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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 506, 20 May 1869, Page 2

We direct attention to the announcements of the Race Meeting and Regatta, to be held at Westport on Monday and Tuesday next. The Rev. Mr Flavell, the new incumbent of Charleston, arrived in Westport yesterday by the steamer Kennedy. A man named John Foster died in the Westport Hospital yesterday. He had lately, more as an act of charity than otherwise, been imprisoned as a vagrant, but he was in such a deplorable state of atrophy that he had to be removed to the hospital. —On Tuesday, a miner named Francis Hennessy was received into the Hospital, having one of his hands severely crushed by a fall of earth and timber at Giles Terrace. —The list of patients includes also an insane person, whom it will be necessary to send to Nelson. In the Warden's Court, yesterday, the case of Barker and party v. Wilson and party was reheard before the Warden and Assessors; Mr Pitt appearing for the former party and Mr Tyler for the latter. A verdict was given for the defendants, the assessors considering, from the fresh evidence, that the party were working six men's ground distinct from their amalgamated claim, though through one tunnel. On the previous day, Marshall and party sued Tupper and party for .£260, for damages by encroachment, and the assessors gave a verdict for .£l9 12s. Dr Dakers has resigned his duties as surgeon to the Charleston Hospital, and the services of another are required. Mr W. I. Bridges, a gentleman wellknown in Invercargill, has shot himself at Riverton, Southland. Some unsatisfactory business transactions so increased his natural irritability as to drive Mm to the rash act. Mr George Richardson, of the Golden Fleece Hotel, Welson, died in his sleep on Wednesday, while under the influence of an opiate. He had been suffering from delirium tremens. An inquest was held. An inquest has also been held on the bodies of two children, twins, who recently died in Nelson after partaking a composing medicineIt was not concluded on Monday.