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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 641, 5 April 1870, Page 2

A crickyt match, between the Westport aid Charleston teams, i 3 to take place at Westport on Easter Monday. The new premises in course of erection for Mr Horn, tobacconist, on tho site of the promises that were recently bnmfc down, will be completed in the course of the ensuing week. The shop jjronrises to be a handsome one, and when occupied wll tend to relieve the desolate appearance still presented by this portion of Gladstone-street. A parcel of gold amounting to upwards of IOOOoz., forwarded by tho Bank of New South Wales, Charleston, arrived in Westport on Thursday last. The rush in tho vicinity of Brown's Terrace, Charleston, has, we regret to learn, altogether fallen short of the expectations that iu the earlier stage wore entertained respecting it. The locality is at present all but deserted, and tho beat prospects obtained would barely give small wnges.

It is stated iu an article appearing in tho Melbourne Leader that it is shortly contemplated to coin all the gold required for the British Empire at the Melbourne mint, the English mint being confined to the coining of silver. The sovereign will in future have nothing to distinguish it from the English coin. The annual conversion in Victoria of the raw material into many millions of sovereigns will doubtless tend to raise the price of gold in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand.