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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 727, 22 October 1870, Page 2

By the steamer Kennedy, yesterday, 1926 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs gold were shipped to southern ports. The Bank of New South Wales forwarded 1591 ozs 19dwts 14 grs to Qreymouth, and the Bank of New Zealand also exported a small parcel to Hokitika of 334 ozs 4 dwts. The total export duty on gold, collected at the Customs, Westport, yesterday, amounted to £240 15s 6d. Wo are requested to call attention to the sale by auction of the Boatman's Arms, Gladstone-street. The sale takes place at two o'clock this afternoon. His Honor the Superintendent, accompanied by the Provincial Treasurer Mr Shephard, will visit the Coast on the return trip of the steamer Kennedy. The City of Melbourne brought 55 passengers. She will leave Auckland for San Francisco on the 7th proximo, and tlio Californian mail will leave Nelson on the 4th,

Mr Inspector Shaleruss arrived in West port yesterday by the steamer Kennedy on a tour of inspection. He will proceed overland to Charleston, Brighton, Cobden, and the Upper Grey district. In the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch, Mr Hall moved resolutions for the appointment of a committee on the subject of the development of native industries, advocating the growth of flax instead of grain; and said that red tufa rock on the peninsular contained ingredients for making Portland cement.

A Mr Hawkins, of the Styx flax-mills Canterbury, has received a bronze modal from the Intercolonial Exhibition at Sydney, for maehine-dressed flax. The case of Anderson v. Burke, now being tried in the Supreme Court at Dunedin, excites a good deal of local interest. It arises out of attempts to buy ud the grain market in 1868, and involves a question of several thousand pounds. The Lyltelton Tunes comes out at a reduced price on and after November 1. The United States war steamer Resaca has sailed from Auckland for Valparaiso. A late telegram reports that Jthe Vale of AvocaCompany, Thames, have obtained 128 ozs of gold from 53 tons of quartz. "We extract the following note of Manuka from an article in the Argus of the' 28th ultimo, on "Training Scabies":—"Perhaps there is no stable around Melbourne about which so much curiosity is exhibited as what is generally known as the Caulfleld stable. Here, as in Mr Lang's establishment, there are three Cup horses, the first in general estimation being undoubtedly the New Zealand Manuka, which looks as grand a horse as ever stripped on the Flemington course. Like Panic, he is a horse that will race much larger than the generality of Victorian bred horses ; but he requires a deal of work to bring him fit to the post, and the great question is, will he stand the severe preparation that a lullblooded muscular horse like him will require to render him tit to win the Melbourne Cup ? Being near the Caulfield racecourse, this stable has had a considerable advantage over those situated in the neighborhood of Flemington, in having been able to do fast work all through the late wet weather. Consequently, Manuka has been subjected to a larger amount of work than any horse in the immediate neighborhood of Melbourne. Ho appears to take kindly to it, and, so far as he has gone, without the slightest sign of giving way." The unemployed at Clii-istchuvch nave had another meeting, when great dissatisfaction was expressed at the tiefcion of Government in dismissing some eighty men, who were working on the Domain for four shillings a day A committee appointed by the Provincial Council, brought up an interim report to-day, recommending the Government to re-employ the men dismissed.

Two enterprising settlers in Hawke'3 Bay have each made arrangements for importing one of Thompson's road-steamers. Both the Cross and Herald advocate bringing the City of Auckland under the operation of the "Municipal Corporation Act."

The property of married women in New Zealand may now be protected from the husband by an order from the Resident Magistrate, when the wife is subjected to cruelty, when her husband is an habitual drunkard, or shall be guilty of open adultery, or fails to provide for the maintenance of his family (otherwise than by sickness or unavoidable causes.) The Act also provides for the wife having the sole charge of the children—the boys until the age of 10 years, and the girls until the age of 18 or married.

The name of Mr Bradshaw is put forward by the country journals as a candidate for the Supenutendency of Otago.

A northern paper thus describes a novelty in building material that is being introduced in the erection of shops and dwellings :—For making the walls, a wooden mould, eighteen inches deep, is used; the brick and other hard rubbish is thrown into it, and then the Portland cement in a liquid state is poured in. When the first layer is sufficiently set, then another is commenced, and so on. The merits of the system seem to be—first, that a wall as hard as adamant is produced ; second, that every scrap of old material can be utilised, and the cartage of it thereby saved; and third, that the expense and inconvenience of the ordinary scaffolding are avoided, inasmuch as there is sufficient concrete to hold portable brackets, upon which the planks for the workmen are placed. The walls being cemented, the houses when completed have all the appearance of stone buildings.