The Westport Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1870

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 669, 9 June 1870, Page 2

The Westport Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1870

It is notified elsewhere that the Spanish Resturant, together with stqefc, furniture, &c, will be sold by auction' on Friday, by Air Munro. The property"'will be ottered without reserve. On Saturday two cottages and Section in Bright-street will be disposed of on the ground, and a number of goats at the mart. The usual monthly meeting of the West port District Hospital was held at the Court-house on Tuesday last—present, Dr Giles, (Chairman,) Messrs Harris, Eeid, Munro, Whyte, Pitt, Simpson. Bailie, and Munson. The previous minutes having been read and confirmed, the Treasurer brought forward a statement showing the financial position of the Committee. The overdraft at the Bank amounted to £2B 2s Bd, and with the Government they were overdrawn to the extent of £B3 7s; a portion of the May accounts, amounting to £29 3s were also unpaid. The above amounts togpther with £9O, the estimated expenditure for the current month showed a deficiency of £230 12s Bd. The question was asked whether the Sub-committee, who had been appointed to wait upon Mr Kynnersley with respect to the grant o. £250, had anything further to repo;t. It was then stated that no rej ly had b?en yet received from Nelson, but it was und ;rstood that the Committee were to draw upon the Government to meet contingencies. The following gentlemen wore then appointed to canvass the various district i to collect the annual subscriptions:—Messrs Powell,and B lilie Addison's Flat ; Messrs Whyte, Barry, Braithwaite, and M'Fai-lane, Caledonia and German Terraces; Messrs Munson, Oxley, and Beaton, Giles, Hatter, and Northern Terraces ; Messrs Sloan, Zala, and Menderrnann, Lyell; Messrs Harris and I'itt, the township of Westport. The Secretary was instructed to write to the g nlleuien, not members of the Committee, who had been appointed to canvass, notifying their appointment and requesting their co-operation. It was also considered desirable to communicate with the Warden's Clerk at, Matakitaki and request, him to bring the claims of the institution as prominently forward as possible. A communication from the Kev. Mr Lewis, complaining of the indecent haste with which the remains of a patient, recently deceased, had been interred, was referred to the Visiting Committee to inquire and report. The appointment of James Collins, as cook by the Visiting Committee, was confirmed. Messrs Reid, Pitt, and Munro were appointed a , Visiting Committee for the present month. A Sub-committee to consist of Messrs Giles, • Reid, and Munro, were appointed to draw up the annual report. The Charleston and Brighton monthly

escort arrived, in Westport yesterday, per Cobb and Co's coach. The three local banks_forwarded parcels, amounting in the In the Resident Magistrate's Court, on Tuesday last, the following civil cases were disposed of: Dewdney v. Robinson—claim for M 7s 6d, judgment for plaintiff by default; Gallagher v. O'Connell—defendant to show cause why he had not paid £5 4s, the amount of judgment previously obtained. Defendant was ordered to pay £3 forthwith, and the balance in a week, or in default six weeks' imprisonment; Sloan v. Charnley—claim for £7 10s, judgment for defendant with costs. The following applications were heard in the Warden's Court, Westport, on Tuesday and Wednesday last: John Hughes, to construct a race, 500 yards long, to convey eight heads of water from a creek, five miles up. the Waimangaroa river, registration granted, subject to the prior rights of Overhagen and party; Wright and party, to take up an abandoned tunnel, south of Caledonian Terrace, registration granted; Antonio Zala, .for the Alpine Quartz Company, to construct a tunnel, 300 feet long, 450 feet east of Irishman's Creek, Lyell, registration granted; Laurizen and others, to construct a tunnel, GOO feet long, on claim at Caledonian Terrace, registration granted, subject to question of right to ground now pending in the Warden's Court; Wright and others, to construct a dam 60 feet by 60 feet, at Ballarat Terrace, registration granted. A meeting of the Athenaeum Committee was held at the Court-house on Tuesday afternoon. Present—Messis Giles, Pitt, Denniston, WTiyte, and Reid. An annual return of the receipts and expenditure of the institution was audited and forwarded to the Provincial Secretary, who had been asked by the Provincial Council to furni&b such return. A list of books, as drawn up by the Sub-committee appointed for the purpose, was approved of, and a motion carried to the effect that the books and periodicals should be procured through Mr Munson, bookseller. A fireplace has recently been erected in the Athenasuin building, and other comforts provided for the subscribers, who may attend on Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday evenings from the hours of seven to ten o'clock. The return presented by the Secretary showed a balance of over ,£7O to the credit of the institution.

