MOKIHINUI.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 260, 1 June 1868, Page 3

MOKIHINUI.

(eboit a cobbespondent). Mokihinui, May 29. According to promise, I send you another letter; the Mokihinui boys not being content with one day's sports in honor of her Majesty's birthday, in fact it must be considered a busy week a magistrate's and a warden's Court being held. Also to clinch everything and give the last kick to the Mokihinui, the men who have been prospecting for the last six weeks were duffered out. Great interest was felt at the Magistrates Court in a case Hyams v. Stitt, wherein Hyaros sued Stitt for assault which ended in the case being dismissed, also a mining case of little interest, and several jumping cases. The news from up-river to hand are very meagre* There are three parties working about 20 miles up, the bad weather interfering with them greatly, the principal work being in the bed of the river. Winey and party, who have just come down after a two months stay, brought down, ten ounces of gold. They advise any person going up prospecting in future to prospect the terraces, being at any moment liable to be flooded out in the river, after weeks of labor in bringing up tailraces, &c. That there is good gold in the bed of the river is beyond doubt.

The business people, to mark a sense of the perseverance displayed by the miners prospecting the North Terrace, have invited them to a grand ball and supper, which is to be held this evening. The wrestling was decided as follows : —The pairs were Hamilton and M'G-owan, Eilbeck and Craig, and Hall and "Williams. In throwing off, Hamilton threw M'Gowan ; Hall made "Williams kiss the ground after a severe struggle. After a severe contest Hall became the victor, throwing Eilbeck in fine style.

An Uncomfortable Predicament —A few mornings since, a young gentleman went to bathe in the East river, at a secluded spot above Green Point. The water being rather cooler than he expected, after swimming about for some minutes, he returned to the bank and was proceeding to dress himself, when a Durham bull moved in stately form towards him, pawing the ground, tossing his head, and switching his tail. The bather, perceiving the acquaintance becoming rather close, shook his coat at the animal to deter him, but this appeared to have been taken as an invitation to advance, and the animal came on at an accelerated pace, when the poor wight was compelled to save himself by jumping into

the river. He was no sooner Bubmerged than the bull took his clothes on his horn, and pitched them one after the other into the water. The gentleman caught his clothe hj, and hung by the bank, trying occasionally to escape, but the bull guarded the bank so as to prevent a retreat. He was thus kept in the water for three hours, until discovered by some persons passing, who drove away the Durham, and released the benumbed bather from his unpleasant position.