ADDISON'S.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 273, 16 June 1868, Page 2

ADDISON'S.

(fkom oue own cobbespondent). 13th June, 1868. I visited Addison's on the 4th inst. and found the track in a bad condition but observed some men repairing it. The track to the Shamrock Lead is in an impassable state, several houses are waiting to be removed and cannot even be carried in pieces in consequence of the condition of the ground. No track has been constructed by the Government over here, and the sooner one is commenced the better, as the want of it is retarding business considera'bly. Kelly and party struck payable gold in their claim yesterday which makes an addition to the number now bottomed on gold in the Shamrock Lead. In the third township twenty claims remain flooded, so as the tunnel party demand £2OO for relieving them of water, and the occupiers offer £l2O, and so the matter rests. Certainly £2OO is not an overcharge for twenty claims,

when we think of the time and labor which was required some time since in hailing water from those very claims. The Mechanics' Institute have altered their designation and now style them selves the Addison's Flat Heading Boom. The following are the committee :—Mr Daniel G-arvey, president; Dr Donovan, vice-president; Tobias Glennon, treasurer; Win. O'Connell, secretary. A sum of £l6 10s Jwas handed the treasurer in a short space of time. At a meeting the other evening the Committee proposed taking in the principal papers, viz., the Westport Times and Charleston Argus, the Westland Observer, the Celt, with Melbourne, Sydney, and Home papers, magazines, &c. The rate of subscription for the present will be 5s per month. A code of rules has been sent for to Hokitika, and when final arrangements are made they will be published. The principal men an the townships are subscribing to this laudable undertaking, and the promoters of it deserve great credit. These is, I was informed, great "dissatisfaction, owing to the Celtic Committee giving no account of the money received at the ball which took place some weeks ago at the Casino, in aid, as then Stated, of the Celt newspaper. It was currently reported a large sum of money had -been collected at this ball, which was stated to have been a perfect success. On Kynnersley's Terrace mining operations are going on satisfactorily. The flat is holding on the same way, and yielding a fair return to those engaged on it. The storekeepers are still complaining of the scarcity of moagy; this is the more strange when more gold has been recently sold from Addison's than at any previous j>eriod.