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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 431, 17 December 1868, Page 2

The Treasurer of the Westport Hospital acknowledges the receipt of £2 from Win. Adams, Caledonian Terrace, for maintenance as a patient when an inmate of the hospital. Yesterday there were shipped to Hokitika, by the John Penn, 53720zs lldwts 14grs of gold, the produce of this district. Of this quantity 35280«s lodwts 20grs were shipped by the Bank of New South "Wales, and 18440zs Odwts 18grs by the Bank of New Zealand. This makes the exports within a week upwards of 63720z5, the Union Bank having shipped lOOOozs to Nelson by the Kennedy on Friday last. The gaol at Weitport -is gazetted as a public gaol of the colony. Medical practitioners in tliis province are requested by Dr Irvine to register their names and qualifications immediately, otherwise they "will not appear in the official register.

'Peter James M'Kenna is authorised, under the provisions of section 13 of the Gold fields Act, 1866, to construct a track from the plains at the north end of Giles Terrace, through the bush, across Deadman's Creek, and up the north bank of the creek, being a distance altogether of about a mile and a quarter, to the present working in Deadman's Creek, and to charge for a period of six months, from the Ist December, 1868, the following tolls: —For each horse, 2s 6d; for each head of homed cattle, Is 6dj for each sheep, 6d. We have received several copies of the Fijian Weekly News, published by Mr Johnson, formerly of this office. We notice that, in Ootober, the sohooner Thane of Fife had been totally wrecked at the Fijis, and that the Banshee had been stranded, but not injured.

The mail from Westport, for England via Suez, will close on Monday morning, at eight o'clock, and will be despatched via Greymouth.

A Swede, named Johnston, has been brought to the Hospital with one of his legs fractured—the result of an accident while working among some boulders in the Lyell.

The Otago Volunteers have won the InterColonial Rifle Match.

Thomas Lake, carpenter of the barque John Bunyan, has been drowned at Nelson when going on board his ship. Brice, the absconder, who was lately apprehended in Wellington, has defalcations in Melbourne amounting to over £3OOO. Mr N. Edwards has received a numerously signed requisition, asking him to stand as a candidate for the seat vacant by the resignation of Mr Stafford.

The Presbyterian General Assembly has constituted a Presbytery in Nelson, which is to meet for the first time in January next. Several parties who had gone to Collingwood, with the object of visiting the new ground on the Aorere river, have returned by the Lady Barkly, deterred by the weather and the state of the tracks.

Late telegrams state that Colonel Whitmore and nearly all the men taken from Wanganui to Napier are returning to Wanganui. The Press and people of Napier are furious at Whitmore's return there. Napier people term him the " Grave-digger." Mr Richmond returns with Colonel Wbitinore.

We notice by late Australian papers that Adjutant Stack had several interviews with Mr M'Culloch, the Premier of Victoria, in the course of which the latter consented to send 400 of the 14th Regiment to New Zealand, if the Governor and Commander-in Chief in Victoria consented. The Government has authorised Captain Stack to raise 100 men for service in the North Island. These men, as stated yesterday, have arrived by the Alhambra. It is also stated that Commodore Lambert has received letters from Australia stating that General Sir Trevor Chute may be expected daily to arrive from Australia, and that Lord Behnore is willing to send troops from Sydney.