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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 37, 14 February 1867, Page 2

In our leader, yesterday, in the sixteenth line from the bottom, the name of Mr. Stafford, is inserted, by mistake, for thai of Mr. Curtis. Mr. 0. Curtis invites lhe electors to meet him, at the Provincial Hall, at halfpast seven, this oveniug. A ratepayer writes as follows : — A critic in the Examiner, docs not read the reports of the proceedings of the Beard of Works, or he wouid not blame them for not looking after the Maitai, over -which they have no control. A correspondence between the Provincial Government and the Board, will bo considered at the next meeting. The Board will look after the river when it is their business to do so, bnt they will never be able to satisfy all requirements oufc of a penny rate. Yesterday, a man named Disuiel Wotton, who has been confined for some time in the Lunatic Asylum, took it, into his head to shift his quarter?, and wander about Collingwood-street for two or three hours. His guardians, on missing hiin, communicated with the police, who had him in side keeping at the time the officers of the Asylum were mystified as to where their eccentric charge would next turn up. The murderer Sullivan has at length found his place in the Nelson prison gang. He may be seen daily marching to and fro witli his fellow convicts, and working with them in the city works. He looks well and assumes a buoyant air that is not, supposed to belong to great criminals. Ifc is an instalment of justice to the community which he has outraged, that he is at length compelled to toil like oilier convicts before receiving tlie prison ratious. It has not escaped 'observation that he is not in irons, and that some hardship is cast ou the men who, suffering for minor offences, are placed in the same category with so great acriminal. The rush to the Haasfc, an account of which appears iu -mother column, 'is said to be abating. The steamers which took passengers from Hokitika there, are bringing them back in considerable numbers. The Claud Hamilton, ifc is stated, brought back about 40, and the Bruce also had a great number. Hokitika merchants "who sent agents to the Haast river, have been requested by them to forward no more goods at present, as the rush is overdone. We learn from the Westport Times, that the beaches and rivers to the north are being partially tried. Afc Waim_ngaroa, about 70 meu are at work, with excellent prospects.' A share has been sold in the prospecting claim for £40. It is expected that a good gold-field will be opened at the Blackwater. From the Little Wangauui good reports are received. Provisions are reasonable, and those present are satisfied with the results. There are three bottoms of auriferous strata ; the first 18 inches from the surface, the next two feet further down, aud the last three feet from that. Ifc is reported that gold has been struck about a mile inland at Mokihinui. The miners at the Buller have not been much influenced by the txaasfc fever, their experiences of Bruce Baj r last year having operated as a caution to them. The Westport Times of the 9th to hand by tbe Ahuriri, advocates a tramway to the Pakihis, which, it says, could be constructed without difficulty, at an expense of £7000, Whilst Westporfc would obtain advantages from the current passengers and goods traffic, the Pakihis would obtain necessaries with certainty, afc reduced risks and at less piices, to say

nothing of the convenience of passengers. Owners, agents, or captains of vessels are now compelled, ou- taking goods from Charleston, either lo laud them at a heavy expense, or to risk their vessel's wreck by going into the cove. If a tramway was constructed, it would pay shareholders very well to take goods from the other side of the river at from 20s. to 40s. per ton. the latter being the maximum, aud pnpsengcrs could be carried for pretty well as little as provisions on the road now cost. We learn from the Sydney Mail, tha. the opening of the new cemetery at Haslem's Creek was not very creditable. The first body that found a last resting place there was that of '"'a pauper whom nobody owned." He died in the infirmary of consumption, and uo religious body owued him, or made any preparation for liis Christian burial.' The body was forwarded by the Government to Haslein's Creek, in default of anybody to care for it, and no grave being prepared, two of the unemployed who were there dug a shallow pit, ami the cemetery was consecrated by the first burial being as secular as tho most ardent secularist could have desired. It has been stated that the deceased was a Roman Catholic, and it is a very unusual thing for 1 lie priests of that Church to be negligent in paying the last offices to the dying nnd dead. Father Dwyer has explained that there was no negligence on his part — that the deceased was received into the Infirmary as a protestant, and a.s such attended by Protestant ministers.It was uot till after the man was dead that, he was told that he was a HomanCatholic, nud had been previously attended by the J>omau Catholic priest, and that heonly waited for promised proof of that — which he never got — to give the order for burial.