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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 383, 22 October 1868, Page 2

Owing to the arrival of the English mail, we are obliged to hold over our report of the hospital Committee meeting, of last evening. ■ We are glad to say that the Nelson Educational Board have assented to the request preferred by the Local Board, for the addition of an assistant teacher, and Mrs Phillips has received the appointment. The necessity for this is obvious when it is considered that there is on an average daily attenof between 70 or 80 children. We may add that Mrs Phillips is specially suitable for post as she holds a certificate of competency from the Nelson Board. An Act has just passed the Assembly, which extends the time for filing bills of sale, to twenty-one days after the date in which they are executed. The Act comes into operation, on the first of next month.

"We perceive that Andrew Alexander Esq., ia gazetted as Paymaster, for Postal and telegraphic Services at Charleston.

The General Government "Gazette" of the 10th inst, contains a notification to the effect that his Excellency the Governor has been pleased to disband the Charleston Rifle Volunteers. The only business in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, was a case of drunkenness, and cross-actions between a Mrs Hayne, and one Dale, both of which were postponed till Monday. According to the local papers, an attempt has been made to rob the hatching boxes containing the trout ova, belonging to the Dunedin Acclimatisation Society:—" It appears that Mr Clifford the Acclimatisation Society's manager, rose between one and two in the morning, and proceeded, according to habit, towards the hatching boxes, which were about thirty or forty yards off. On seeing a light in that direction his suspicions were aroused, and on reaching the boxes he saw two men bending down to them. He seized one of them, grappled with him, and by holding a stone to his ear, pretending

it was a pistol, Mr Clifford succeeded in leading him for a distance of about 40 yards in the direction of Captain Boyd's House, when the other man came behind him and struck him, and between the two he was severely handled. The would be thieves then made their escape, and Mr Clifford returned to his house, where he was found in the morning by the man employed upon the Society's grounds almost senseless, with his face and body much bruised. On visiting the boxes it was found that the intention of the robbers was to have removed the ova in two bottles and a tin, carefully prepared for the purpose, two of these when examined, containing about the whole of the ova."