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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 14, 17 January 1871, Page 2

The chief Ihia, has reported that the banks of the Mokau river, Taranaki, are lined with coal. The election of «a Superintendent is now engrossing the attention of the people of Otago. Mr. Macandrew, the present Superintendent, and Mr. Donald Beid, the Provincial Secretary, are the present candidates. A Woman named Cooper, living at Newmarket, has died through a fly, which had just before been on a poisoued flypaper, alighting on her nose and communicating the poison to the wound. Two hundred bales of silk recently passed through Omaha, shipped direct from China to London.

The value of the West Coast goldfields as a market, for the produce of the older settlements, was, perhaps, never more strikinaly illustrated than in the shipments of fruit, poultry, vegetables, eggs aud butter, brought by the numerous steamers during the present seasou. On her last trip the s.s. Mnrray brought 347 cases, or seventeen tons, of apples consigned to various dealers at Westporf, Greymouth and ITokitika. — Westport Times. At Harai'ipi, Waikato, which is close to the Si-ene of the recent murder of Mr. Todd, the feeling of insecurity is so great, that all the settlers, with their wives and families, sleep in the blockhouse every ni<;ht. The London Standard, in an article ou tho defence of England, counsels the formation of an immeriso central arseuel, with railway communications, like arteries, reaching to every distant point. i At Invercargill, Dr. Can 1 , the mesj^Hisf., has been fined a farthing for an asSHpv on a resident at Wintou, named King. Each party was adjudged to pay his own costs. An abandoned claim ou tho river bank between Clyde and Cromwell has recently been re-worked by some miners, who have been rewarded for their enterprise by getting about £15 per week out of it. An old and respected colonist, says the Southern Ci-oss, Captain Deloitte, died on Tuesday, December 13, at Sydney. The deceased gentleman was the first to open up the trade between New Zealand and New South Wales, having planted the British ensign at Hokiauga. A Lyttelton paper says there seems a probability of young Austin, the pedestrian, figuring in another race shortly. Mr. Marchanr, the owner of the racehorses Black Doctor and Lunatic, has offered to run either of the above horses against Austin, a distance of 100 yards, over fire hurdles. Austin has accepted the challepge, and it is probable that in a few days the match will be fairly underweigh. Should this novel match come off, we anticipate, from the now well-known prowess of Austin as a ped, an exciting contest. " Jedekiah, didn't you find courtship bliss?" "Yes, indeed," said Jed, "but I found matrimony blister." It is nearly as impossible to gefc money out of a miser as it would* be for a butcher to get lamb chops out of a batter-ing-ram. .Something Wrong with the Horse. — -A mau in Yorkshire " swoped " his horse for a wife. An old batchelor acquaintance said he'd bet there was somethiDg wroug with the horse, or its owner never would have fooled it away in that manner. For remainder of News see Fourth page.