NELSON.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 54, 11 March 1846, Page 4

NELSON.

Haovest.— Harvest being now pretty well over, we are glad to be able to sate that the late season, the driest we have yet experienced in the Culony, hue not seriously affected the crops, except wheie the sowing was exceedingly late. The average crop of wheat, of which there were 900 acres in thu set. tleinent, is estimated at iw.nty-iive bushels. The crop of barley is generally very good. Shipbuilding.—ln addition to three coasters just registered at this .port—the Erino, the Sarah Berry, andthe Ocean Queen—there are two others nearly ready for launching;: one measuring about 35 tons, building by MKenzie, on the Haven-road, and the other about 25 tons, by Freeman, at Jthe Matuaka. We hear 'there are *three others to be commenced with immediately : one, a vessel of 200 tons, and two-small craft of about 30 tons each. WitEOK. op the Guide —The brig Guide, which had been run on shore at Wakapuaka in a gale of wind, on the morning of the 22udu!t., would in all probability be got off and brought to Ne.'son. On Thursday last, the and ballast having been discharged and the necessary temporary repairs nrnde, she was got afloat, but almost instantly a gale of wind sprung up, and she was agahvdriven on shore. Alter bumping for a couple of Jiours without apparently sustaining much damage, she was struck by a heavy g ta which shivered her bottom from end to end. At low water it was found the damage she had received was more than was worth repairing in bo old a vessel, and all idea of bringing her to Nelson was abandoned. On stripping oft" the copper, which was nearly new, the decayed elate of her timbers was made apparen , -. Accident. —A man named Trigell was drowned near the mouth of the Waimea on Saturday afternoon. The deceased had the steer oar of a boat laden with firewood, and missing his stroke fell overboard. Two other men who were in 'the boat sta'e that though they strove their utmost for twenty niinut. s to pick the poor fellow up, during all which time he kept himself above water, they were unable from the strength of the tide and wind to get near him. The body has not yet been found.