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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 120, 24 July 1866, Page 2

According to the desire of Mr Dobson, his sou was buried in the Grey mouth cemetery, between the graves of Messers YVhitcombe and Towusand, two surveyors who accompanied Dr Haast on his first expedition to the West Coast, and died through starvation and exposure. A more appropriate resting-place could not be found for the remains of oue who, like these two unfortunate gentlemen, lost his life in the public service. We understand the Government meditates erecting two monuments to the memory of these three men ; one over their graves in the cemetery, and the other in Christchurch. At a recent meeting of the master bakers of Auckland, the price of bread was again reduced to fivepence the two-pound loaf. The Independent is glad to find that Wellington •will not be altogether unrepresented at the forthcoming Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, as Mr. Barraud, whose works of art were so highly appreciated at the New Zealand Exhibition of 1 865, as to obtain the award of a Silver Medal from the Commissioners, is sending five (5) Water Color Drawings ; and as Dr. Hector has permitted them to be- placed temporarily in the Museum, the public will have an opportunity of inspecting . them for a few days, before they are despatched to Melbourne.