MR SHAW'S MEETINGS.

West Coast Times, Issue 646, 19 October 1867, Page 2

MR SHAW'S MEETINGS.

Mr Shaw addressed the citizen's last evening,, at tho New Orleans and Post Office Hotels. Both meetings were numerously attended, and at both the candidate spoke at considerable length, repeating his views on municipal matters, and setting forth his claims to tho suffrages of the citizens. After Mr Shaw had replied to ecvcral questions which were put to him, votes •to the effect that he was a fit and proper person to fill the office of Mayor were passed.

The " Wostport Evening Star" gives us the following items of mining intelligence:—"e :—":—": — " The latest accounts which have reached us from the Mohikinui mention the arrival in the township of a largo parcel of gold, obtained a sliort distance up the Mohikinui River. Accounts from tho various workings around the township continuo highly satisfactory, and the minors generally are unanimous in their opinion of tho bright future in store for the district. On Saturday, a party arrived in Westporb from Charleston for the purposo of erecting a cement-crushing machine, about four miles from hero, in the direction of Mohikinui. A specimen of tho cement said to have boon obtained in that locality was taken to Charleston, and o» being cruahod yielded a prospect which it was estimatod would freely pay L2O per week per "man. The cost of erecting a crushing machine would be from Ll5O to L2OO, according to the number of stampers. If cemont in any quantity 13 obtainable (as we aro informed it is) the machine will soon pay the cost df its erection, and its owners reap a highly satisfactory reward for their enterprise. Tho cement workings of Charleston have proved the mainstay of tho district, and if satisfied of tho payable quality of the cement, the storekeepers readily defray tho expense of erecting machines where tho projectors are without tho necessary means ; of course, on the understanding that they ba reimbursed with the first proceeds. Such encouragement cannot fail to be beneficial to the district generally, as well as to both miner and storekeeper j and wo hope before long to see cement crushing form an important branch of Mining in tbj teighborhogd of, W«stporfc."