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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 51, 2 March 1867, Page 2

We (New Zealand Advertiser) understand that Captain Meikleham, for some time past commander of the s.s. Airedale, and for several years an officer in the P.N.Z. & A.R.M. Company, has obtained leave of absence for twelve months for the purpose of visiting the mother country on private business, and he will leave here by the next Panama steamer en route for England. During Captain Meikleham's residence in this Colony, he has become very generally known in every port for his civility and attention to passengers, together with his many excellent qualities as a seaman, and many friends will regret even his temporary absence. We have not heard who succeeds Captain Meikleham iii the command of the Airedale. Dr. Halley informs the Tuapeka Recorder that several children have lately been under treatment for an ailment proceeding from the effects of eating . some berrieSgWhich. resemble the blackberries of the old country. The berries alluded to are considerably smaller than the common English blackberry, and they contain a fatal poison. We observe by our Canterbury files that Mr. A. S. Hamilton, the phrenologist, is now in Christchurch. In the Sonthlaud Provincial Council an ordinance has been introduced to amend the Licensing Ordinance, 1865. The following is one of the clauses: — Every hoTder of a license who shall sell otherwise than for ready money any liquor to any person for consumption on the premises, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence not less than lOs and not more than £5. Provided that any. sale of. liquors

for consumption, with meals supplied to any person bona fide lodging in the house of the holder of the license shall not be deemed an offence within the meaning of this section.

The Southland Times, of the loth inst. says : — We regret, to learn that Captain Fisher of the Wild Wave, met with a serious accident while engaged in superintending the landing of the horses — part of the cargo of his vessel from Hobart Town — at the Mokomoko Jetty. The last horse but one to be landed was in the slings when it kicked out, breaking two of his fibs. He immediately came up to town in a boat for medical assistance, and is now getting on favorably. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that if the horse hud been shod, the result would have been fatal.

Several Lincoln rams, from the celebrated flock of Mr. Kirkham, of Biscathorpe, selected for Colonel Whitmore, of iNapier,were shipped by the Montmorency. The continued introduction of some of these choicest breeds cannot but benefit the colonists and colony.