WESTPORT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 859, 17 August 1888, Page 12

WESTPORT.

[By Telegraph.]

(FROM Otfß OWN 'CORRESPONDENT.) Westport, August 9. A staff of men have arrived from Dune* din to erect the new beach dredger for the New Era Company,

Westport, August 11. The Beaconsfield Company are obtaining pumping machinery for their mine.

A new daily evening paper, The Reefton Guardian, is to be issued at Reefton on the 16th. W. F. Hall aud Co. are the proprie* tors, and Mr Jatne3 Wilkie is the editor.

Young Bros, have surveyed two alternative routes for the railway to connect the Ngalcawau coal leases with the Government line. Both routes provide for short inclines. Westport, August 13. Important developments are about to take place in the local coal •mining business. The Westport Uoal Company intend to pat on two shifts, both in the mine and on the incline, and for that purpose are bringing, up 90 men and a number of tubs from their Greymouth mine ; 200 new tubs are also about due from England. A more important item, however, is that negotiations are proceeding for the sale of the whole of the Company's property to a powerful syndicate of capitalists, and apparently as a consequence the Company’s shares are in great demand, and purchasable only at a considerable advance on theirformer prices. The following football team is selected to play Reefton on Saturday next :—Full-back, Buick; three-quarters, Harden, Maloney, Scanlon ; halves, F. Munro, A. Treseder; forwards, Ballard, J. Boswell, E. Boswell, Burke, Lowe, McElwee, Pain, Robertson, Slowey; umpire, Geo. Falla. The week’s export of coal was 2679 tons. Westpop.t, August 14. The estimated revenue of the .Buller County Council for the current year is £4534. A meeting of business men last night resolved that, considering the large sums drawn from this town for fire insurance and the comparative immunity frpm risk, a Mutual Fire Insurance Company be formed, aud they appointed a committee to draw up a practicable scheme. The Inangahua Times now issues a daily penny edition. With respecc to the Ngakawau coal leases, which have been purchased by a New South Wales aud Sydney syndicate, the following cable message was received this aiternoon from the Sydney brokers : - “ Arranging for extension of railway. Apply for leases for 99 years.” This looks like business. Westport, August 15.

Dr Alfred W r *gbt has been appointed Medical Officer to the Westport Hospital, vice the late Dr Thorpe (whose body, by the way, has never been found).