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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 90, 19 June 1866, Page 3

It will be seen from our police report that a man was brought up and remanded on suspicion of being connected with the supposed murder at the Maungatapu. His name is said ro be Levy. He was sworn to by two witnesses, as having left the Deep Creek on the 11th iiist. It is eaid that a party at the Pelorus knows him and his antecedents, and is prepared to prove that lie is one of the suspected meu. The most diligent search is being made for the missiug men, but as yet without avail. The wife of Felix Matthews, ' with her son and two dogs, have taken one direction ; whilst several other parties are scouring the country. Two other constables were despatched from Nelson this morning. They were accompanied by Jar vis, a storekeeper of Canvas Town, who knows the three suspected men. " The mail for the United Kingdom, Uuited States, and Canada, Picton, Wellington, and the South, closes at 12*^0, p.m., to-morrow. For Newspapers, at 11, a.m. Newspapers must have Id. stamp on them. By the arrival of the Phoebe from the North, we have Auckland dates to the 1 6th iiist. The correspondent of the Cross, writ--^hfg from the camp Te Papa, May 3oth, gives Tfeicatioias of a new faith among^the natives. He speaks of the arrival of 300 Wacganui aud Taranaki natives, and adds that another native war is imminent. Large parties of natives were reported to be assembling from all the disaffected districts, such as Rotorua, Taupo, Wanganui, Taranaki, and Wai k a to. The correspondent adds that nothing of importance has transpired, at least nothing has oozed out as to the numbers of the fanatics. Colonel Hamilton, the commanding officer of the district, is ready for any emergency, aud if the natives waat to fight they will find in him a brave and determined leader. The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, thus gossips respecting the mail contracts: — As Friday, the 27th of April, drew near (the day fixed for receiving tenders), there were confident rumors that the N.Z. Company would find themselves nowhere, unless they tendered at au absurdly low figure. The P.N.Z. Company, it now appears, had tendered absurdly low, and the N.Z. Company were wise enough to do so also. As a consequence, the four inter-pro-vincial services which we are to have instead of six, as at present, have been equally divided between the two companies; while the Sydney and Auckland contract falls to the P.N.Z. Company, aud the Melbourne and Otago contract to the Otago S.S. Company. The following are the extraordinarily low rates of acceptance, viz.: — P.N.Z. Co. Total, £12,480 per annum. Auckland to Sydney £5,280 per annum. Do. to Port Chalmers 3,G00 do. Manukau to Bluff. 3,600 do. N.Z.S.N. Co. Total, £7,200 per annum. Auckland to Port Chalmers £3,600 per annum. Manukau to Bluff 3,600 do. O.S.S. Co. Total, £4,800 per annum. Melbourne to Port Chalmers £4,800 per annum .(two boats). The result is that we are to have four Inter-provincial boats running for £14,400, the hitherto sis boats service costing, say £35,000 — the two- Inter-colonial services being also proportionately reduced from what they were costing only a very little while ago. We extract the following from the Lyttletou Times — ''Messrs. Cobb and Co. have just completed one of the best specimens of coachbuilding that has been produced in the colony. It is the class of eoacli technically .known as ' American Jack,' and is iitted up

