NELSON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 November 1853, Page 3

NELSON.

(From llie Nelson Examiner.) Land Sale. — Fifty.seven lots of Crown Land, consisting ol town, suburban, and rural were offered for sale l>y the Sub* Treasuoer, at the Land office on Monday. About one half of the lots were disposed of and a considerable portion of tho remaining ones have since been takeu up tit the upset price. The net proceeds of the auction was £1,1 35 — in land scrip, for not "a penny of money was paid on the occasion. A few of the lo:s were competed for but generally they went at (he upset price, Tlie present state of the rood-> in this settlement is a serious matter lo the residents of the town, as well ns of the country,

for while ihejl<4ter find difficulty in fending

their produce lo market, the foirhtr pufTei in nearly nn equal decree by the jjvcarciiy and high prices which b<id roads and want of communication creates. It will be among the first duties ot the Provincial Council, when it assemble*, to put the trunk lines of roal ii repair, an 1 tr» do this a local ux of one kind or another will have to l,e raised, for tlieou'.lay required will be lar beyond any sum thnt can be .-.pared from the Revenue of the Province. Dun Mountain Copper Mine. — The

Australian <md New Zetland Gazette, of the 9'h ol April, contains a prospectus pr eiUblishiiig a company to work the Dun Mountain Copper Mine, and which appears to be issued by ponies in England wholly unconnected with the lessees of the mine, and who are in fact, ignorant of the

posiiioii in which it stands. Tlie whole thing is perhaps ns pretty mi illustittion of | thff way in whicli companies ore sometimes | (jot up iii England us ever ocsurred, nnd is c.ilculnt d tn seriously injuru the eflbit ( which is about io be made to form a legitim lie coinpanv to work ilk'sk minos | ! ftttmin aid FrRciQM Bini.u Socir.TV. 11 — On Siiinlay « veiling, the *ih ultimo, a sent on was piC'ichoil in the Wosleyan t-'hnpel, Nelson, by the Rev. R. IroiiS'de, on behalf ol the Jubilee I'und of the liiiiisli nnd Foreign Biblf Society. A'ler discoursing o:i ilib diviitp ntn/iority nnc l claim 1 ' of the Bible fiom Isaiah xxxiv., 1 0'h tlie preacher concluded by s<"tt : ng forth the I ')o!i;,Mtli>n ofVlirislia is gemrallv :d iupport the no'ilc Hiul pli.liiiiihropii.' IrKUU'.ioii which hits jtiit enti-ri'd upon its juhtlop yeir. The conjiegptii n rcipon'lcd mo^i liberally to tbe r.itl, nnil ths cdleciion for tlie funds « as nearly five pounds, \v)i ich .^uni has gince bet n made up.