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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 51, 2 March 1868, Page 2

..*£ V meeting was held at St. Kilda, says tba. Brighton Times, on Tuesday evening /■•last, iv the open air, with the object of = raising a relief fund for the wives and famfii es of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, as weliffci3 the Irish State prisoners, and to expws 3 their indignation at the execution of theUVFan Chester Fenians. Several resolutions-*? ere passed, one expressive of sympathywmth the Feuian attempts to obtain national independence, and affirming the • opinion of the meeting that the Manchester" sxtfcutiou was an act sufficient to justify their countrymen in using physical force Saattain the much desired end. The resolution on being seconded, was carried unanimsasry. A-collection was then made and iua*few minutes the sum of £56 was subscribed* The -Westport Evening Star has the following:: — I* has often been asked why Westport; -should have remained for such a length- of 'time without a brewery. The consumption of beer for many months has beeu very large, and all tiie supplies have been derived from Hokitika, Nelson, or Dunedin. Our Hokitika neighbors have had two or three breweries for a long time past, and most profitable speculations they have been to those who have established them. Scarcely a steamer arrives from aoy «f tho«e three places without five or }0 casks or hogsheads of ale in their manifest, and it is a question which should aaturally arise-?— how is it Westport has bo biewery ? : During the last few weeks, however, JJlessra M'Carthy and Co. have erected .&a<l opeued oue off Grladstonostreet,,and tbid week hfive produced a very excellent 'brew, competing certainly with "most of the imported, aad aurpassiag a 4e»l of »t.