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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 191, 16 August 1867, Page 2

The Melbourne papers notice the death, on the 3rd instant, at the comparatively early age of fifty-six, of Mr. Dalmahoy Campbell, one of the first pioneers of the Western District of Victoria, and the chief representative of the wellknown firm of D. Campbell & Co., stock salesmen and commission agents, iv Melbourne. A Sydney telegram, which appears in the Argus of the sth, states that the New South Wales Government is likely to repeal the Newspaper Postage Act. We •trust that the precedent will be followed nearer home. The Floods relief Committee of New , South Wales has expended a thousand pounds on seed for the Hunter district, and a corresponding amount for the Hawkesbury. ; The object of this is to set the "farmers to work at once, and to secure, if possible, a crop this season. It is to be toped, therefore, that there will be no second flood this winter to destroy the value of what is thus invested. Something must be risked. "He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that.regardeth the clouds shall not reap." The sum of £2000 has been raised ia Melbourne towards the fund. The trial of Scale and Ballan, for the murder of Mr Burke, at Smythesdale, has concluded.. Bofh prisoners were sen.tenced to death, and were ordered for • execution last week. v