CHARLESTON NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 185, 4 March 1868, Page 3

CHARLESTON NEWS.

An accident, which though somewhat alarming, was fortunately unattended with any serious results, happened to Cobb's coach shortly after taking its departure from the Melbourne hotel, on Monday. Two Or three hundred yards along the Buller road, a water-wheel haa recently been erected close alongside the roadway, and being unsecured, it has a frightening effect upon horses passing. A newteam happened to be in the coach that morning, and on approaching the wheel, the leaders shied, and in spite of the driver's whip, fell back on the wheels, and the road being scarcely more than ten feet wide at this point, the coach was only saved from a capsize over the terrace by one of the wheelers bring thrown and breaking the pole. Mr Smith rode out to meet the Buller coach which was brought on to Charleston. "We understand the Warden has given notice to the proprietors of the water-wheel to have it properly secured, or to remove the machinery to another spot, The following is a statement of receipts and expenditure in oonnesion with the late grand ball given by the Oddfellows Society. Total receipts, 7S tickets at a guinea each, £Bl 18s. Expenditure—Messrs Nahr & Curtis's contract for supper, mnsic, and room, £6O ; advertising and printing, Charleston Herald, £6; ditto, Westport Tinies, £5 ; decorations, £1 3s 6d ; stationery ss; leaving a balance of £9 9s 6d, which has been handed over to the Charleston Hospital. We must congratulate the stewards who had the management of the ball, on the success and satisfaction which attended their arduous exertions. We obsei-ve the Nathans have another new bill for to-night, little Sclina Nathan appearing in her favorite character of Fanny Grribbles, and La Petite Mrrion being set down again for " Finnigan's Wake;" the concluding piece being a nautical ballet, in which the favorite comes out as William, the midshipman.