The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1868.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 351, 15 September 1868, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1868.

It .s by no means an improbability tbat Mr Stafford may suffer a defeat on the resolutions brought forward by Mr Fox, and if so he will appeal to the country on the policy he has ennunciated in reference to dealing with Provincialism. We may expect something decisive to-day or to-morrow on the subject. The Nelson Evening Mail has got into an evident fog as to journalistic changes on the West Coast. In its issue of Thursday last, it is gravely stated that the Westport Times and Hokttika Observer have lately amalgamated, the latter journal having purchased the premises and goodwill of the former. For the enlightenment of our contemporary, and the information of any who may have been misled by the mistake, we may state that such an amalgamation is hardly likely to take place between papers published in districts seventy miles distant from each other. It was the West Coast Times and Observer that coalesced in the manner our contemporary describes. A Mr Cox has brought an action against Mr Barnett for having supplied him with adefective machine for making champagne, and recovered the sum of L 35, in addition to L 75 paid into Court. It appeared during the trial that, by the aid of the machine in quootloo, an oflrorvrAsrifint COmpOUlld of port, sherry, Madeira, Hungarian wine, and sugar can be made " equal to champagne of the highest brand" — with this slight difference, that it has a cloudy or milky appearance, and that it blisters the lips and throats of the utfortunate individuals who swallow it, A machine of this kind, capable of producing 100 dozen of Sillery champagne a-day, costs L 135, and the champagne can be turned out at the price of ginger beer. Argus.