CHARLESTON NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 204, 26 March 1868, Page 2

CHARLESTON NEWS.

Although the times are said to be rather quiet just now, several improvements of one kind or another arc being carried ou* in the buildings of the town. Amongst others we observe that Messrs Wcitzoll and Co., of the European Hotel, have taken into their premises the adjoining shop lately occupied by Mr Sternberg, and made such alterations so that the whole now presents one entire front of an ornamental character. On the opposite sice of the street, the modest retiring little cottage standing next door to Miss Murphy's Hotel, has had a fine new shop front added to it, and is about to bo opened as a jeweller's by Mr Broadbent, the back being used by Mr George Kenny, as a hair-dressing establishment. Further down the street we notice some extensive improvements made by Mr Parsons, who having recently purchased the building known as Corbett's drapery establishment, next door to the Criterion Hotel, pulled both houses down and has erected on the site a larger hotel with a small shop attached. We have heard a rumor of another candidate coming forward to contest the election with Mr Donne and Mr Home. The person of is, wc understand, a practical miner, but we do not place much confidence in the report. A large quantity of machinery was landed yesterday from the Waipara, consigned to Mace and M'Coy, who, we believe, arc about to erect other crushing works. From some cause or another, not easily understood by one outside of the trade, the butchers shops on Wednesday were entirely devoid of meat —not a pound of chops could be got for love or money. It would bo a good thing, wc should think, if some one connected with the business of supplying the town with meat was to form a paddock or two, laid down with grass, in which a stock of cattle and sheep could be maintained in good condition. There is land suitable for such a purpose in the valley of the Nile, which being but lightly timbered would not be very costly to clear.