WESTPORT ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 7

WESTPORT ITEMS.

■» NEW COAL-BOKIXG PEOJECT. (By TclCEraph.—Special Correspondents Westport, March 21. The Westport Harbour Board has dociilccl to procure a diamond orill with accessories for Iho purpose of boring for coal on its endowments. It was also decided that, in the event of the Government being able to supply boring plant, JIIOOO would be placed at fixed deposit as tho nucleus of a fund to maintain the cost of boring and machinery. Many of the broad Hals within easy reach of Westporl Harbour are considered lo be coal-beariug, and easilv workable. A petition of 200 Wfitport residents, praying tie Harbour Hoard lo run Sunday excursion trains to the seaside resort at Cape Koulwind, met with the favourable support of the lro.ird, am! the sci'vice. is to lie given a three months' trial. Year after year similar application has been made, but always rejected. Mr. T. F. Mnnrn, promoter of several mining ventures in I his district, is visiting Australia, primarily with the object of inducing capitalists to exploit the Ifed Queen f|uart/. district whom a reef, from which exceptional prospects were obtained, has been discovered. The assay made by the We.stport School of Mines fcems to warrant the introduction of capital to develop the lode.

AIAII. NOTICESSubject to necessary hlterations. mail 6 will close at '.-the ■Chief Post Offlco us under:— •>,:: WEDNIiSDAy, MAECH 11. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, itangitiltdt," and Taranald districts, per Manawatu" train (Thorndon Station), b.3Q a.m. '!"■ Wanganui, alw Manawatu aud ltangitikci districts, .ix>r Jlanawatu4raiu (Thorndon Station), 3 p.m., ~'.,: ■ '; Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), 6.30 n.m. and 2.30 p.m. Napier and Hawltc's Bay district, per Manawatu traiii iThorudou Station), 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. " ' ■' . '■■ "'■'■•'■■ "•'■ ' Auckland and.-.tdicttict, .also Kc\v..-.PIy: mouth and Wanganuii-percMx-iin,-.Trunk train (Thorndoni'Station), ILIS a.m.., Blenheim, per Blenheim, 7/5 p.m. Nelson and Coast, per Kennedy, 4.20 p.m. Pictou, Blenheim, llavclock. nnd Neljon, also the bays, to connect with s.s. Elsie at H.ivclock, por Patccna, 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Westport,. Bccfton. Greymouth. Hokitika. per jtapourika. 3.20 n-m. K.iikoura, pdr'AVakatu, 3.20 p.m. Parcel mail r ?6r-United . Kingdom ajid Continent ol Europe, ner Corinthic, 5 n.tn. Southern offices of New. , Zealand,, -aUo fireymouth, Holiitika, - and rltecftoui . per Maori, 6 cm. ~:, -.', ; ' : .... .. -~ TnUK,SDAV/i;lIA-RGHi.'BJ'.•' '. ■'"■■ United Kingdom a=d Cc-tinenl o! Euronc via Monte VitlecV, Kio dti'Jan'piro, and TcncrilTe (due' , 'Lorjau'h";'Mai"'s)V'*lWr spcciallV adaroEsed correspondence only), por Corinthic, 10 a.m. ' ' ' ' Napier, Gisbomc, and Auckland, nlso Australian States, duo Sydney llarch 31, per Monowai, 4.20 p.m. ' Nelson, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices, of . Sew. Zealand, aleo Australian States, duo Melbourne April. 1, tranships to Jlb'kola. at Dunedin, per Manuka, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Jlararoa, 6 p.m. FttIDAY. MAECH 24. Ceylon. India, China. Straits Settlement?. South Africa, and Continent of Eurono and Unitud Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London April 28), per Mocraki. 3 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney March 28). per J'ooraUi, -3.30 ».m. ■ (Jloucy orders must be obtained Uvo hours before the advertised time of - cloMsc tho mails.) Picton, Blenhiiim, French Pass, nnd Nelson, per Patecna, 11.50 a.m. Mails for Chatlmm Islands, per Storm, close at Lyttelton to-day at 1.30 p.m. Mails for Maiden Island, per barque Plciono, close at Timaru, Thursday, March 23. at noon. The next best dispatch for Continent of Ftironc! and TJnitdd Kincdom w<l! b<? via Brindisi, closinu at 'WcHincton, per Mocraki, Friday, .March 24. at 3 p.m. The nest best dispatch for Canada, T.'-iited State' of Aiicrion.. Wc:l Indies, will bo via. Earotong.n, Tahiti, and San Francisco, closine at Wcliir.itton, per Main Trunk train. Friday. Anril 7. at 10.30 a.m. All books and sample packets and newspapers for places within tho Dominion must be peeled half an hour before the ordinary letter-mail closes. • Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parrels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained one hour before the ordinary mail closes. All the principal mails by tram and steamer clofe at Te Aro and Courten,ay Place Post Offices at the same lwurn as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that there is no lato-fco clearance. I). MILLER, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, March 22, 1911.