WESTPORT NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 871, 9 November 1888, Page 23

WESTPORT NEWS.

[Be Telegraph.]

(FROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.) Westport, October 31.

At the inquest held at Charleston on an old man named John McLaughlan, the jury added a rider to the effect that the amount allowed by the Charitable Aid Board for the support of destitute persons was insufficient. Mr Wheeler, the Wellington manager of the Union Company, is on a viat to West. P °The steamers'Ohau and Brunner, bound for Greymoutb, put in here through stress of weather. „ Westport, November 2, The weather having moderated, the steamers that were driven in here by the impassable state of the Grey bar got away this morniag, and others follow this evening. The Customs duties last month were close upon £IOOO, _ Westpoet, November 5. Last week’s coal export was 3172 tonß I?cwt. „ lathe Warden’s Court, a case of considerable local interest has been decided on an appeal to the District Court in favour of John Hughes, the respondent. Agitation is a-foot with the object of having an assistant appointed in the office of olerk of the Court. The retrenchment policy reduced the staff-to one man. The new Catholic church, a fine building, was opened yesterday. . An adult skeleton was found while digging a shaft at Mokihinui. It is supposed to be the remains of a Maori buried in the early time. Pieces of greenstone were found with thebones. Matthews, the boxer, gives an e^hibA*'! o .'?. here this week. !*' Westport, November Q. Mr A. Hall has again obtained the West* pofi-Noiapb-Greymouth mail con*-—' <goqqb s«rYWOj for Westport, November 7. ’The result of the first orußhing at the Nile claim is 460 z of retorted gold from 100 tons of stone. The battery was crushing twenty, three days. , _ , , ~ , A son of the late Joseph Sykes, who died in the Hospital, has asked the Board for an inquiry into the treatment of his father while in that institntion.