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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 61, 15 March 1869, Page 2

New Zealand Timber. — Auother large shipment of red pine logs is being made by Messrs Cohen Brothers. The logs are being put on board the Sarah and Mary, bound for Melbourne, and some of them are of immeuse size. We believe a large demand for this timber is springing up in Melbourne, it haviug been found that the wood is excellent for the manufacture of furniture. — West Coast Times. Amoug other telegrams the Lyttelton Tunes publishes the following: — Wellington, March 9, 1869. Telegrams from Blenheim state that on February 24, a topsail schooner put into Port Underwood laden with ammunition. She came from the South and remained till the 27th, when she left nominally for Fiji. It is supposed she was really bound for some part of the coast of the North Island to land ammunition for the rebels. The following is an Aucklander's description of the Empire City, the seat of Government : — " Oh, if you only knew what a horrible place this is, you would pity those poor creatures who have to live in it. Mr F. most sensibly remarked that ' it should be the penal settlement for the whole island.' It is punishment in itself to live here, and we have served four year 3 now, aud deserve a ticket of leave. Wellington is famous for maimed people, clubfeet, one eye, one arm, one leg, and those who escape any of these deformities are characterised by a lethargy and geueral sleepiness and stupidity, and, as I have uot lost any limbs, I fear the sleepiness will come over me. Oh, the horrible place. One doomed to live here. Only to contemplate it."— Weekly Nezos. The Otago Sun speaking of the Fine Arts Exhibition, says: — " Passiug into an adjoining room, the visitor will find there the beautiful sketches by Mr. W. Fox. They are arranged in order — New Zealand, Tasmania, Victoria, Ceylon, Havannah, Brazil, North America, and the Holy Land. In number, excellence, and interest, the collection is such as has very rarely indeed been painted by one who is not a professional artist, and there can be no doubt as to the general verdict respecting the value of Mr. Fox's contribution to Otago's first Fine Art Exhibition. Mr. Fox has also scut twenty or thirty fine photographs, from Eastern ruius, or still complete buildingsof historical interest. . .On the same wall, that to the right on entering the room, hangs a very spirited work by Major Von Tempsky ; the interest of which will be enhanced by the fact that that brave soldier, very shortly before he fell in fight, with the uatives, sent the picture to Mr. W. Fox, M.H.R., by whom it is exhibited. Major Von Tempsky has shown the Forest Rangers, of which he was in command, marching past General Chute and Dr. Featherston; and there is i a portrait of the artist himself, as well as portraits of some noted Maoris, including the wife of him who was the guide, and of I ' Bloody Mary.'"