Shipping Intelligence. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1868.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 285, 2 December 1868, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1868.

The Airedale being advertised to leave for Wellington on Sunday next, we believe that, the English mail; via Panama, will probably close on Saturday evening. i A Wellington telegram, under /date of Saturday last, which is published in the Westport Times of Monday, gives some additional particulars of the late attack on the escort at Poverty Bay : — The latest news from Napier is that an escort proceeding with ammunition for the use of Westrupp's force has been attacked by a party of 20 Hauhaus. Eight kegs of ammunition were taken. The rebels, who were short of it, have thus got SUOO rounds. The Hauhaus, under. Kooti and others, are believed to be 500 strong, and 200 ot them, mounted, are said to be riding about Poverty Bay. Westrupp's force, all told, numbers 280. » The Lady Barkly, which returned this morning from Collingwood, brought 200 ounces of coarse nuggetty ;gold, consigned to the Bank: of New Zealand, a considerable portion of which came from the new goldfield at the head of the Aorere. "We understand that from 80 to 100 persons are now on the ground, and prospecting is being carried on with much activity in every direciion. The ground already discovered is very limited in extent, but it is believed that ere - long other discoveries of importance will he announced* and a general impression seems to prevail amongst the miners bn the ground that the coming summer will prove a lucky one. The Supreme Court continued its sittings in banco yesterday, when the two remaining appeal cases were disposed of: — William M'Raev.the Marlborough Waste Land Board, and W. JefFery v. John M'Hutcheson. In the former 7 case the appeal was from a decision of the Board, which had altered the boundaries of the appellant's run. Messrs Conolly and Pitt, appeared for the appellant, and the Court took time t-o- consider its judgment. In the -latter case tW appeal . was from a decision of the Resident Magistrate's Court at "Blenheim, which turned upon the question whether the written document whereby the sale had been effected of two, horses and other property, of which delivery had been 'taken but the chattels had not been removed, was a bill of sale of not: The Court reversed the decision of tbe Court below, which held that the writing "was a legitimate bill of gale. ' Judgment -in the cases of Porter v. Hori te Keramo aud M'Rae v. Marlborough Waste Lands Board >*will probably be given on Friday neki.-- - The monthly inspection of the City Volunteer Companies by the i Officer Commanding the distyict.igok ,pjiiqo yesterday teyißmng. p -SSfewfij was a ye ry Jfair. .muster, .^tjdHft ikrjg-e number of spectators were. •^ire_ent. After assembling ©a the parade-

ground at the rear,' of the J* Institute,- the i companies marched with.-, their band, and the two guns of the Artillery, Companies, to the mudflat at the end of Collingwoodstreet, where* ■ the inspection of arms having taken place, the No. 1 City Rifles and the Rifle Cadets piled arms, and the two companies of Artillery practised ball firing, at.a target erected at SOOyards* dis-. tance on the flat. The firing of both companies, considering their- previous want of practice, was decidedly good, and elicited much praise, the Cadets being, in one instance, warmly cheered by the bystanders. On_ the return of the companies to town an , accident of a very painful nalu re occurred near the Institute in Hardy-street, to Private «T. Ayery, of lhe Artillery Corps, one of his legs having been caught in the' wheel of the gun-carriage oil which he was riding. At first tt was imagined that the limb was broken, but we are happy to state that he has. sustained no more severe injury than a severe sprain. A correspondent calls our attention to the dangerous state of the Bridge-street Bridge, the flooring of which, it appears, has given way at the end nearest to the city, to the imminent peril of the. limbs of those who pass over it after dusk. - The Westport Times, Nov. 30, says, that Lieut Woods, R. N., by whom the survey of the coast to the southward of Okarita has been made, arrived in Westport by the Charles Edward. His object in visiting that part of the coast is to join his survey pt^rty, who are at present stationed at Cape Foulwind, and to proceed with the survey of the coast south and north of' that point, including the Steeples and their surrounding dangers to navigation. The Grrey River Argus, Nov. 28, states that a man named George Somers was lost in the bush for four days that week, while coming from the New River to Greymouth by Meehan's track. After wandering about three days and nights without" food, he found himself near the Owomototo Creek at sunrise on Thursday, but was «o faint that he did not reach town until 3 o'clock yesterday morning, when he made his way to the house on the quay where the Town Surveyor sleeps. He was. there taken in and sheltered, and during yesterday he became delirious, and was removed to the Hospital. The old Lake Brunner water- race scheme is about to be revived. The Grey River Argus says that 20 shareholders are about to commence to bring in a race, 6ft by 3ft 6iri, from even a higher level than the lake. The notorious Garrett has been sentenced at Dunedin -to six months' imprisonment for stealing a clock, and 12 months* imprisonment for having skeletonkeys. He was. also committed for trial upon two distinct charges — breaking into Mr Allen* s premises, Prince-street, and stealing from . Mr. Bagley's shop, 'Great King-street. Intelligence reached Napier on the 15th ult. that a very respectable native named Tafarapa, formerly in the employ of Mr Lowry, of Okawa, called upon that gentleman on the previous Tuesday with a beautiful specimen of quartz, filled with particles of gold. It was found in a creek of the Kaimanawa range, and he says that a. great, deal of quartz of equal richness -is to be found in the same place. It had only just been discovered. A European who was with him at the time, had gone to Wanganui with a similar specimen. Numbers of peasons who went to visit the recently-discovered goldfields at"Barossa and Jupiter Creek' in South Australia, are said tp have returned disappointed.. They assert that though gold undoubtedly exists there, it is thinly scattered, and not' .in su%ie_«; quantities to support a numerous population. , • ... "V--I/iteir accounts to hand from the Natal 'gold-field,- via Mauritius, are^w &"£"*

_«_M >> »»__ < M___»_«_^«w__»wwwaw_H-w^^ as previous ones. A sum of £5000 has however been voted by the Cape Parliament for the purpose of fitting out an expedition to explore the district. A report" was also current that a nugget; weighing l|lb had been discovered, but this was said to want confirmation.