NELSON.
A claim haa been sent into the Government for the gold bonus, by Alexander Campbell and Co., who claim to have discovered a payable gold field on the banks of the Matiri, one of the tributaries of the Buller. This river is the next of any size above the Lyell, nnd may be reached either by the road through Black-valley, or by crossing the range at the head of the Tadmor.
Information as regards these diggings has been ia Nelson for some weeks, but the digger*, to whom the intelligence was communicated, refrained from going an til the weather should settle. Several, we believe, leave this day. We are informed that there is plenty of ground, and, should it all turn ont what is said — " three pennyweights to a tin dish" — we do noi doubt of a large rush of miners.— -Examiner, 106h, in«t.
The correspondent of tho Colonist, writing 1 on the 23rd ultimo, says ; — I promised you in leaving Nelson I would give you any information I could gather respecting this district. I am happy to inform you from intelligence obtained from the various diggers passing to and from tha Mangles district, all agree in the same opinion tha t there is a good available gold field — ons that will yield from L7to L 8 per man per week. The diggers who arc up here are all very sanguine of success, and and arc waiting only for the rivers to fall so as to enable them fairly to set in; one great drawback is the distance they have to carry provisions, but all agree that when the road is open to the grassy plains, that obstacle will be removed ; they will then be able to pack up all the requisites on horses. I may state here the road will be open to the plains ia two or three weeks; many of the men have horses ready, but at present there is no flat ready to place horses an to feed nearer than the Howard.
SELF Decapitaion. — Public attention at Naples, says the Times' correspondent, writing on May 9, has been occupied for some day 3by one of the most extraordinary cases of suicide perhaps on record A Frenchman in good circumstances has for a year or more tenanted a small house close to the Hotel Le Sran Bretagna, on the road to Qui si Sana, close to Castelamare. Singular in his habits, it was the common opinion that his mind was affected. On fast days he insisted on having fish served of a particular length; and on other days a fowl of a pnjticular size i nnd measurement. Woe to the landlord if his orders were not obeyed to the letter. Most of lus time was spent in strict seclusion, when he occupied himself iv making machinery, but of what kind was unknown, as no one was permitted to enter his room. On the night of the 24th of April a heavy sound was heard in the house, but it led to no inquiry, asM. Couvreux was a man of such peculiar habits. The next day, however, some alarm was created by his non-appear-ance, and the police were sent for. To repeated knocks no answer was returned, and at last the wall when thwas broken through, and the room entered, Mowing scene presented itself; — A perfectly formed guillotine stqoxl in the centre of the doorway leading into another room; the knife had fallen, and on this side lay a body, while in the other room lay the head of the poor victim of insanity. On the table was a letter directed to his brother in Paris, in which is a will wliich, among other bequests, leaves 1000 francs to his landlord, and 1000 francs to an inhabitant of Castellamaro. Regular in his pavements and conduct, he seems to have had but one object in life, which was to construct the instrument of his death, and it is described as being of the niO3t delicate construction. There is nothing to be added to this sad and extaumlinary tale except that the unfornate man had emasculated himself previously to bj& self-decapitation.
Charles 11. having asked at a levee how one of his envoys, lately sent to a half-civilised country, had fared, was informed that he had been ' well roasted. 1 c I'll take care (said His Majesty) how I send a raw ambassador again.' ' •
Printed for the Proprietors by Daniel Oampbem» at the Otago Withem Qnioi, PrJuues-titKet.
NELSON.
Otago Witness, Issue 621, 24 October 1863, Page 8
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