CALEDONIAN.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 286, 1 July 1868, Page 3

CALEDONIAN.

(frou our own correspondent.) The nomination of candidates to serve* as a permanent committee for Westport Hospital took place yesterday evening at Mr M'Farlane's store. Mr Jno. Braithwaite in the ehair. Mr Ormsby acted as honorary secretary. Mr "Robert M'Farlane, David Barrie, Jno. Munro, E. Tyler, J. L. Munson, J. V. Smith, P. E. Smythe, "E. C. Reid, Robert Alcorn, A. J. Browne, J. Powell, Jno. Scott, Thomas Dewdney, Mathew Steele, Thomas Marshall, Mathew Byrne, Angus M'Crae, Win. Newlove, Christinn Bruuen, Patrick Brennan, Samuel Alexander, Robert Bingham, Pirie, of White and Pirie, and Mr M'Gill, of M'Gill and Bull. Messrs M'Earlane and Barrie have in hand £2O, and expect more in aid of the Hospital fund. Conrad and Party, to whom I alluded in my last, have struck the lead which they were in quest of, but they 1 ave not yet washed. Langrish and Party have been prospecting south of the Arowaite, and are prospecting for the main run of S okl - At Giles terrace a store is being put up, and should the tunnel next to the prospectors strike gold, there will be a big rush round here. At Deadmans a store has been also erected, and there are a good many men on the ground, but neither of the tunnels in the gully have as yet come on gold.

At the Caledonian, Marshall and party have struck, the main bottom run of gold, and are preparing to wash. They went GOO feet to finish this run, but their enterprise is now one of reward. Steele and party have also struck good payable gold after tunnelling 600 feet. At Ballarat terrace, Smith and party have put in a tunnel 200 feet, and are four months working, they are making about .£BO a week. On Poverty Terrace, Murphy and party went in 9G feet before they came on gold. They have about 20 inches of fair wash dirt, and are making about £6 a week. They hope to have five months work in their claim yet.

The finding of the main bottom run of gold is a most important fact for the future of the Caledonian, as well as Westport, and goes to prove from the direction it has taken, that this lead goes north, and it is extremely probable all along the north line of country towards the Mokihinui, where there are as good looking terraces as the Caledonian. Coarse gold has been already found as far as the Waimongaroa, and the gold on this main bottom run is coarse, and the wash dirt six feet in thickness, besides being more productive than any yet discovered at the Caledonian. More than half the road on the main street is finished, and evenly gravelled.

An amateur theatrical performance in aid of the funds of the "Westport hospital, is contemplated, as well as a ball, by which the friends of the sick hope to realise some additional funds for that institutions. _ A good many men from other diggings, are daily coming and having, as they term it, a look round about the Caledonian and German Terrace. A share in a water-race is to be raffled for on the Art Union principle at Barrie's store on German Terrace. It is an eight share, and worth about £l3O There are a good many tickets disposed of at present at £1 each.