WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 287, 8 December 1869, Page 2

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.

[by electric telegraph. "l G__eymoot__. — Wind W., light; blue sky. Bar good. ' - Hokitika. — WindN.W., light; blue sky. Bar good. , Wellington.— Wind S.E., light; overcast. Wanganui. — Calm; overcast. •Napier. — Wind S.W., light; ovdrcast. Sea, slight swell. Blenheim. — Calm ; blue sky. Rivers high. Lyttelton. — Wind N.E., light; blue sky. Christchukch. — Wind NE., light breeze; blue sky. ..... Tdiahu. — Wind N.E., light breeze; blue sky. . Sea, calm. „_ Bealy.— Calm ; blue sky. Rivers low. • •• DoNEDiN.— -WindN.E., light; blue sky. Port Chalmers. — N.E., breeze; blue sky. Queenstown. — Calm ; blue sky. 7: Bltjff— -Wind E, light; blue sky. N.B.— All the observations are taken at 9 a.m.

" Or the Gold exported last year, the value from the Nelson mines was £833,180; from tbose of Westland, £814,060.; from Otago, £652,356; Auckland, £168,874; Southland, £34,240; aad Marlborough, £1)616. *'•--■ Wire Trastwats are coming into use ''" on the Moanataiari Creek at the Thames. One of these stretches across the Moanataiari Valley, and one of the wires was, according to the Thames Times, stretched ; -the other day. In order to test its efficiency, an adyenturous digger slung himself to the . .traveller, cand,. bidding a cheery good-bye ... to. ljis mates, who looked on admiringly, 7 shot; across the wide gulf in spans: at a . great rate, and landed safely on the other v side. ..Both the wires of the Shooting Star I line, are stretched and tightened, aud trucks., . are likely; to be running on them ih the -course of a week or ten days. ■■■ , jTHEicourse of events -in Aucklaud for „f; the( l ast; .year ; . (says the, , XEvening Post), p teaches us a. lesson which we ought to lay' ' ...to.bear.t. ; „Notwithstan,ding;our many discouragements, it is yet possible that we / ~may/bave a^ payaßle/.gpldfield . in our own 'province; 1 and, if/we are so fortunate, we „ „ : ought v fco avoid share speculations- like we~ /would a pestilence, and /confine ourselves ; Xjiito}XJbpnri ■tfide, ; legitimate . mining. \ Our „ progress may be slower Vwe may jwiinV ;, f the 7 dash/ . and , ; eclat ; of . our; northern • ;;_'■ neighbor./ bnt though we may go imore,"' /slowly,, we.. ; shall' proceed more surely-^ y'y, fair arid; easytgo far in a day." /Nelson //is ißettipg us/an exampliß in this respect/f cc^Payable reefs: have been 'discovered y bptli? I /yfit / Wa%apek a' "and "Collingwood, j with &|Sprssp ectscwfeich / ; might /temptr apeculitibti^ - l^iafctfthe S^Kareß^/iwitlfci i£l_|pklb^arb' i!jgbt ijip .' i^ the; ' of legitimate mining, and ' specu|rj3a^raiir£^ / ,may ; not be forturiate;; enough to discover fs*icl_ir^^^^ tiiufc;-- jf £ ;:?we should^. let us keep, the scrip mania of Mttt.e?.Thamej3{.befo^^ ?t_&&.T..'i.'>.,^ '•%%'^«s.i*?aSf**'&§%^T'fe