ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER WESTPORT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 7 November 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER WESTPORT.

, West-port, Monday. Captain Williams' new steamer Westport Brrived here from Cardiff at 10-30 this morning after a 62 days' passage. She has ten pagaeDgers. All well. She sails for Wellington to-morrow morning. The Kennedy fas* armed from Cjwwell

Sotrnd. There are 16 men working there. The marble is highly spoken of by the steamer* people. DnNitDiN, Monday. Gathrie.&nd Larnfich'g tender for tho supply of a million railway sleepers has been accepted. Go'dstein v. Goldstein, the first case under She I)ivorcß Act of Ys.it session, It being heard before Mr Jn&iiice Johnston tc-day. Wellington, Mocdsy. Tho Australia with the London mails of the 6th ultimo left Sas Francisco for Auckland en the i ! 2cd inst., ber contract date. Christchbrch, Monday. Tno hundred and fifty entries bave been ruccived for the Jbog Show. Last night Madame Lottio Wilmot, being refused tha key of the Papenui Town Hall which ohe had hired for & lecture, assaulted the Secretary of the Town Hall Company with a iupplfjack. Oa Saturday next a rneetiag will be held at LseiioQ to consider the advisability of bringing forward a candidate to oppose thf Hon John Hull. Mr John Runuia, a local faroif r, is spoken of as the candidate. A male infant threa rhontha old was found dfEGrted jeti^rdty near the Catholic Church; There ar© 87 candidate! for tha University examinations Commencing on the 14th November. Of these, 68 are for the B. A. degiee, 2 for the M. A , 5 for (he L. L. 15., and one for the L. L. D. Sixty names have air :£dy been receited for the matriculation examination next tuouth. A c-rrespondent nritiag to the Lyttello* Timet this morning suggests that, a Te Whiti dsfence fliad bs organised and promises to subscribe. Mr G. G. Stead, now in England, has purchased nine thorougbred mares and one colt, and shipped them for Lyttelton. Sporting matters are unusually quiet for the eve of the Metropolitan meeting. Betting absolutely is at a stand still. The training gallops this morning presented no special features. The town is gradually filling with visitors, but does not "seem so busy as in previous years.