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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 131, 6 August 1866, Page 3

*"* The Customs revenue at Hokitika for the past month amounted to £13,993 ls. 9d.; the duty upon imports being .£10,223 Os. lid., and the export duty on gold £3770. The West Coast Times of Tuesday states that a party of men had arrived at Hokitika, overland from Okarita, with the intelligence that a new beach had been opened last week between Jacob's (or the Makawiho) and the Mahitahi Rivers. Our informant staled that the gold -was struck quite accidentiy, by a '■ parly of men engaged iii cutting a tail race j through the beach to drain some higher ground. We (Grey River Argus) announced a short time ago that the Nelson Government intended to appoint another warden ou its goldfields. We uow learn that owing to the growing importance of the diggings at the Inangahua and its neighbourhood, the new warden is to be stationed at tlie township of Kynnersley, and lhat Mr. Jones of Xelson is the gentleman selected to fill the post. Tlie appointment of Mr. Jones is favorably regarded by the miners, to many of whom he is well known. The PI. Chronicle says : — The new name of "Goldsborough," mentioned in the last Provincial Government Gazette as the authorised designation of one of the West goldfield towns has puzzled very many. Mr. Barff, M.P.C., informs us that it has been applied to the Waimea township, and henceforth the old familiar, but somewhat indefinite name of the " Six-mile" must give place to the more euphonious nomenclature of official origiu. Mr. DeLoree. of the Blue Jacket Hotel, Hokitika, has exercised his ingenuity, and twisted aud twined, intertwisted and intertwined with apparently inextricable complexity another of his famous "kuots." He challenges one and all tp untie it, or make another like it. It hangs in his bar for the amusement of the curious, or occupation of the patient, and is a specimen of ingenuity well worth seeing. The W. C. Times reports an accident that occurred to a miner named August Zelias, whilst siuking iu a shaft near Jones' Flat Plotel. lie was at one removed to the surface and Dr. Hudson called in, who found him still alive but so exhausted through loss of blood that there was no chance of saving him, and although everything was done that medical skill could suggest he breathed his last shortly afterwards. It is supposed that the wound was caused by either a back stroke from the pick, or the falling of a stone.