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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 9, 11 January 1867, Page 2

A large seizure of smuggled tobacco was made at Melbourne on the 19th December, by the Customs authorities, the total number, of cigars seized being 65,000. The South Australian Register states that the coming crop of wheat in that colony is estimated at 6,75,000 bushels, and the Victorian crop at 3, 50U,000 bushels AtMaitland, N.S.W., a discovery has just been made that may prove of considerable commercial value. A black substance is found oozing out of a rock, specimens of which, on being taken to Sydney, are pronounced by savans to be bitumen. The specimens resemble in appearance the bitumen foud at Bastennne, in the Pyrenees, wbich realises, when freed from impurities, £30 per ton in London. So many complaints have been made in the colony of N.S. W., relative to the marriage fees charged by the Anglican church, that at "Woolongong it has been resolved the parson and clerk shall do their parts in the ceremony for nothing, thus making their work, like that of those whom they espouse, a labor of love. At Huddersfield, a collier has been sent to prison for a. month, for working in a coal-pit with a naked light.