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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 186, 9 October 1866, Page 2

The mail for the Buller, Grey, and Hokitika, per Nelson, closes at 9 a.m. to-morrow. A serious robbery was effected on board the Nelson, at Greymouth, on the 7th inst, A man named John Markham and his mate, had taken their passage from Greymouth to Aucklaud." On waking up in the morning, Markham was horrified to find he had been robbed of the following property : a £20 note, a £10 note, seven £1 notes, deposit receipts on the Bank of New South. Wales, at Hokitika and Okarita, for £40, £100, £200, £280, and £240. These, were all drawn in Markham's name. Wheu the robbery was discovered Inspector James telegraphed to Inspector Shall crass, and requested him to search any suspicious looking person lie might see on board the Nelson, when she reached this port, and intimated that as the cook of the vessel slept in the next bunk to Markham, he ought to be searched. These instructions were attended to, but no money or deposit receipts were found. The mate of Markham says he saw some loafing looking fellows come on board at the Grey. He saw one lying ou the floor of the cabin on the night previous to the robbery, and asked him why he was not in bed. The fellow made no answer. Markham's mate then went to bed and fell asleep. In the morning he found Markain had been robbed and these fellows were not to bo seen. It is said that Markham will be able to prevent the thieves from getting the value of the deposit receipts from the banks, and that he will lose the notes only. This robbery shows the necessity that exists for a sharp look out being kept on the steamers that leave the various ports ou the West Coast, which swarm with the thieving fraternity from Victoria and Sydney. Last evening, Mr. Hamilton delivered a lecture in the Provincial Hall, oii the phrenological developments of the criminals concerned in the Maungatapu murders. His Honor the Superintendent, was voted to the chair, but suggested that Dr. Williams should fill it, he being chairman of the Search Committee, whose labors had merged in those of the Monumental Committee in whose favor the lecture was to be delivered. The lecturer was aided in his illustration of the heads of the three executed criminals, by plaster casts prepared by Mr. Knight in a i very accurate and artistic manner. The lecture, which was written, occupied three hours in the delivery, and embraced every subject of interest in connection with the characters of Burgess, Kelly, Levy, and Sullivan. The sum of £23 was realised by the lecture, which, will be handed over to the Monumental Committee. Mr. Hamilton received the unanimous thanks of the large assembly, at the close of his very interesting lecture: The General Assembly: was : prorogued by the Governor yesterday, to the 27th December next. The Examiner of this morning contradicts

