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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 529, 13 July 1869, Page 2

An adjourned meeting of subscribers to the Westport Hospital was held in the Court-house on Saturday afternoon. The attendance was not so numerous as on the evening on which the first meeting was held. Dr. Giles was in the chair. The Hon. Secretary, Mr J. Munro, read the Committee's annual report, which we publish in other columns, and, on the motion of Mr Bullen, seconded by Mr Frasor, the report was unanimously adopted. Mr F'raser also moved a vote of thanks to the Committee for the past year, and, having been seconded by Mr Sheahan, the motion was carried by acclamation. The only other business before the meeting was the election of a Committee for the current year. Mr Tyler, in order to test the feeling of the meeting, moved " That nominations be received at once, and that, after the nominations are closed, the meeting proceed forthwith to elect a Committee by a show of hands." This was agreed to, and the following gentlemen, thirteen in number, were nominated and elected:—Messrs F. Harris, J. Munro, R, C. Eeid, E. K. Tyler, T. Sheahan, B. Alcorn, J. W. Humphrey, J. Powell, Thomas Bailie, Eobert Whyte, Thomas Field, W. J. Patterson, and James Simpson. Mr Munson had also boon nominated, but the others had the highest number of votes. By the rules of the institution, the Committee meet on the first and and third Wednesday of every month. It was, however, agreed that the new Committee should meet on the evening of of Wednesday next. The Medical Officer's report for the past year will be published in our next number.

In accordance with the memorial lately presented to the Warden by miners on Roehfort Terrace, the survey stair are now engaged in ascertaining the level and dip of the lead of gold on that terrace. It is expected that this work will be of great assistance to the miners, though, of course, the survey can only be approximate and suggestive of the true position of the lead. We understand that the gold struck by the party who have put in the long tunnel from the seaward, at the middle of Giles Terrace, is 17 feet lower than that at the Orawaiti end of the tunnel. This dip occurs in a distance of 23 chains. A number of tenders were received for the work of forming a road to Deadman's Creek. The tenders accepted are those of Mr J. W. G. Beauchamp, at .£5 Is per chain, and of Mr Thomas Law, of Spring and party, at .£8 10s per chain, both ineluding felling timber, draining, &c.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Westport Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Empire Hotel last evening, when Mr Bailie was instructed to write to Melbourne, Dunedin, and Invereargill, to inquire as to the cost of a fire engine, complete. We believe that, in consequence of the water being laid on in the streets of Dunedin, the Corporation are able to dispense with one engine of a very suitable character, and a negotiation for its purchase may be effected. At the meeting it was also agreed that Mr Hughes should wait upon Mr Eeid, M.P.C., for the purpose of inquiring as to the term 3, if any, upon which the subsidy of £IOO had been passed by the Provincial CounciL The Committee were able to report favourably of the canvass for subscriptions. They have already promises of £l5O, and have hopes of this amount being supplemented. It is satisfactory to know that the hioh opinion which we ventured to express with regard to Mr Vogel's abilities as a politician and financier is not a singular one. The Wellington correspondent of the

Lyttelton Times, who, if we are not mistaken, is also a member of the House, thus refers to a motion by Mr Vogel on the subject of Life Assurance:—" He made a very excellent speech of an hour, brimful of matter for consideration. "Without doubt, Mr Vogel has exhibited himself, session after session, as the most able financier in the House. There are several very good accountants in it, but few financiers." The same correspondent, referring to Mr Creighton's motion on the alleged Fenian organization at the Thames, says :—" Mr Stafford poured oil on the excited feelings of Mr Gallagher and one or two other Irish members, by expressing his sympathy with the wrongs of Ireland (though not with the mode proposed by Fenians for redressing them), and the intention of the Government not to take any action on the reports that had been laid before the Government." In the Supreme Court, Nelson, on Thursday last, Elisabeth Wilson, hotelkeeper, Charleston, was indicted for having been guilty of perjury at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Charleston, on the 6th March last. Mr H. Adams appeared for the prosecution, Dr Combe for the prisoner. The witnesses for the prosecution were Charles Broad, Charles Hugh Webb Bowen, Philip Eedman Allen, and Archibald Stewart. For the defence Dr Combe called George Arthur Strike, Thomas Dwan, John Webster, Patrick Hehir, and Mary Healy. The alleged false evidence of the prisoner related to an account which she had sworn she had paid to Mr Allen. The jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. The witnesses connected with the case returned to Westport by the steamer Murray, and left for Charleston on the same day by coach. The following is the classi Seat ion of the patients who have been accommodated in the Westport District Hospital during the past year:—-74 miners, 2 cooks, 3 paperhangers and painters, 2 bakers, 3 seamen, 2 laborers, 1 butcher, 3 storekeepers, 2 carpenters, 2 stock-drivers, 1 jockey, 1 prisoner, 1 sailmaker, 1 ginger-beer manufacturer. Total, 93. A man named John Warden or John Gallagher has attempted the murder of a storekeeper named Craig, and his wife, residing at the Marewhenua diggings, near

Oaniaru, Otago. For the sake of the gold they had, he attempted to 1 ill them in bed with a tomahawk, but they survive, and ho has been committed for trial. A velocipede on the bicycle principle has been manufactured in Greymouth. A house and furniture belonging to Mr Hughes, Christclmrch, has been destroyed by fire. The family had difficulty in escaping. In the case of John Hall, theatrical manager, against Mrs Eobert Hon-, actress, for breach of agreement, damages to the amount of .£l5O have been given by an Auckland jury. Thomas Laurence Ward, charged at the Nelson Suprei e Court with stealing £6O from the Blenheim Telegraph Office, has been acquitted. Mr Henry Howorth has been elected M.H.R. for the Taieri district, Otago. Mr Nathaniel Levin, Wellington, has been made a member of the Legislative Council.