with all tlie most reeent improvements, bdth internally aud externally. The exterior decoration is a first-class piece of work, possibly almost too elaborate. The art of coach-paint-ing is no ordinary one, and iu this instance the painter seems to have -bestowed more labor upon his work than is usually the case. As a general rule, elaborate finish is sacrificed to general effect; one reason of this is the high rate of wages paid in almost every country to artists who have, chosen, this branch of the profession. In former days, painters of considerable celebrity did not think it derogatory to undertake the embellishment of carriages. On the .panels of the one we are describing, besides the American emblems, is painted -an heraldic escutcheon of the arms of INTew Zealand, having an European and a native as the supporters, and bearing the motto ' England's youngest and greatest.' Altogether the design and execution of the work reflects great credit on the skill aud energy of Messrs. Cobb and Co. To give some idea of the laborious finish which has been bestowed upon the painting of the coach, it may be mentioned that the panelling alone was executed at a cost of £70." A paper at Hokitika thus congratulates its readers on the possession of municipal institutions: — We sincerely congratulate this long ill-governed town upon the happy change it has in prospect Henceforth its affairs will be administered by a responsible body of citizens, elected, in the first instance, by the resident householders who are alsV'eleetors for the Provincial Council, and afterwards by the ratepayers of the town. There is, at last a hope of the voice of just complaint being heard, and of the convenience, safety, and health of the public being properly cared for. The people will no longer have to hang about the lobbies of the Commissioner's office, and vainly beg for the crumbs of official favor. They will have it in their power to make their own municipal laws, to adjust taxation aud expend its proceeds, and to make the town habitable to persons who have been accustomed to certain conditions of civilization. The K~ew York Tribune, commenting: on the diplomatic correspondence concerning the Shenandoah, refers to "an important affidavit" submitted by Mr. Adams to the British Government, ia which it is stated that of the 127 persons on board the Sheuaudoah, no less that 78 were, and were known to be, British subjects; that the principal guns used during the cruise of the Shenandoah were on board wheu she sailed from London ; that the, British Governor of Melbourne was privately entertained by Captain Waddell on the Shenaudoah ; that the Government Engineer of Melbourne was on the vessel two or three timed a day, and gave his advice about the necessary repairs; and that the Shenaudoah captured and burned 19 vessels after receiving the information at the end of the war. The Riverine Herald states that some of the runs on the Upper Murray are much infested with wild pigs. This is the case with many on the lower river. It is well known that the blacks will not eat pig's flesh ; but dowu the Murray we have known them make quite a business of hunting the young porkers, which they sell to the whites. The Talbot Leader records that "a number of mining managers and other persons residing iu the neighbourhood of Talbot attended on Monday afternoon (30fch ult.) at Mr. Schultz's factory, Argyle-street, for the purpose of witnessing the starting of a Lilliputian steamengine, the improved principle of which is invented by Mr. Schultz himself. The machiuery is of a most perfect and compact character, everything being proportionate to the size of the boiler, which is two feet six: inches in length. The eDgine is capable of bearing an eighteen-pound pressure ; and the difference between this model and the engines iu vogue is in the construction of the cylinder, which is shaped like a fan or half circle. Economy is the object sought, the motive power being obtained at a saving of twentyfive per cent, of steam on the quantity used by ordinary engines. The trial on the 2nd instant was quite a success, encomiums being freely lavished on the inventor by those present, to whom the working of the model

afforded considerable satisfaction:-- Mr, Schultz informs us that Be has a'pippfed foe a patent, and that the model is destined for a place in the Intercolonial Exhibition." The King of Italy has conferred the title of Baron on Mr. S. S. Kirkup, an Englfsh artist residing in Florence, but whose atteiitiou of late years has been directed to 'iße inTestigation and illustration of the poems -of Dante. M. Victor Hugo's new book, Les TravaiJleurs de la Mer, is. in the press at Brussels. The first volume is already printed, and M. Paul Meurice, who superintended the publication in Paris of the Chausons des Rues efc des Bois, is to perform the same office for Les Travailleurs. A year ago (says the New York Times) Miss Mo-xtha Baldwin, a graduate of Baldwin University, at Terea, Ohio, was elected to fill the chair of professorship of the Greek and Latin languages in the Baker University, Kansas, which was chartered in 1857, and has been in active operation for seven years, A Milan, letter states that Dr. Giuseppe Ortori, of that city, lias just discovered a manuscript by LeonardoJJda Vinci, consisting of about 1)2 leaves of parchment, in which the illustrious painter, who was also one of the most distinguished men of science of his time, examines the different phenomena of light in their relation to his art. The English language has been officially adopted by the Government of the Japanese Empire, and permission has been given to have it taught publicly. Prince Satsuma is now turning his attention to commerce, and is largely engaged in the silk trade, finding it more profitable to sell silk to the English than to have his palaces battered down by them. A London correspondent says that an engagement has been made by the Messrs.- Chappeli with JVIr. Charles Dickens, for the latter gentleman to grvi 30 readings, for the largest sum ever paid toa lecturer in England. The series is to be given in different towns, and Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester are included. The first reading will be of Dr. Marigold, at St. James's Hall.