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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 110, 13 May 1867, Page 2

The Govern/rent Gazette of Saturday last contains a notification that certain allotments of land in the townships of Westport aud Seaford, and in Waimea West (near Redwood's Valley), in Upper Motueka, East Takaka, Pakawau, and Wangamoa, will be put up to public auction at the Crown Lands Office, on Saturday, the 15th of June next, uuder the usual conditions. Five inebriates, all of them seamen, aud named respectively John Blair, William Phillips, Thomas M 'Shane, James Allen, and Archibald Dykes, were brought up this morning, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, and severally fined 14s.

"We are desirous of stating, in regard to the case Murphy v. Davidson, heard at tbe Resident Magistaate's Court on Wednesday last, and in reference to the verdict given in whicii case a letter appeared in our Saturday's issue, that, on enquiring from Dr. Vickerman, one of the medical officers of the Hospital, we find that the young woman Murphy, on leaving Mr. Davidson's service, was attended by him and that he recommended her immediate removal to the Hospital. Dr. Vickerman states that she was at the time suffering from an attack of strumous opthalniia, of so distressing a nature that he was not sure whether he should be able to save her sight, and was, in fact, utterly incapable of doing any work whatever. Under these circumstances few will doubt that this young person was fully justified iv quitting Mr. Davidson's service, and, in spite of the apprehensions of "Materfamilias," we must decline to question the propriety of the verdict given by the Resident Magistrate in this case.

We regret to hear that a very destructive fire took place yesterday on the farm premises of Mr. Tietjen, au old aud respected settler at Appleby. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Tietjen were from home during the morniug; in their absence

their children, the eldest of whom is about eight years old, were playing with lucifer matches, and it is supposed, ignited some straw iv the farm. yard. The flames spread rapidly, and iv a comparatively short time three stacks of wheat, oats, and hay respectively, were entirely destroyed. We are informed that nothing but the strenuous and praiseworthy exertions of the neighbors, who were soon on the spot, prevented the entire destruction of the dwelling-house and surrounding buildings, and that the damage, which wili amount to about £300, is of a very serious character, the property not having been insured.