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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 27 June 1872, Page 3

Nelson Coal.—The " Westport Times'' Ba yg : —« Dr. Hector was a passenger to Nelson yesterday by the ' Kennedy/ having completed his inspection of the coal area at Ngakawho. Wo have authority for etating that the favorable opinion expressed by him on his former; cursory examination of the locality, has now been amply confirmed ; and his report to the Provincial Executive will, .doubtless, be eminently favorable. The area now held by the prospectors comprises twenty acres of coal, exhibiting a thickness of sixteen feet, and all easily workable. Upon a very moderate computation, this will yield 200,000 tons of coal, and, beyond this area, coal out-crops are found for a long distance up Mount Rochofort The facilities for shipping are all that can be needed. Deep water, and abundance of stone for building wharves or piers. The prospectors intend sending , coal almost immediately to the Westport market where, at anything like a moderate price, it will command a ready sale. We hear that the prico at the Ngakawho will be ten shillings per ton. The 'Result' goes up during the week taking in tow the schooner Three Friends for the first cargoes.—May 28. " Manukau" writes :—" Iu yoar paper of March 30 you mention in the Naval and Military Ephemerides—' March 2S< 1560.— Repulse of the Colonial Forces by the Maoris.' In justice to the late Captain Cracroft, R.N., and the officers and men of H.M.S. Tiger, then on that station, I invite your attention to the fact that the Wairaka Pah, the object of attack, was captured, and also the Maori flag, which had been flying on it all the afternoon. This can scarcely be termed a defeat, and certainly was not considered so at the time."—" Army and Navy Gazette."

The " Evening Post" of June 4 says:—An amusing scene occurred at one of Mr. R. J. Duncan's auction sales. Acting under instruefcions from the Provisional Trustee in bankruptcy, Mr. Duncan offered for sale the Hutt omnibu*, horses and plant, in the insolvent estate of Walter Brown. The sale brought together a large number of spectators and Mr. Duncan mounted the 'bus for the purpose of commencing the sale, but he wa» interrupted by Mr. Ollivier who, on behalf of several creditors, protested against the sale proceeding. Mr. Duncan and his client, acting undtr the advice of Mr. Borlase, proceeded to sell, and did so after some discission. The whole proceeding was so much enjoyed by the spectators that they at last became excited, and a number of them seizing the 'bus, loaded as it wae with the auctioneer, trustee in bankruptcy, rival lawyers, and a number of other' gentlemen, quickly ran it out of the yard and down the street, where the 'bus and the precious freight were allowed to remain.