Local Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 49, 19 June 1858, Page 3

Local Intelligence.

Nelson Debentures. — We have the pleasure of announcing that, by the William Alfred, official news has arrived that our Provincial Government Debentures, to the amount £ 1 5,000, were taken up in Sydney, on the 21st May. The debentures were disposed of at a premium of £\ 10s. 6d., which is considered by the Inspector of the Union Bank, under whose superintendence the negotiation was effected, as highly satisfactory. This 5,000 is now placed to the credit of the province ; and, as we understand that another portion of the debentures have been taken up in Nelson, it is to be hoped that no unnecessary delay will take place in carrying out those public works for which the money has been borrowed. View of Nelson. — We have seen a photographic view of the town which has just been taken by Mr. Crombie, for the purpose of being forwarded to the Illustrated London News. The picture consists of four sections, which, when joined at their edges, will form a complete view of the town from the entrance of the Maitai Valley to Green Point on the Haven*road. The view is taken from a point of land about half-a-mile from town, on the Wakapuaka-road, and the spot has been well chosen, for our town preseuts in the picture quite an extensive and important appearance. Mr. Crorabie is entitled to great credit for his endeavours thus to bring before the English public such a correct view of the chief town of the province. Expensive Pork. — At the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday, James Dougherty was convicted of stealing two pieces of pork and a bottle of porter from theWakatu Hotel, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. New Wesleyan Chapel. — This commodious edifice was opened for divine service last evening, on which occasion a sermon was preached by the Rev. J. Warren. The chapel is a handsome wooden erection, weatherboarded outside, and lined with lath and plaster. Mr. Beatson is the architect, and Messrs. Robinson and Black are the builders of the chapel, which does credit to them, all, for it is really an ornament to our town. We understand that it will seat between 300 and 400 persons, and that the cost of its erection, including the purchase of the acre of ground on which it stands, will amount to about £2,200. Three

sermons will be preached in t <c ohanel «> Sunday next, by the Revds. E. Thomas and P. Calder, and by W. Beatson, Esq., and a tea and public meeting will be held on the following Tuesday evening. The late case of Drowning. — Th* arrival in town of Mr. A. Dobson, enables us to furnish our readers with fuller particulars of the melancholy occurrence which resulted in the death of Mr. John Burns. It appears that the deceased, in company with Mr. Dobson, had been absent from Nelson some weeks, and travelling in the neighbourhood of the Waiau-ua river, with the view of discovering some land suitable for a sheep run. . The) were, by the height of the river, detained for some time at the entrance of the gorge above the Hanmer Plain, but, on Wednesday the 19th May, having found that the river had fallen considerably, they started down the gorge, in which the river had to be crossed four times. They had got through all the worst part, when in taking the last fall but one, they entered the river too low down, going in abreast of each other, and were almost immediately engulphed in the deep run below the ford. The horses both disengaged themselves about the same time. Mr. Dobson last saw the deceased not far from the left bank, disengaging himself from his horse. For a moment Mr. Dobson held on to his saddle-bags, but his mare rolling back upon him he let go, and was immediately drawn down, and it was only after great efforts, that he succeeded in reaching the left bank by swimming. Mr. Dobson's mare landed on the on the same side ; Mr. Burns's horse on the opposite side of the river. After a long and unsuccessful search for the body of the deceased, Mr. Dobson started for Leslie, on the Hurnnui Plain, which he reached by sunset the following evening, and on the Saturday regained the scene of the accident, and with the assistance of Mr. Knyvett succeeded in regaining the horses, but could find no traces of the body. Although the river at the time of this accident was quite low at the upper end of the gorge, the water at the lower end had not fallen to its former level, and the ford was consequently disguised. Further search will be made for the body of the deceased, which there are hopes of recovering. The I spot where the accident occurred is from 15 to 18 miles distant from the nearest station. Gold Bonus. — A meeting of the subscribers to the Gold Bonus was called for yesterday afternoon, but only one or two persons in addition to the Honorary Secretary attended, and the meeting was therefore adjourned until Wednesday evening next, when it is hoped that the subscribers will attend in larger numbers, so that this much-vexed question may have some chance of being definitely settled. The Effects of a Dirty Chimney. — As will be seen by a reference to our police report, Mr. Everett has been fined 10s. and costs for allowing his chimney to take fire. This should act as a caution to housekeepers to keep their chimneys well swept, not only on account of the fine for the neglect, but also because of the danger resulting from a chimney on fire in a town built principally of wood. Sale of Stock. —At the sale at Woodstock Park, on Thursday last, cattle and horses realized satisfactory prices. Good milch cows brought from a6lO to a 613 each; a team of working bullocks fetched ; a fine cart filly, in foal, £ 1 00 ; two-year old cart geldings, a 640 each ; Wildrake, a two-year old colt, entered for the Nelson Trial Stakes (own brother (o Phoebe), £115; the mare, Miss Rowe, £67 ; a filly foal, out of Woodstock (Phoebe's dam), by St. Aubin, a£4o; ordinary mares about £40 each. Sporting. — The thorough-bred horse Socrates was landed from the brig Spray on Thursday last. Socrates is by Calendar, the sire of Camden, and is the winner of several races on the New South Wales Turf.