CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 276, 19 June 1868, Page 3

CHARLESTON.

About twenty children were formally baptised by the Lord Bishop of Nelson on Monday afternoon. There was a large concourse of ladies to witness and take part in the interesting ceremony, which took place in Mr White's church. The evening previous, his Lordship, in the same building, preached a very eloquent discourse, which was attentively listened to by a congregation more than sufficient to fill the church in every part. The collection, amounting to £lO, has been handed over by the Bishop to the committee appointed to raise funds for building a church and parsonage. This committee had their first meeting on Tuesday evening, there being present Messrs R. P. Bain (in the «hair), G-. W. Lightband, Kennedy, Neale, M'Coy, A. B. Bain, Allen, Oasqoice, and Steele. Two gentlemen, Messrs Gasqoine and Allen, consented to act as joint treasurers, and Mr A. *». Bain as honorary secretary, and to

the former wao handed over the subscription list of the previous evening, amounting to £9l. To allow of the outlying members of committee being present, it was resolved to adjourn the meeting until Saturday evening, the same to be notified by advertising, and in the meantime certain forms of subscriptions were ordered to be prepared. The names of the following miners were added to the committee :—Messrs Penny (Candlelight), Kyle and Harris (Brown's Terrace) ; and Mr Lightband was requested to communicate with the Commissioner respecting getting a portion of tbe Camp Reserve as a site, in order to save time in case of the committee selecting such a position.

; Some degree of alarm seems to have ! been created in Brighton last week, by a man who arr.ved from the G-rey! i and reported at the Camp that he had been stuck up in the track by four men who were armed. Sergeant Walsh and Constable Irvine started off at once towards the Eazorback, and returned next day with three men in irons. When the matter came to be investigated by Mr Broad on his return from Brighton, it appeared that two of the men in custody were Messrs Bromley and M' Milieu, proprietors of the 12 mile bridge and hotel, who were accused of resisting the police in the discharge of their duty, and a man in their employ charged with drunkenness. On examination the man who professed to have been the victim of attempted robbery related a long story about his being stuck up on the track by two men and escaping to the Twelve Mile hotel, and afterwards during the night hearing the proprietors, Bromley and M'Millen conspiring with the same two men to kill him, upon which he ran into the bush and was lost for two days. He also said he had just been discharged from the Grreymouth hospital. The charge brought by the police against Bromley and M'Millen was dismissed by the Magistrate, who severely reprimanded the officers, as it appeared they themselves kept the men up drinking and playing cards all night, until a disturbance took place, when the police clapped handcuffs on the proprietors, and after locking them up in a room they turned into the proprietors' beds, leaving the servant to help himself to the liquors.