PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 151, 1 July 1867, Page 3

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Tuesday, July 2. .NO.TIC.ES OF. MOTION. Mr. Pitt to move that a Select Committee be appointed to consider and report to this Council upon the best means of securing the speedy development of the JBuller Coal-fields; such Committee to "consist of the Speaker, Mr Wastney, Mr. Akersten, Mr. Bentley, Mr. White, Mr. Gibbs, the Provincial Secretary, and the mover, with power to send for persons -and papers. Mr. Sparrow to move that his Honor the Superintendent be requested to place on the Estimates the sum of £15, for marking out the entrance of the Waitupu River, Golden Bay. Mr. Burn to move that his Honor the Superintendent be requested to place on the Estimates the sum of £250, for the purpose of putting the Nelson Cemetery Roads in a thorough state of repair. The Provincial Secretary to move that the Licensing Bill be re-committed, for the purpose of striking out the following words in clause 9 : — " at the Court House, Motueka and at such other places as the Superintendent may by proclamation appoint." Mr. Kingdon to move, on the re-commit-tal of the " Licensing Bill," to insert in clause 28, after the word "person " in the first line, the words "holding a License for ; the sale of spirituous liquors, wine, ale, beer, or porter, to be consumed on the premises." Mr. Bentley to move, on the recommittal of the Licensing Bill, in clause 26, line 3, that the word *' ten " be struck out, and the word " eleven " inserted. Mr. Akersten to move, on the recommittal of the Licensing Bill, in clause 20, after the woid "porter" in the fourth line, to insert the words " on any workingday." Mr. Donne to move that it is the opinion of this Council that Reserves should at once be set apart upon the various townships on the Nelson So.uthwest Gold-fields, for Educational, Church, and retereationtpurposes; Mr. I£ing;<}ori to move that the Report of the Select Committee appointed "To consider and report upon the advisability of readjusting the Cobden , and Buller Electoral Districts," and "as to the enlargement of the representation of the Nelson South-west Gold-fields" be adopted. Mr. Gibbs to move that Standing Order No. 38, be suspended, to fenable him to moye that his Honor the Superintendent be requested to place on , the Estimates $he sum of £147, towards completing the repairs of the Heaphy Track. OEDEKS OF THE DAY. Further consideration in committee on the Crown Lauds Leasing Bill. Further consideration iu committee on the Gold-fields Licensing Bill. Consideration in committee on the Estir mates.

The Great Eastern has sailed, from Liverpool for New York. A most unfortunate accident happened to one of the capstans, while the anchor was being a weigh. One man was killed on the spot, and several other men were wounded. Sir John Anderson was one of those who were hurt, but his injuries are said uot to be severe. The Queen has caused to be forwarded the. sum of £3 to a miner's wife named Maria Jose, living at Camborne, Cornwall, as a donation to the poor w.oman on the occasion of her confinement of three children. No attacks of cattle plague were re-,, ported to the Privy Council office from; any part of Great Britain during the. week, _'.' ending 23rd March, 1867. The aggregate number of cattle reported lo have been attacked in Great Britain since the commencement is 253,891, and 52,657 animals have been . slaughtered healthy to prevent the spread of the disease. A disease of a veTy alarming character has broken ■ out among a. herd of cattle belouging to Mr. John Mill, of Penpill farm, near Callington, Cornwall. "Within a few days 14 bullocks have succumbed to the disease, and several others are in a critical state. One pig has also died from the same cause. Several veterinary surgeons have examined the diseased animals, but have been unable to decide upon the nature of the disease, which they are all of opinion is not rinderpest. Professor Symons is engaged on an analysis and examination of the internal organs of some of the animals which have died. The outbreak has caused gi:ea,t uneasiness and alarm in Eass Cornwall. A meeting of mining engineers has been held in Norm an ton, for the purpose of consnlting as to steps to be taken in reopening the Oaks Pitt, and recovering the bodies of those killed by the successive explosions in December last. It was decided that the safest and most effectual plan would be to sink a new shaft. The work will occupy about two years. At the Barnstaple Petty Sessions just held two ladies were elected overseers; Mrs. Slocombe for the parish of Brittadon, and Mrs. Craug for the parish of Bratton Fleming. A few days ago, James Longhurst, a young man, convicted of murdering a girl seven years old, near Guilford, under circumstances of great brutality, suffered the extreme penalty of the law in front of Horsemonger-lane Gaol. The scene at the scaffold appears to have been of the usual character, except that there was probably less ruffianism than attends the execution of more notorious criminals. Inside the gaol, however, a shocking addition to the sadness of the proceedings is reported. At sight of the executioner he was terror T stricken and resisted violently. The chaplain addressed a few words to him, which for the moment appeared to pacify him* but when the executioner attempted to pinion him, he struggled ' frightfully* and it took four or five warders to restrain him. He was at length thrown- upon the ground, upon which another struggle ensued, and he kicked severely the warders who were trying to gain the mastery over him. As he lay in that position exhausted, his arms were strapped* and he was then raised to his feet. Jle walked towards the scaffold, attended by the chaplain, but at the sight of it he appeared to be again seized with a feeling of horror, and struggled with all his might and main to release himself, but in vain. He was dragged up the steps by the warders, and held under the beam until the rope was adjusted. In that state of things the rest of the preparations were hastily made, the bolt was drawn, aud the convict soon ceased to live;

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society's ranger and trapper, W. C. Ryland, has captured' on one estate 153 kestrels, falcons, ajid hawk?; '. These hjave been caught in the ordinary steel trap, in the setting and concealment of which Ryland appears to be eminently expert. The Secretary of the Olago Education .-Board has ■ 'advertised for a competent music masterjfor the public schools of tha fc province. The" following letter rolatirig to the death of Dr Livingstone is from Dr Kirk (a fellow traveller) to Mr Bates: — " Zanzibar? 26 Dec, 1866. I have written fully to Sir Roderick Murchison with all informa- ; tiori w.e yet have got regarding poor Livingston. Ou the sth December nine Johanna men of the party which accompanied Dr Livingstone ,- came to Zanzibar? reporting that sortie time' between the end of July and September, they were suddenly attacked by a band of Mazite, and that Dr Livingstone with half his party yvere mur- .. dered. Those who returned escaped, as they say, through being behind and unseen, and they all depose, to . having helped to . bury the dead boby of their leader the same evening. Although the accounts of these men vary in detail, they all agree that they saw the body, and that it had one wound, that of an axe, on the back of the neck. One man saw the fatal blow given. The attack was sudden, and Dr Livingstone had lime to overpower those who faced him, and was struggling to reload, when cut down from behind. I fear the story is true, and that we shall never know more of its details.'*' " " ' •