NELSON.

Otago Witness, Issue 560, 23 August 1862, Page 3

NELSON.

(prom tub daily times correspondent.) August 11, 1862. Our Provincial Council eloped their labors on the 15th ultimo, when His Honor the Superintendent delivered the usual address. The steamer Tasmanhn Maid, whose wreck and recoveiy were icported in my labt, has arrived safely in Nelson harbor, and having received some slight repairs she is again ready for sea; and will start oa Wednesday for Motueka and O6Hingwood. The lighthougft erected oa tW'i3ould«r Bank v now

complete 1, and is a handsome it on structure 60 feet above the level of high water. The illuminating apparatus, is a eatadioptrio light of the fourth order, fixed. The light is produced by an oil lamp with a double circular wick and is concentrated and thrown i in the desired direction by means of silver reflectors placed at the back of tho lamp A li_,'!it will be seen for a distance of 12} nautu'itl mile-. It has been in operation .since Monday last. The lighthouse has bcea ordered from England by, and has been erected under the superintendence of Mr. J. Blackett, the Provincial Engineer, and reflects on him much credit. An oil veteran died here the other day, named Henry Thomas Persona, a«ed 77. He was a seaman onboard li. M. ship Trafalgar it the bnttL- of the i Nile, when the immortal Nelson received his deathwound. dir gold-fields are progressing steadily, aud favorable reports coptimie to arrive from the West Coa4. The schooner Gipsy arrived from there last week with 200 ozs., amlit is reported that a nugget weighing 14 oz3. 13 dwU. has'been fouud, • anJ sold ou the tiiggiugs for JCb'O. The barque Knight Bruce, has arrived from England, after a lengthy passage of 154 days. Her , captain died on the voyage on the 27t\i May, his I dcatn having been attributed to his having slept on n damp bed at tiie commencement of the voyage. j The weather his been very inclement hitely, and Nelson folks have been troubled with a disease called I '"the mumps" — not confine.l as in England, to young children and school-boys— 'out attacking aho persons ! of adult age. The schooner City of Nelson, about whose safety doubte were expressed in my last letter, has arrived back at Nelson all right, having been detained, wind bound, in one of the smaii lurbjrs on the West j Coist. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held last week, it was res^vel to memorialize the General Assembly to re-establish the District Court or soino [ other mr-ans of recovciing sums up to £101), without waiting tor tho sitting of the .•Supi'em j Court. The Government wharf has been let by auction at i a rent ot £510 for a year. An election of four members of the Board of Works, took place on the 2l>t ult., and caused considerable excitement. A report read at tho meeting, showed that the revenue for the past year had been £3742 15d. 4d. , deiivedin a great 'mw-.ure from direct tax upon leil proji.nty of £d. in the pound upon the value to sell. The new members c eeto'l aie Messrs. J. Webb, W. Wright, J. Be.iily, and F. Sail. Mr. Alfred launders (whose name was struck off the roll of Justices of the Pcac>, in consequence of his haviiur being com ieted of libel and sentenced to six. month's imprUonmpnt,) has been again made a J.P. by the Fox Alin'stry. I lieu- that in consequence of this, the ma'/wtiMtes of the district in which i-e residf.s, (Richmond) h ivp cc.ved to sit on tie B.;nch. Prizes given by the Provincial Government of Nel-ou for the hist shots amount the Volunteers, have been presented to Me.sis. W. 11. West, S. Hoult, W. Kent, J. Stirgli'kon, and A. Hunter. Ohro.ne is bein.r brought down by the Dun Mountain Company, and shipped in larj>e quantities, about 500 tons having b -en sent off this month. About half a ton of copper— a splendid sample— has been obtained from Aniseed Valley, -mil sent to Sydney for analysis. Plumbago is al-o being manufactured here, O'i an extensive scale by Mcsr*. Witsc.ihemii and Co., and is ofa better quality than th it hitherto imported from England. It co.ium from Pakenu, via CoUingwood, nnd there are throe dis'imit seams of it, one of them l-> fret thick. A Co-op'T.uivr Association is projected by some members of the working classes, for the supply of meat and provL-iuns &c. at a reduced rate. Similar sjcieties have dour well in .=Oiiie parts of England, and this may therefore succi'ed. The Airedale an i\vd from Sydney yesterday, after a long and todi ms pa*- ig^ of 9 days. Six'hoi-s^s, consigned to Canterbury, <( ,11 died on fh.; passage. The be*t news brought by thn vossol is, that the Australasian iSte.ua Company are about to put on a lurge steamer to run monthly between Sydney and the Southern settlements of New Zealand, making Nelson the first and List poi-t of call.