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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 725, 18 October 1870, Page 2

TJp to the hour of going to press there was no news of the arrival of the City of Melbourne at Anckland with the Eurorjean Mail via San Francisco. That steamer is now five days over due. ■ The news from the Inangahua Junction continues of a highly satisfactory character. At the Murray Eeef there is every indication of valuable workings being opened up, -while at the newly discovered reef at Anderson's Creek the stone is turning out of extraordinary richness. Mr Williams who arrived in town on Saturday has favored us with some pieces of the stone all of which are thoroughly and thickly impregnated with fine gold. A small quan Lity of the stone is to be tested at one of the banks to-day. Anderson's Creek, we are informed, is distant two miles from Murray Creek, between it and the Inangahua Junction.

The friends of Mr E. H. Bullen will regret to loam of his sudden death at the Ahaura on Saturday night last. The deceased had but recently left Westport for that district, after partially recovering from a dangerous illness arising from inflammation of the lungs, when he suffered a relapse, and expired shortly after entering upon his new field of duties. His remains have been removed to Greymouth, and will be interred to-day, tho Masonic brethren, of "which fraternity the deceased was a member, following the bier to its final resting place. Tho Council of the institution of Civil Engineers have awarded a Telford meda 1 , and a Telford premium, in books, to Edward Dobson, Assoc. Inst. C.E., for his paper on " The Public Works of the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand."

Wo draw attention to the auction sale of produce, ex Florence, from Lyttelton, which takes placo this day at Stanley wharf, at 2 o'clock.

It is notified in another column that tenders for the construction of ahorse track between the Lyell township and the roofs, will bo received at the District Engineer's Office until Saturday tho 29th inst.

Mx- Jno. Munro requests us to state that the schooner Florence will not be despatched from this port to the Fijis, as advertised, owing to there being no applications for berths, no one appearing desirous of visiting those beautiful and fertile islands from this part of the Coast. The owners intend despatching the schooner from the Pelorus to the Fijis, with a cargo of timber. In consequence of tho delay in shipping the necessary timber from Hokitika tho tramway line will not bo completed for some days after the appointed time. The Receiving Shed near the Bright-streetwharf would have been finished on Saturday but its progress has been also stayed, awaiting the arrival of timber from the'south. A rather serious accident occurred on Sunday last at Charleston, whereby a boy of about fifteen fractured his leg. It appears that a butcher named Scanlou and some of his men were endeavoring to yard a refractory beast, and the boy, who was looking on, in order to evade the animal, jumped down the bank of tho creek on the fiat between the stockyards and the Darkio's Lead, the force of the fall breaking the limb. The sufferer was conveyed to tho Hospital, when it was found that the fracture was a simple one. The beast, after considerable trouble, was shot.

The butchers in Wanganui have raised the price of moat, 20 per cent. This is owing to a scarcity of stock, brought about by excessive exportation. At a meetiug of the Nelson Scientific Association, a letter was read from a person who had been cured of rheumatism by bathing in tho hot surings at Hurunni Plain.

Mr and Mrs Darroll—-the latter bettor known as Mrs Eoberfc Heir, were to give their first entertainment in Greymouth this evening.

A party of seven miners have opened a claim upon the banks of tho river at Havelock, in a lino with Busst and Devonshire's claim, and have obtained a prospect that has induced thorn to continue operations. Tho JSclto mentions Mr George Brodic as a probable candidate for the superiritendency of Otago. Mr James Smith and Mr James Macassey, solicitors, are also spoken of as likely to contort the Danedia election for the General Assembly. David Souter, charged with murdering his paramour, one Mary Ann Hamill at Hokitika, has been committed to take his trial at the nest sittings of the Supreme (Joint. A tailor, named John Dawkins, committed suicide by strangling himself in a cell at the lock-up. Dawkins was a very heavy drinker and having at some period cohabited with the woman Hamill, her untimely end would appear to have powerfully affected him.

The escort from the Otago goldfields for the month of September brought down 10,074 ozs 13 dwts of gold. Throe districts contributed upwards of two thousand ounces each—Mount Ida, 2,325 ozs; Lawrence, 2,323 ozs ; Cromwell, 2031 ozs, and other three between one and two thousand ounces. Quoonstovra, 1,5950z5; Black's, 1158 ozs; ManuUei'ikia, 1112 oza.

It is reported that medical men are much required afc Queonstown and Alexandra; there being good openings at both places. A Christchurch telegram states that an action, as between the Manager of the Press Teloa-i-aph Association and the Government, in respect to the alleged malpractice in connection with the Suez mail telegrams, will be brought before tho Supreme Court. An agent has beon despatched to tho Bluff and Melbourne to collect evidence.

The re-union of the two provinces of Otago and Southland excited but little attention in Dunedin. The royal standard floated over the Government buildings during tho day in honor of the event. In Southland the Provincial Government kept holiday.

The body of Eeid, formerly master of the schooner Brothers, has been discovered by two fishermen in tho Horseshoe Bend, near the Mokonioko. Although two months immersed the body was readily identified. During the recent, dry weather tho Grey river was so low as to bo easily fordable at any point above the coal pits. The French residents of New South Wales have initiated a soldiers' relief fund. Several cases of sticking up of teamsters' arc reported to have occurred lately in the north of South Australia.

Mr Henry Shaftes Harrison, long the representative of Wanganui, has taken leave of his constituents and public life. The LytteUou Times is informed that a gentleman largely interested in the working of tho Malvern Hills Coalfield, has sent to England for one of Thompson's road steamers, with which to bring the coal to Christchurch.

AMr J. Lange, a resident of Hokitika, and a native of Sweden, has presented a liberal donation of £6 to the German Patriotic Fund.

It has been the custom hitherto to take the census of the colony every third year, the last having been taken in ISG7. A short Act was passed during the recent session of the Assembly, in which power is given to the Governor, if so advised, to appoint that the next general census shall bo taken in 1871 instead of 1370. In addition to the information which tbc enumerators have hitherto been required to obtain, the new Act provides that they shall ascertain, in each case, the quantity of wheat, oats, and bailey, remaining on hand -when the form is filled up. The new Act also provides that if any person objects to state whether he belongs to any or what religious denomination, the word " objects" may be written in the form opposite the name. The Sydney Herald of the 24th Sept. publishes a special telegram, stating that the Austrian neutrality circular leads to the belief that she will join Prussia. The coal merchants in Greymouth have provided against insufficient supplies in the future, having laid in larger stocks than have been on hand for many months past. The Waka Maori, a newspaper for circulation amongst the Maoris, is again about to bo published. Mining matters at Alexandra, the Dunstan Times reports, remain without change; the following are the only items to notice: — The dredges are in full work, tho one belonging to Beattio and party lias removed further up the river, somewhere near where the Alexandra got so much gold some three years since. , The Manuharikia Company have got their tramway started, and it works satisfactorily. The "wholo of tho sluicing claims arc in lull work, some of them with great success. Two miners at Moke Creek are reported

to be getting lib of gold each per week from their claim. This, at the current price of £3 15s per ounce, is equivalent to J245 each per week. Not bad tucker.

The mean annual temperature of the Fiji Islands is sot down by a writer in the Auckland Herald, who has recently visited the Group, at a little over 80 degrees, being 1 30 degrees higher than the mean annual temperature of Dunodin.