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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 10, 12 January 1867, Page 3

We (W. C. Times) remember some time ago reading an article by Mr. Charles Dickens entitled "A Visit to the London Docks," the writer being supposed at the time to be under the influence of the "rosy god." As may be imagined, the jumble was magnificent, and was forcibly recalled to our mind on reading the following, which is extracted from the Tuapeka Recorder, (Otago):—"Mr. Hamilton failed in his attempt to leap a gate against a horse on the stage of the theatre, Hokitika." Surely the editor is according to the general custom of his profession, a teetotaller! A huge specimen of the shark species was caught at Hokitika, on the 4th inst.> by the crew of the Challenge, whilst that vessel was lying in the roadstead between the tides. When measured it was found to be over eight feet long—the length being, in proportion, nothing compared to its girth, which at the thickest part of the body was nearly five feet. It was brought ashore unmutilated, and pronounced by the many who viewed it, as a most undesirable acquaintance upon a bathing excursion. Our Southland files inform us that the lien held by Dalgety, Rattray, and Co. over a portion of the Bluff and Invercargill Railway has been withdrawn. Count Eulenburg, the Prussian officer who killed Herr Ott at Bonn, has been pardoned after having been confined for several mouths in a fortress.