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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1972, 14 September 1863, Page 3

The Death of Nelson*. —Havingseen several letters ill ;he Times lately with reference to my name, I feel at length called on to come forward and state a few pai ticulars, which differ materially from your correspondent's statements of yesterday. It is true my old shiornate Collingwood, who has now being dead some years, did come in the poop for a short time. I had discovered the men in crouching in the tops of the Redoubtable, and pointed them out to him, when he took up a musket and fired once ; he then left the poop, I conclude, to return to his station on the quarter-deck. I r mained firing till there was not a man to be seen in the top ; the last one I saw coming down the mizen rig "in g, and he fell from my fire also. King, the quartermaster, was killed while in the act of handing me a parcel of ball-cartridge, long after Collingwood h a d left the poop. I remained there till some time after the” action was concluded, assisting in rigging the im /mast ; then I was ushered into the ward room, where Sir Thomas Hardy and other officers were assembled, and complimented by them as the person who avenged Lord Nelson’s death, which fact was aft awards' 3 gazetted. Far from wishing to disparage m old friend Collingwood, I only wish he had received the honours due to him for having shared in that great naval action.—J. Pollard, Lieutenant H.N., in the Times. Prince William of Denmark ascends the Grecian throne as George 1., King of the Greeks—not King of Greece, as Otho was styled. The Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden have j decided on the extinction of the gambling-tables on j the 31st of October, 1866, when their lease will have, expired.