AUGKLAND.

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

AUGKLAND.

p P £y"P~'£" ; December 2. 7 The result of the Superintendency election :officially declared to-dayon favor af Mr. Gillies, who made a very temperate ' speech] .. - Mr. Williamson charged his opponents with being "partisans, employing base means, propogatihg malicious slanders, &c., amidst derisive cheers end laughter. ... Mr. G-illies said if rowdyism was again'attempted during his Superintendency, he would put it down with a strong hand. •'." /' "y"~ The Provincial Council " elections are causing much excitement. . ."" ' Miners are flocking to the Qhineiriuri. Fresh specimens, aud a new leader discovered in the Shotover, have caused a great rise in that company's scrip, which is bought up at 255. Crushing from the Kurariui, for the. month of November, 1 090 tons, wliich gave 4893 ounces. Shotover, 400 ounces. .-.',""/

Accident.'— - We regret to learn! that a serious accident ' occurred yesterday afternoon to the Yen. Archdeacon Butt, who was starting for the Wairau, on a newly-purchased horse which, shortly after crossing the Maitai,' ia Hardy-street, commenced bucking, and iri a short time threw its rider, who, in the fall, broke his left leg just below the/knee. Mr Batt was immediately conveyed into the house of Mr. W. AdamSj,- and Dr. Cotterell sent for; we regret to learn that the fracture is likely to confine the reverend gentleman to his bed for some time. Theke appears to... be some probability of a gas company being started in Greymouth. One-half of the cargo of the barque l^ella Vista, which is now daily expected, consists of gas pipes arid packages of ironmongery.. The prisoners in Dunedin gaol have benefited by the arrival of the Maori . prisoners there. Tobacco was allowed to ths Maoris, and, to prevent dissatisfaction, . it has been given to all. The Sturfc has landed at Patea the material, for three block-houses, which are to be immediately erected between Patea ond Waihi. "Each block-house . will form 'the "ccn tre of the ten-acre "allotments, of bona fide settlers. _ A man named Samuel Jew /was fined £53 at Napier, the other day for unlawfully selling three bottles of rum. " : A son of Sir Henry Manners Sutton, the Governor of Victoria, is at .present on a visit to Hokitika. / _ /" "__."/ '_/.., A. Large Se_a.te weighing. 120 lbs., : says the Wanganui Chronicle, was brought over there by the s.s. Wallabi otf her last trip. This marine monster had accidentally v got hooked on a drag line when the steamer was off the Buller bar. Tt is said to/be the largest yet caught on the West Coast, and probably as large as any itnown ph ihese shores. . „,-.. „..;. .. ■' •: -•_■•';. .Y-. • ..•> ' The . i New " Zealand ; Metropolitan Meeting is to. be held.on. the Christchurch racecourse during the visit of the;; Flying ;. Squadron to Lyttelton, arid as nlear the : following dates as namely, the /4tb', sth, , and' 6th 'January, 'J&Wti; The total amount of money offered Toi* races still-open to entry is £1210, ihMevents, the greaKone being, ttfe Canterbury Cup of £300, added to- a -sweepstake/~qf £20 'each/ £5 forfeit; ■'.'' ;'7 :: -'/ ' ! ' iy- "};"' .7 c, A ,^died at /Parawai, . Auckland.!. JBe.is _said ..to have been, a quiet, peaceable many.and7.tp* have " cdone. good service. tovwdsopeningf up the Thames goldfield. A " tan gi^-fool? place bveFhlsrremains^a/ lafge^uraherT'if nativesbeingi present. '/-.Their grief, however, appears to have bad little effect .upon their appetites, for we 'lfiam 'from an /Auckland contemporary that U ;.t,wd;cows; tea pigs, , ope -thousand loaves; ten 'bags off biscuits, half a ton -of-potatoes, -twenty bags of sugar, ;and : an unlimite .Tjsupply/ of tea, weresconsume^.".. 1 ; 7T-;yj7; v^ r: - 'Tni'tfew; 'Governor ' WWeiife __r Ans^ . tralia.. (says, the .Argm) r PMx. -Weld, seems , likely to, prove a < yjgoroflS;ciadfftia?strator. , Though it is only, ajfewY weeks since he. entered upon the discharge of his duties, he; is '/ already^/aj^^^ the planning fout/bf /j_ns^^ and_ has^nxite'dLMr^ ....pf ..this, cijtyi ; :; tb.prp,ceed ; jto; .. Westetfty/Aus- .;. tralia,. W& assislt. him '(Mr. Weld)>with his ; -; professiofl^.^vice;';:;;;^;^/;^ 'yyiXXXpy- y j/ySlee^^ ; iva'yb^e^li^e/i^i-He^lC^^tasliMeicattout ; thie affairs 'bfd&ere cloes Iwfci&wn, -/

The Wagga Wagga Express says:—--..^l'sA'Bplebdid cake of gold, weighing no .'Lless'thaiis47 ounces, the produce bf .159 , tons of quartz from a claim on the Eagl^- '. [ ha*wk7Reef, at Juhee^ was lately brought 'into town and safely deposited in 'the „: ;-bant.'; -bant.' ,- •..,., : .-• ',•■ :■ -"• How the Chinese,.. manage ;their BEiTiES.-rrAfter a long period of wet „ "feather, when they have prayed vainly ;.;..;for. relief, they pat their gods out in tbe rain to see how tbey like it. i'p.V.' ii" "' '

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