ADDISON'S FLAT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 397, 7 November 1868, Page 7

ADDISON'S FLAT.

PUBLIC MEETING. (FROM A COKItESPO^DE^T.) Nov. 1, IS6B. The Committee of the Addison's Plat Prospecting Association called a public meeting on Saturday evening last (which was numerously attended), at the Club Hotel. Dr Donovan, on being called to the chair, said that since they had last met, two gentlemen of the Committee, viz., Mr Walter Williams and Mr Hayes, had canvassed the Duller township for subscriptions for the above institution, and the result of their labours had been so favourable that the Committee had considered it mere courtesy due to those people who had subscribed to call a meeting for the purpose of acquainting the inhabitants of the Addison Plat district how well they have been received, and how liberally the people of Westport had contributed towards the Association. The Chairman said he would call upon Mr Michael Ryau, the Secretarj', to read the list of subscribers.

Mr Ryan accordingly read the list of subscriptions collected at Westport, the total amount being £53 8s 6d.

Mr Walter Williams in addressing the meeting, said that in addition to the amount already obtained by subscriptions and the proceeds of the ball, he had on that day made out a list for weekly subscribers, and he was exceedingly gratified to find that all the bnsiness people had promised to pay the sum of three shillings per week, the total of which would amount to nearly £4 10s weekly towards the funds of the institution, and he hoped that before the said funds were exhausted, that a good payable field would be opened. In conclusion he begged to propose a vote of thanks to the people of Westport for the very liberal and spirited manner in which they had acknowledged the call made upon them. This was responded to vociferously. There being nothing further of importance to bring before the meeting, the Chairman thanked the company for their attendance, and hoped that the next meeting would be to inform them that their energies had been rewarded with success. The meeting then termiuat ed

AVe have been requested by the Hospital Steward to thank Mrs Daniel for a small parcel of old linen loft at the hospital on the 31st ultimo. Further coutribufciona of the same nature are much needed, and will be thankfully received.

j When (lie House was in Committee on the want of confidence motion, a question arose us to whether members were allowed to read their speeches. Mr (Jarlctcu (tho chairman) said it I was allowable for hou. members to refer to " notes," when addressing tho House ; of course these notes might |be very copious.—(Laughter). Mr Haughtori: ''But I have seen hon. members go up to tho table and read their speech right off, finishing up with a flourish of the manuscript, tied together with a piece of red tape belonging to the Government, and then send it to the Opposition journal, the Independent."—(Laughter).

A correspondent of the Nelson Uoeniuff Mail gives the followingdescription of tho mode in which the Hau-haus get their information : The way they obtain information of all that is going on in an enemy's camp is simply by rigging up one or more spies in the form of the tr-tree, which grows abundantly amongst the fern and tortpi; these in the night take their stations sufficiently near the enemy to be able to observe all that is passing in and about the camp, whilst other scouts are wriggling underneath the fern and scrub just like so many rats, always careful not to disturb the tops of the fern and scrub, in order to get information from the ti-tree spy or spies, and continually carrying back to their warriors news of all that is going on. If an immediate attack is iru tended, their own party are at once i lformed of it; if a night or early morn attack, the same ; or if an attack is not to be made, their people are advised of it.

In the Provincial Government " Gazette" of the 28th ult., received yesterday by the Kennedy, we observe several uotices to the effect that certain meetings of creditors, of various bankrupts, whose names ave given, " will be held iathe Court House, Westport, on Friday, the 30th day of October, instant." The fact of this intimation only reaching Westport some three or four days after the date appointed for the meetings would seem to argue the utter uselessness of such an announcement being thus made, but any one who reflects on the matter, will perceive that this plan of doing things is not without its advantages. It keeps in ignorance the very persons who are interested in the business, and saves the bankrupt the bother of answering what possibly may be awkward questions, and so fits in admirably with 'the general scheme of bankruptcy proceedings, the spirit of which appeal's to be to encourage fraud as much as possible by burying a bankrupt's doings in an out-of-the-way " Gazette," and so practically withholding all knowledge for the not over curious, though too confiding creditors.

Immigrant G-irls in Canada. — The Times, of the 4th of July, has the following : —" A letter we publish elsewhere seems to open a bright prospect for one of the most needy, and perhaps least cared for classes among us. Miss Rye writes to us from Canada, to say that within a few hours of her landing on Canadian soil she has found places for all the girls whom she Has taken from England. She left England with a hundred servant girls, and within a fortnight she found herself alone, and free to return to England to repeat the same experiment. Had she taken out three hundred more girls she believes they could all have been equally well placed, and her belief is more than confirmed by the accounts in the Canadian papers. According to the description in a Toronto journal, instead of Miss Eye having to make any effort to dispose of her importation, her only difficulty was to avoid having them taken from her by storm. She had no sooner arrived at the Toronto station than a large crowd of citizens gathered outside, and would hardly wait while the girls were at dinner for the distribution of such helps. _ They employed the time in surveying the immigrants, and the result of their inspection did not cheek their eagerness. "When dinner was fiuished the applicants were so numerous that they could only be admi /ted in the order in which their names had been entered on a list, and when 210 had thus been allowed to compete for the services of sixty girls, 150 more of the citizens were still waiting impatiently for the mere chance Of one of the girls falling to them. The market, in fact, was entirely in the hands of the girls; and they were able to be so particular in their choice as to reject the service of ladies with red hair. They asked five dollars a month, and in one instance received as much as six. Miss Eye was strict in each case that there should bo no misunderstanding of the agreement, and required a specification both of tho work and of the wages. In short she could almost mako her own terms.'