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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 116, 18 May 1868, Page 2

The Grey River Argus of the 12th states that the whole of the barges, horses, .towing gear, &c, lately belonging to the Nelson Coal Company>,havebeen purchased "by Mr Kilgour, of Grey mouth. The following appears in the Queenslander, of the 25th April: —The question of relief to able-bodied and destitute persons came rather suddenly upon the Municipal Council of Maryborough last week, as we learn from the local papers just to hand. 62 'starved-ont diggers' presented a petition for relief to that worshipful body at their meeting on the 16th inst. The petition set forth that the petitioners had been 'deluded and misguided' by the different reports which had appeared in the papers, and had come to that part of the colony for the purpose of earning an honest livelihood, but after spending what little means they had on arrival, they found nothing beiore them but starvation. The Municipal Council suspended their Standing Orders at once, to consider the petition, and having decided without much trouble that there were no Corporation funds available, either to find employment for these men, of afford them relief in any way, they fell back naturally enough upon * the Government.' )