The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 353, 17 September 1868, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868.

At the Resident Magistrates Court there was only one case, that of an inebriate, who paid the usual penalty of excess.

The shipping telegrams were posted yesterday in the Telegraph office, and their publication gave great satisfaction to all classes. The iniormation afforded was not however of an important character. The Ahuriri arrived at Napier from Wellington, and H.M. Brisk, at Wellington, from Sydney, on the 15th.

The Melbourne Argus of the 15th August, contains the following extraordinary announcement in its list of insolvents : " James Anderson, of Brighton, late a squatter, now out of business. Causes of insolvency : From having made an assignment in Decern ber, 1866, of all his real and personal estate in trust for the benefit of all his creditors, but which deed he had been unable to get signed ; also, from depreciation in the value of squatting property, and heavy losses through a drought, further—from long continued illness. Liabilities, £200,061 ss. s|d.; assets, £8 ; deficiency £2OO, 053 ss. srld. Mr Courtney, official assignee. A cleaner sweep-out than this it would be almost impossible to conceive, and he must have been a good financier who, in the face of his long continued illness, could have carried on business with only £8 to meet a debt of over £200,000." The Nelson Examiner nf 12th inst. says : It appears more than probable that Ministers will be defeated on Mr. Fox's resolutions. Our telegram of last mgnt states tnat au tne iNeisou members are in opposition, and that Mr. M'Lean and Mr Ormond, of Hawke's Bay, had also gone over to Mr. Fox, with probably one or two of the Maori members. On the last great division Ministers had only a majority of nine, and the defections above stated are sufficient to convert that majority into a minority. The votes of Mr. Curtis and Mr. Wells, Mr. M'Lean and Mr. Ormond, and Taheri, taken from Ministers will give the Opposition a majority of one, The Nelson Examiner says :—Our telegram of last evening, annoucing the defection of the Hawke's Bay members from the Government supporters, because Mr. Stafford has resolved to withdraw the Armed Constabulary from Hawke's Bay, is only another irlustration of the difficulties which beset the Government. The depression of our affairs makes us hard taskmasters, and we require our servants to make bricks without straw. We deny the Government the means for effectually maintaining the peace of the country, and then find fault with them for not doing what we ourselves have rendered impossible.