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Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 146, 18 January 1868, Page 2

Receipts and Expenditube of the Kelson Pbovince'. The following items relating to the receipts and expenditure of the Nelson South West Goldfields, for the quarter ending December 31, 1867, are extracted from the Government Gazette of the 10th instant: —Receipts—Gold Duty, £8,246 15s 7d; South-West Goldfields, £9,702 15s 2d. Expenditure—Department il — South-West Goldfields, £13,924 16s; Public Works West-Coast Eoads, £19,376 16s 3d. The receipts for the Province during the quarter wan £49,647 Is 6d ; balance to next quar.'M-, £20,851 5s 2d ; making total receipts, £70,498 6s 8d The expenditure f.r the same period was—Departmental, £18,032 7s 7d; Public Works and Purposes, £29,865 17s lOd ; Advances, £3,541 2s lid; Total Disbursements, £51,439 8s 4d ; Balance from last quarter, £19,058 18s 4d; making Total Expenditure, £70,498 6s Bd. The Election. A numerouslysigned petition was presented to Mr J. B. Clarke yesterday, but up to a late hour no definite answer had been returned. Mb Ceate's Meeting.—We have been requested to correct a mis-state-ment that appeared in our notice of the meeting on Thursday evening, to the effect that Mr Neil's name was coupled with the question about weights and measures. We are assured that no name was mentioned, although our reporter imagined he heard it coupled with the question. The " Karamea Eoad" is also mis- printed " Karamea Ward" and by a singular coincidence the JEvening Star of last night has falien into the same e,r >r. Pbompt Payment !—We have to acknowledge the receipt by last night's mail, of a voucher to an account for £3 10s against the General Government, which has to be se.it back to Wellington with our sigmture. The account is dated Januaiy 16, 1867, exactly twelvemonths since. When we get the money, the office will be illuminated, but that will probably be sometime next winter.

Bankruptcy Notices.—The following declarations of insolvency appeared in the Nelson Provincial Gazette of the 10th inst: —Frederick Jones, Westport, publican; Hugh Robertson, Mokihinui, baker; James Hayes, Addison's Flat, storekeeper; Leonard Whittington, Addison's Flat,

baker ; Henry Elmes Campbell, Westport, solicitor; George Blair, Westport, publican; Emma Adams, Westport, hotelkeeper; George Harrison, Westport, hotelkeeper; Thomas William Melville, Westport, hotelkeeper; Edmund Andrew Duffy, Addison's Plat, storekeeper; Reginald HenryCamp Bennett, Brighton, doctor of medicine.

Election Notice.—We clip the following paragraph from the Nelson Colonist of the 14th inst:—We hear that there is some probability of Mr J. Paul coming forward as a candidate for the representation of Westport in the Provincial Council. The election takes place on the 25th instant.

Presbyterian.—Divine service in connection with the Presbyterian denomination, will be held at Mr Frazer's schoolroom, every Sunday morning and evening (D.V.) at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., by the Bev. Mr Dickson.

The Prince at Dunedin.—lt is stated that the Duke of Edinburgh has been induced to promise that he will visit Dunedin before leaving New Zealand. How if he should look in at Westport on the way thither? Wouldn't he be delighted with our noble streets ? our magnificent quays ? and above all, with Mr Crate's seven T's —supposing they are built by that time ? Resident Magistrate's Con t. — Mr Kynuersldy sat yesterday, in the absence of Dr Giles at Mokihinui, to hear police complaints, civil cases, and Warden's cases. Amongst the former, John Hayden and John O'Hara were charged with vagrancy and dismissed, as also was Robert Montgomery, who was Accused by Mr Harrison of stealing a concertina, which it turned out lie had simply borrowed. Among the ciyil suits the two summonses of Boatmen aga'nst the Sports Committee were again adjourned. Mr Kynnersley declining to adjudicate on the same grounds as Dr Giles had previously done. One of the cases is proposed to be referred to Captain Kirkpatrick for arbitration. There were two complaints in the Warden's Court of illegal occupation of ground on the Caledonian Lead, both of which were dismissed with costs, as being entirely without foundation. The complainant not being able to pay the costs, £ll, was imprisoned till the money was produced.

The Escape of Mb and Mbs Fox at St. Thomas. The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times gives the following account of ths escape of Mr Fox (formerly Premier of New Zealand) and his lady at St. Thomas :—Amongst the passengers by the Kaikoura are Mr and Mrs Fox, and Mr Morrison, the Colonial Agent. It is nothing short of a miracle that lias permitted them to arrive here. Travellers see strange sights, and the strangest of those happening to Mr Fox during his last few years of travel happened at St. Thomas. On the 19th November, while at that island, numerous shocks of earthquake were experienced, as many as fifty in one day. Instead of being lateral, as they generally are, they were wholly vertical, and little damage to buildings took place. Mr Fox had been out sketching, and thinking shipboard preferable to the shore, had intended, with Mr Morrison and one or two others, to go off to the steamer La Plata in the company's tug. Fortunately, they were a little late and the tug had started, so they took a boat. While they were rowing under a promontory they saw the crews of the harbor ships in a state of excitement, and presently the remnant of a tidal wave, some twenty-five feet high, was upon them Mr Morrison, the other passenger, and the boatman jumped overboard; Mr and Mrs Fox remained, in the hope of being carried high and dry. They saw it toss a large schooner bottom upward like a child's toy, and then it overwhelmed them. Mr and Mrs Fox were at first in a doubly perilous position under the boat; but the draw (under tow I think is the nautical term) liberated them. Mr Fox caught Mrs Fox and some shore hands caught them both. Mr Morrison was floated under the wharf; but somehow or other they were all rescued, and dragged safely to land. The tug in which they had intended to go bein<; further out, rank as soon as capsized, not a soul escaping. I fear I shall be considered romancing when I say that at the lowest computation this tidal wave was from fifty to sixty feet high, and travelled at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The entrance to St. Thomas, which is a wide mile, broke it; and when the fag-end reached the shore, it had become reduced to the moderate proportions above-named. Previous to reaching St. Thomas, a Mr Mather, of (or for) Southland, died. those who went off to the Kaikoura on her arrival, to meet Mr Fox, 1 noticed Dr Featherston, and I was glad to notice that amongst those on the wharf awaiting his landing, was Mr Stafford. Mr Fox is expected to leave town for his home at Eangitikei, in about ten days, where he will no doubt remain for some few months to come.