Late Auckland news says that 27 South Sea Islanders had been imported by the schooner Sulu to work a flax mill. They said they came voluntarily, but it is suspected they were sold by their chiefs. The Auckland press condemns the introduction, as similar to the Queensland importation scheme. The Hokitika Star states that .£SOOO have been collected in Melbourne for the widow of Walshe, who was murdered by Supple. The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to arrive in New Zealand in October. The Bank of New South Wales have erected new premises at Ross. Dr Can*, the mesmerist, made his first appearance in Dunedin at tho Masonic Hall, on the 23rd ult. The Greymouth Star of Friday gives thfi following : —*' Our contemporaries have been in error, it appears, in stating that Judge Ward had been appointed to the District Judgeship of Hokitika, as a telegram has reached Hokitika from the Hon. James Prcndergast, tbo Attorney-General stating that there was no foundation for the statement." The following letter from Mr Franklyn appeared in the Qrey Argus of Saturday last, notifying his retirement from political life :—" As I know somo little interest is felt about tho result of tho election for the Grey District in the Nelson Provincial Council, I beg to acquaint yon that it is not my intention to go to the poll, hut to retire in favor of Mr Wilkie. This is not

from any fear of the result; but, candidly speaking, I am heartily sick of politics, and intend for the future to look after my own business in preference to that of any other person." Mr Franklyn, we understand, has settled down at the Ahaura as an auctioneer and commission agent, and purposes practising in the Warden's Court as miners' advocate by permission of Mr Warden Whitefoord. Tho Colonial Government steamer Luna arrived at Napier on the Ist instant with the Defence Minister. She had on board three Maori prisoners. One of them is Karama, who ha 3 been in our hands three times. He was captured first at Tauranga, ami took the oath of allegiance ; secondly, at Hungahungatoroa, and sent to the Chatham Islands. There are several witnesses on board, and it is to hoped that a conviction will be obtained. Karama is said to be one of the chief miscreants who had a hand in tho murder of Captain Biggs and his family at Poverty Bay. Mr E. Wickes of Greymouth expresses an anxiety to introduce the salmon into the Grey, and believes no river in New Zealand better adapted to the hatching of the ova. Mr Wickes lias forwarded .£5 to the Argu? as the commencement of a subscription list to be set apart for this object. Emanuel Mendelsson, charged with jonspiracy, surrendered to his bail on the Ist inst, at the Hokitika Kosident Magistrate's Court. Mr Harvey, who presecuted, called evidence in support of the charge. Mr Button, who appeared for defendant, contended that the prosecution had utterly failed to prove that the defendant had, by any act of his, conspired with his brother, Bernard Mendel Bin, to defraud his (Bernard Mendelsson's) creditors. His Worship reserved his decision until the following morning, when he said the evidence was not strong enough for a conviction, and discharged the prisoner. In an article on Mr Pox's late speech at Ohristchurch, the Timaru Herald says:— There is one point in it, outside that of the political element, which we may be permitted to refer to. The attack of Mr Fox on the Otago Daily Times is the greatest piece of impertinence which we have lately seen, and we must record a protest against an apparent attempt to coerce a public journal, and prevent it speaking out the truth, when the truth is unpalatable to a Minister of the day. The Cabinet secrets of Mr Pox leak out in Wellington —may it not be through some fault of the Cabinet itself ? —and the correspondent of the Daily Times is denounced in the vilest language for giving publicity to "secrets" which are known to numbers of people outside the Ministry. Mr Fox clearly endeavors to make the public think that the " secrets," as they are called, which have been published recently, were purloined from Ministers' private despatch box! We are tempted to ask how Mr Pox has found out this fact, and why he does not have the

individual at once arrested who stole the secrets. We can assure Mr Fox the Press of this colony is not given to employing correspondents to ." steal" Ministerial secrets, for these secrets can be picked up in all well-informed circles by the score. Mr Fox believes in the Press when it supports him, but when it honestly opposes him he makes the most wild and reckless charges against it, which have no foundation whatever.

Ciarkin v. Proctor : An action for £SO, vered, for injuries alleged to have been received by being run over by a velocipede, was tried in the K. M. Court; Hokitika, on the 2nd instant. The evidence went to show that there had been no neirligence on the part of Proctor, and judgment was entered for the defendant against James Ciarkin, the father of the plaintiff.