The Westport Times. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1869.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 542, 14 August 1869, Page 2

The Westport Times. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1869.

A new lead of gold has been struck on Hatter's Terrace, in this neighbourhood. It was discovered by Webb and party, who have boon for some time working on a branch of Headman's Creak, about 000 foot distant from the other tunnels on the terrace. They found that they were too high for the lead of gold -which is being wrought by the other parties, and began to drive, when they struck a lead fifty feet higher than the others. They have applied for protection for a tunnel and a race.

The body of a man about five feet five inches, and supposed to be between forty and fifty years of age, was found yesterday on the north beach about a mile above Beaton's store. The body has not yet been identified. A post mortem examination was held yesterday evening by Dr Thorpe, and an inquest will be held by the Coroner to-day at 11 o'clock.

We understand that Mr Munday, the officer who has been in charge at the Custom House since this port was first opened, has been appointed Collector of Customs; and wo observe by a recent Gazette that the same officer has also been made an Inspector of Distilleries. The following are the Criminal and Bankruptcy cases to be heard at the District Court here on and after Tuesday next: —Criminal—From Cobden : George Lowe and Eobert Ogden, stealing from the person; Westport: Alice M'Farlane, stealing from the person. Bankruptcy—Thomas Tracey, adjourned case—W. and 11. Pitt; Charles Gardener, adjourned case—E. K. Tyler; Mathew Major Morey—W. and H. Pitt; Emilui.s Neilson—E. K. Tyler; John Temperly—TV. and H. Pitt. By the steatner Charles Edward the Bank of New South Wales shipped 19020zs Gdwts of gold, and the Bank of New Zealand shipped 155Sozs lldwts 21grs. Another All England Eleven will probably visit Victoria, says the Argus, during tho next season. A small proprietary has been formed to carry out the scheme, and £IOOO was despatched to England by the June mail as a guarantee of tho honajides of the projectors here. It is also proposed to engage some British pedestrians. Tho Wellington Independent of Saturday, August 7th, gives the following from the Wanganui Herald: —"By the s.s. Keera, which arrived at Manukau this morning, -we hear that when that vessel left a report was in circulation that eighteeu men had been massacred in the Waikato district." The Honorable Julius Vogel is gazetted as Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Customs. A splendid parcel of heavy nuggets was brought to Givymouth a few days ago from Moonlight Creek, and sold to one of the banks. One of these nuggets, weighing 37 ounces, slightly impregnated with quartz, was exhibited round town and had a considerable effect upon the share-market, morn especially upon the shares in the Moonlight Quartzmining Company. Tho Grey mouth papers recently announced the disappearance from the neighborhood of Paroa of a man known as German Harry, lately in tho employment of Mr Mowbray, baker, Stoney Lead. His body was found cast up by the surf on the beach, near Paroa, on Sunday, and an inquest was held upon it on Monday by Mr Beveli, District Coroner. An open verdict was returned by the jury. The W. C. Times reports that Mr David Orr, storekeeper at the Greenstone, was found dead in the main street on Sunday morning. When found, the body was all covered with mud, and from tho appearance of tho ground it is evident that the deceased had, after falling, struggled, and attempted many times to rise. An inquest was held before Mr Warden Keogh, when the medical evidence proved that apoplexy was the cansc of death. On Monday night Martin Tobin, the son of Mr and Mrs Tobin, of the Kanieri, was drowned by falling down the shaft of an abandoned claim, close to an okl tramway. It is reported, says the Grey River Argus, that a prospecting claim has been granted on one of the tributaries of Moonlight Crock, about six miles from the old workings. The prospects arc stated to bo eight grains to the dish.

It is with very great regret indeed we (IF. C. Times) have to chronicle tbe accident to Sergeant Wilson, which, it is believed, will prove fatal. As far as we have been able to learn, the Sergeant, was com'ng to town in charge of the escort, and when a little this side of Stafford Town he got off his guard while lighting his pipe. His horse shied and rushed off the road, and so unexpected w&s the start that the Sergeant, who is an excellent horseman, was unseated. He fell heavily, his head striking against a stump of a tree, rendering him insensible. The bodies of a Mrs Symmons and her son, a boy about twelve years of age, were found in the Hutt River, Wellington, on Wednesday last and it is believed the woman first drowned the boy, and afterwards committed suicide. The poor woman was lately a lunatic in the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, and some time ago attempted to cut herthroat.

We observe that Mr A. S. Collins has been instrumental in obtaining the award of the House of Bepresentatives, in favor of Captain Morris Levy, for £219 Is. of land scrip, to which he was entitled ; and it is deemed probable that he will reeeivo the £ 1000 of reward offered by the Government, in connection with the unfortunate occurrence at Opotiki, when poor Volokuer was murdered. *' By the outgoing mail," says the Sydney Herald of tbe ICth nit., " Messrs Flavelle Brothers, and Roberts, of George-street, are transmitting to London a parcel of diamonds found in New South Wales —twenty stones weighing nine carats ; being, it is believed, the first shipment of any consequence of diamonds from Sydney to England. The Australasian is threatened with competition, as a sporting journal. A new paper, bearing the title of old Xmiquam Dormio, will be published in Melbourne. The editorship h*3 been entrusted to Mr W. P. Simmons, for many years connected with the Argus as sporting reporter. It is to be illustrated by sketches (of course horsey in their character), by Dr Woodside, an animal painter of some repute.