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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 49, 28 February 1867, Page 2

The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for Canterbury announces in a notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, that he has registered a memorandum of Association, with Articles of Association, establishing a company with unlimited liability of shareholders, called "The Royal Westland Insurance Company," under the Joint Stock Companies Act. We (Wakatip Mail) thought the systematic way in which characters have continually ruDg the fire-bell here was had enough, but the way. they do things in Dunedin is diabolical. At that place some wretch actually plugged up the keyhole of the engine-house with wood, and the plugs had to be augured out, which took about a quarter of an hour to accomplish. We (Marlborough Express) understand that the large Water Race Company at Deep Creek have begun their washing and are sanguine of being repaid amply for their outlay and labor. There are about 85 miners on the ground, but the late unsettled weather has interfered with the progress of much work. The Sydney Morning Herald of the 13th {instant says : — A rumor prevailed in town yesterday to the effect that telegraphic intelligence had been received from England stating that the appeal in the case of Bertrand had been sustained by the Privy Council, and that the prisoner would consequently revert to the position in which he stood immediately after his conviction. We have ascertained that no such intelligence has been received by the Law Officers of the Crown. The damage done by the recent flood in the Calder vale from the Dewsbury side of the town to Thornhill is estimated at £100,000. |!T. During the late flood at Preston about 20 rats, driven by the rising water from their usual hiding places, took refuge in a Mve full of bees, in a garden.