- a statement it made in. its last' issue that Bur:.gess kissed the rope -on < ascending the scaf- j fold. The first statement was correct. Our ! • reporter saw Burgess kiss the rope the mo.ment he reached the scaffold, and when no one but Levy and he were at the right hand side \ of it. ffhe kneeling and repetition of prayer - was a minute or two subsequent to this. The j :kissingahe rope was -such an extraordinary . act that a person watching Burgess could not be mistaken, and no person would be likely j to invent so strange- an occurrence. Several persons have complained to us of the unceremonious manner in which they were treated by the Eire Brigade when the latter arrived at the scene of the fire on Saturday last. The persons who had been exerting themselves to put out the fire, naturally felt a little hurt on being told to get out of the way by the accredited fire extinguishers. It is not easy to define what .amount of politeness should be expected to be-shown on such a trying occasion. It is ihardly a time for passing compliments. No doubt as the Brigade and the townspeople understand each other better, the absence of entente cordiale will cease to be complained of. In the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, James Stool, a seaman, was fined 10s. and costs for drunken nesss. Mr. La Griff announces a lecture to-mor-row evening in the Provincial Hall, on the phrenology of numerous murderei_ heads, including those of Burgess, Kelly, Levy, aud Sullivan. His Honor the Superintendent notifies in the Provincial Government Gazette, the promotion of R. Shallcrass to be Inspector, Edwin Edwards to be Sergeant-major, and John Nash to be Sergeant. The same gazette notifies the appointment of Mr. Hugh Jones, to be a Warden of the Nelson Southwest Gold-fields. * >£ It may be within the recollection of some ' of our readers, says the W. C. Times, that about nine months ago the schooner Amelia Francis sailed from Nelson, bound, we believe, to this port with a cargo valued at £3000. She -never arrived at her destina- ; tion, aud long ago was given up for lost and . placed upon the list of missing vessels. She : has, however turned up ; but on the other ? side of the Pacific, -as we are to uuder- ' stand that her captain bolted with her to the : South Sea Islands, where the cargo was sold, ' aud the vessel afterwards taken to California and there disposed of. We have not heard I whether the proceeds of both sales were re- ! mitted to her sorrowing owners, but learn that her master was mate under the wellknown Captain Hayes, of New Zealand notoriety. A sad accident is reported as having occurred at the Haast River. The W. C. Times, of the Ist inst., supplies the following particulars of the event : — A correspondent has favored us with the following account of a sad boat accident at the Haast River : — j It is with much regret that I have to report an accident that occurred at the Haast River on the 19th August last, and which resulted in the death of Mr. Isaac Allen, who is well known and respected in Otago, and the narrow escape of four others. It appears that a party of five persons, consisting of Messrs. Allen, Bently (of Bently Bros., saddlers, of Dunedin), T. Minnear, Clarke Waite, and Wm. Thompson, who is better known as Maori Bill, started in a boat from Jackson's Bay early in August, for the purpose of prospecting the coast. They landed at the Haast, and after exploring in the neighborhood, were launching the boat for the purpose of returning to Jackson's Bay for provisions, when the sad accident occurred, for before they could get through the break a sea struck and filled the boat, and washed the crew out of her. Mr. Allen disappeared and was seen no more, and Messrs. Bentley and Watte would probably have shared a similar fate but for the timely assistance afforded them by Maori Bill, who, after assisting Waite to get ashore, returned to help Bentley, who was almost exhausted. Mr. Allen's body has not been recovered. The following extraordinary occurrence is from the Gipps Land Chronicle of Ist inst.: — One of those singular dispensations of Pro-

vidence but rarely experienced in this part of the world, or perhaps in any other portion of it, was brought under our notice yesterday evening, by Dr. M'Donald. It -appears, 'from the information given to us, that late on the evening previously the doctor was suddenly called to attend a little girl, a child of about five years old, aud a daughter of Mr. Lightwood. On proceeding to the spot, the doctor found the child suffering from severe convulsions, and not likely to last many minutes. The doctor' 8 opinion was not much better until he made inquiries, and then one of the female attendants pointed mysteriously to the cupboard. Ou proceeding to the cupboard, the doctor found three empty vial bottles, with a label on each, the first being marked 'Underwood's antidote,' the second was marked -croton oil,' and the third was a strong emetic. The conclusion he came to at first was the right one: he thought the child had swallowed the conteuts of each of the bottles^ one after another ; and so she had. But having taken them in the best order imaginable, a better result could not have been produced. The child was determined that she should have them one after another asquiekly as possible, but in such good order that they acted as counter-irritants. In instance, Underwood's antidote is a powerful poison ; but croton oil, when taken in the quantities incautiously swallowed by the child, would be almost sufficient to purge every poison from the system, and where it did not, the strong emetic would. The child was in agony for a while, but eventually recovered, and no other agency is attributed by the medical gentlemen present for the strange intervention than an unusual interposition of providence. The Melbourne Age attributes the depression of Queensland to the reckless system of immigration which has flooded the country for many years. It says : — lmmigrants are still being landed on the wharfs, while the people, goaded to desperation by actual want, are threatening to storm the stores and banks, and even menacing the mansion of his Excellency the Governor. It is a pity that Sir George Bowen, who imagines that he has a right to " control" responsible government, did not interfere to check the over-popula-ting labors of Mr. Jordan, the ' : indefatigable" immigration agent. Between Jordanism and Bowenism, one of the most promising of the Australian colonies has come to grief.