WESTPORT NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 22, 28 September 1894, Page 20

WESTPORT NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By Old Identity )

September 21, 1894 Active preparations are being made for a vocal and instrumental entertainment to be held on the 18th Ocob.r next, at the Princess Theatre, in a,d of the fund 8 of St Canice's school. The obi 'cub a laudable one, and I am pleased to learn tiat tbe tickets are going cff

The Rev Father McCormack preached h,. two first sermons in St Cao.ces Church last Sunday week-mormcg and evening-and his eloquent discourses on each occasion were listened to with wr,J attention by large congregations, k "

Ihe proguost.cat.oD, in my last, that the members for the north and couth ward seats ,n the Borough Counc.l would be returned unopposed <ai quite correct, with t^e slight d.fferencMh.t Mr W Nahr did not seek re-eUction. and Mr James Colvm took his plac/ Mra Janet Leech, wife of the Harbourmaster herp WM nn^ , a for the south ward, but after feeling the pulse of' tL ,^To" ?. decided not ,0 go to tbe poll, much to she o.sappoin.ment of ™ y Messrs Robert Carr, compositor, and VV. L. England, merchant, were nominated for the middle ward and they foupht th« o i finish, with the result that the old memoStn £ "£% whelming majori.y-thus placing another Municipal victory to h ' credit. The figures we re :-Carr, 91 ; England 20 I sI h worthy of mention that nearly 30 persons were precluded fZ recording their votes owing to influenza and the inclemency of the weather, the mspnty of whom were staunch supporters of the win ning candidate. win " The libel action, Harden r. Manro, has been settl.d out of court an apology having been tendered and accepted. '

D: W. P. Willis, of Ri2bmond, Victoria, received the appointment of medical officer to the Westpart district hospital. Thtre were | 19 applications for the position from all parts of the Australian colonies, including one loci! medical man (Dr Gaz >). Dr Willis is j said to possess first-class qualific it'ons in surgery, which greatly S influenced his appointment to the position, this town being a mining centre. The successful applicant forwarded his portrait, and one ! of the local papers also supplied its readers with particulars respect- , ing his height (sft 6in) 30 years of age, an abstainer, married, a young i man of forceful character (judging from his picture) and so forth. What a marvellous age we live in I Captain Cox, second mate on the s.s. Janet Nicoll, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Harbourmaster at this port, vice Captain Me'calf. There were 24 applications submitted to the ! Harbour Board for selection, and the choice of the majority fell upon Captain T. W. Cox. He was formerly Assistant Harbormaster at Nelson.

The notice wbich the Goverjtneat has serve i upon the coal

companies holding leases in this district, that their rights would be j forfeited unless the oatpjt cjaditions wara fulfillei immediately, meets with the approval of all right-think n? oloaists, and the step wbich they (the Government) h*vi taken is to ba commended. At the quirterly meeting of the Bailer Licensing Committee, held on the Bth instant, at the court house, Mrs Malony, Messrs ! Patrick Ryan and C. Gording were granted removal of their publican's license to Coalbrockdale and Burnett's Face, on certain conditions as to accommodation, Mr B. Carr, chairman pro tern of the Licensing Committee, Binned the certificates for reauval yesterday. The Weetport Coal Compiny objected for some years past to tbe granting of licenses in the vuinity of the mines, bat the comp ny , did not oppose at the last meeting.