sacks, large quantities of which are imported. The price of such bags varies from ls. 6d. to 2s. each. The number of children attending either Day or Sunday schools iu New Zealand, iu 1864, is estimated in the Registrar General's Returns as follows : Auckland, 4,548; Taranaki, 743 ; Wellington, 2,400 ; Hawke's Bay, 233; Nelson, 2,359; Marlborough, 245; Canterbury, 2,814; Otago, 3,903; Southland, 744. A new Court House is about to be erected at the Grey. The Court room is to be 18 feet by 27 feet ; Magistrate's room 14 feet by 10 feet; and two Clerk's rooms 10 feet by 10 and 12 feet. The building is of wood. The Grey River Argus reports that the diggings on the North Beach are extending. The formation of a company to construct a tramway from Cobden to Point Elizabeth is spoken of. The Canterbury Press, intimates that a party of gentlemen cricketers intend to pay Australia a visit. Two of the notabilities are Mr. R. Fitzgerald, a tremendous hitter, and the Honorable C. G. Lyttelton, son of Lord Lyttelton. The members about to be elected to represent Westland in the Canterbury Provincial Council are thus distributed; Hokitika, 2; Greymouth, 1 ; Gold-fields, 2. The nomination takes place at Hokitika, July 3rd, and the polling on the 4th, for the towns. The nomination for the gold-fields is to take place on the 2nd, aud the polling on the 6th July. The day of nomination for Greymouth is the 28th June.

The report from the Hau-Hau diggings to May 27th, was generally as follows : population 2,000. Afc the Little Paddock, there were 30 business places. The lead of gold was traced to Tucker Flat. Prospects had been obtained from wash-dirt 6 to 12 inches deep, of 3 dwts to the dish. The sinking was from 70 to 120 feet. The shafts requireto be well timbered. Miners are working on the lead for three miles. The Grey River Argus thinks the distance from Greymouth to Maori Gully, can be greatly shortened, reducing the track from 17 to 7 miles. A road sufficiently substantial for pack-horses ean be made for £2,000, and it is intended to memorialise the Government to carry out the work. The tender of Messrs. Bichem, Neely, and Brown, has been accepted by the Nelson Government for £182, for removing sna^s in the River Grey. Our latest advices from Dunedin contain a statement that gold has been struck at Weatherstone's Flat, at a depth of 280 feet. This announcement has naturally caused great excitemeut, and induced the belief that better days than ever are in store for the Otago gold-fields. A notification appears in the Geueral Government Gazette of the 28th ult., that Letters Patent have been granted to Alfred Agles, of Weatherstones, for an invention, entitled "Argles' Gold Washing, Dicharging, Separating, and Amalgamating Set of Sluicing Boxes." The Grey River Argus has the following remarkable account of a robbery that never existed but in the vivid imagination of a contemporary, who was in all probability the acute telegraphic agent in question. A telegram iu the West Coast Times states that on the night of Saturday last, the office of the Bank of New South Wales, at Nelson, was entered by burglars. Ingress was effected by lifting one of the window-sashes. The thieves had, however, a fruitless job, for they found nothing they could carry away. The amusement of roller-skating has been introduced by Mr. Coppin, and has become a favorite pastime in Melbourne. A box of cocoons of the ailanthus silkworm was brought to Melbourne by the Lincolnshire. Several of the worms are alive and well. English thrushes are seen on the river Golbourne, Australia. Some cochineal insects, with their larva?, have been received by Dr. Mueller, Victoria, from Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand. It is intended to attempt their propagation on cactus plants. The manure manufactured by the Victorian Manure Company, of Ballarat, from lignite deposits, is being largely used by the planters of the Kandy regions. The Port Phillip Company afc Clunes, Victoria, have erected a tailing's pump, at a cost of £400. It stands alone among the sand heaps doing its work like a giant, slaving day and night, apparently undriven and unaided, astonishing all who look at it. It will pay for itself in two months, it having cost the company at least £50 per week regularly to do its work by manual labor. The war of tariffs between Victoria" and New South Wales has led to the seizure of several vehicles, on the border, for non-pay-ment of duty. The 'consternation amongst the owners of buggies has been great. Specimens of petroleum found" at Western Port, by Mr. Morris, have been submitted for inspection to the Geelong Advertiser. The Soztth Australian Advertiser reports that a discovery of tin has been made on Kangaroo Island. A prospectus has been issued of the Lake Catharine Chemical Company, formed to utilise the grass trees on the Yaber station, in the Cape Otway district. The Great. Britain recently took away 620 passengers,. and £400,000 worth of gold from Port Phillip; Cautious Pat. — A dying Irishman was asked by his confessor if he was prepared to renounce the devil and all his works. " Oh, your honour," said Pat, "don't ask me that, I'm going into a strange country, and I don't want to make myself enemies!"