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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 215, 8 April 1868, Page 2

Newspaper Bußisri^a.—Some of the ladies of Addison's Flat, amused themselves yesterday morning by burning the copies of the Westport Times taken up by our agent. We tell them that no attempts of theirs, will keep down the truth, and all these acts only add to the long list of evil doings which are crying aloud to Heaven for vengeance. The Weather.—This of late most unpleasant theme is once more brought under our notice by the advent of one fine day to enliven us. We hope it may be the first of a series, which is much needed after the last six months dreary rainy summer. The New Custom House.—This building is nearing completion, and we are informed will be rendered habitable by the end of the week. We will defer a description of it until its completion. Tracks.—There seems a probability of the tracks to Addison's and the Caledonian receiving some repairs at the hands of G-overnment, and if anything is done to render these tracks any way passable it will not be before such repair is needed.

Balance op the Loyal Caledonian Fund.—We are authorised to state that the balance of the Subscription amounting to £2. lis. 6d. left after the expenses of the Demonstration were paid, has been handed by the Committee to the Commissioner, for the benefit of tho Westport Hospital. Up-Buller Diggings.—The accounts received by the return of some miners from the Lyel distiict are not very encouraging; the weather is frightful, and the river has been much swollen in tho gorges. The returned men do not speak well of the prospects, and report the probable return of a very large proportion of the miners stationed up the river. Gold Export.—Tho John Penn, on Monday, took a considerable quantity of gold south for the Bank of New Zealand. Action against the Bank of New Zealand. —An action against the Bank of New Zealand, for false imprisonment is now pending. The preliminary steps were taken before Judge Richmond in chambers on Eriday. The plaintiff is James Sims, formerly .storekeeper at Mokihinui, who presented a petition, together with an affidavit and a statement of the case and a petition thereon by Mr Ralph Richardson, his attorney at Nelson, and upon hearing, was allowed to sue in forma pauperis. The sum sought to be recovered is £2OOO. — Colonist. Opinion of Mock Funeral Processions in Melbourne.— We take the following from the Australasian: —" Fenianism lives and has been kicking up its heels wonderfully in no less a place than Hokitika, on the West Coast of New Zealand. In that locality a procession in honor of the Manchester murderers has been duly organised and successfully carried out, under the leadership of a priest of the name of Larkin. Some seven or eight hundred persons, inclusive of women, children and lunatics, acting under the guidance of this preacher of the gospel of peace, marched and counter-marched last Sunday week in the neighborhood of Hokitika, with banners, hearses, green scarfs, and appropriate devices. Eventually they broke into the cemetery, and went through the horrible farce of erecting a monument in memory of the three Eenians who were hanged at Manchester for killing Constable Brett. They were addressed by Larkin in an extraordinary harangue, the mingled treason and blasphemy of which could not well be surpassed It is a stigma on the people of Hokitika *that they suffered such a scene to be enacted in their midst, and a lasting disgrace to the authoiities of the town that, although they had ample preliminary notice, they allowed the cemetary, where lay the bones of the reputable dead, to be desecrated by this apophysis of treason and ruffianism."