The Westport Times. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 582, 18 November 1869, Page 2

The Westport Times. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869.

Tlie Warden, Dr Giles, purposes visiting the northern, terraces professionally to-day. The Giles Terrace lead was, we are told struck yesterday by Graham and party, who have for some time been tunnelling from Deadman's Creek. Wc understand that they have obtained excellent prospects. A telegram has been received in town stating that the winners of the two Melbourne Eaces upon which sweepstakes had been got up in YYestport were—The Queen's Plate: Charon, Ist; "Warrior, 2nd. The Free Handicap: Albion, Ist-j Poison, 2nd; Norma, 3rd. The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times stales that :• —"An alarm of fire was given at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, the other night, and the people made a rush fur the doors and the ' escapes.' One of the latter opened out into the Waxwork exhibition, which had closed and was in darkness. An excited crowd amongst the lay figures made a heavy list of casualties. The Siamese Twins were dissevered without surgical aid—the monster Jones (not the political one) met retributive justice in having his neck knocked off; and in fact, there was general chaos done in wax next morning. It is a moot question whom the wax show man can go against— Whether the people who actually broke his images; the proprietors of the theatre whence they came ; or the Chinese, who it is said, by letting off crackers, caused the alarm ?" Mr Gibbs, in thanking the Electors of the Province for the support given him at the election for the Superintendeney, says:— **ln thanking my friends on the West Coast, I would remind them, that although greatly in the minority as compared with the successful candidate, the result has established the trutiifulness of my supporters in saying that I had a larger support in the districts around Nelson than the other unsuccessful candidates; and to my fellow-settlers of the Province generally, I would address myself in all sincerity' by saying that till there is a determination on their parts to be guided by their own conviction only, arrived at after mature consideration, or till tlie system of voting by ballot becomes law, it is quite useless for any man of moderate means, whatever his worth may be, attempting to contest an election where a prominent ingredient of success is a lavish expenditure of money."