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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 411, 24 November 1868, Page 2

His Excellency, the Governor is expected to make his southern trip in H.M.S. Blanche. Westport is included in the list of places to be visited. A resident of Westport has received a letter from Camp Town, kelson Creek, the writer of which says : This place is going a-head. The diggers are Hocking here day after day, and the diggings are extending, as there was new ground found every week since I came here. There are from 1200 to 1500 men here, and three townships now in Kelson Creek within a distance of three miles. There are about forty places of business in the three townships. This place, Camp Town, is about sixteen miles up the Groy. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterda}', Mr Pitt mentioned that a mining case of considerable importance was to be heard before the Warden on Wednesday. As he was about to proceed to Nelson, and Mr Tyler was engaged on , the other side, one of the parties would be without legal assistance. He, therefore, asked for the case to be postponed. Mr Tyler objected, as the postponement would keep eight men idle, and he proposed rather that neither party should be represented by counsel. On this understanding, it was arranged that the case, which concerns some disputed ground on Giles Terrace, should be heard on Wednesday. One item of the commercial intelligence received by the Panama Mail, and forwarded by telegraph, is the report that at the August sales the price of wool had declined 2d, 3d, and 4d per lb. on the lowest price obtained at the May and June sales. jSTew Zealand and Australian securities generally had again been well supported. The scarcity of provisions is being much felt by the few men who are working on the Wanganui beach. A party of four came down yesterday with the intention of chartering a craft to take up a supply which they think will last for twelve months. Fifteen miles inland from the Karamca, at Fenian Gully, some coarse gold has been obtained, but not in large quantities. Only fourteen men arc working in the gully, inconsequence of their being unable to procure flour or other food, except by carrying it a distance of fifteen miles over a broken country. The men who are working on the beach have cultivated gardens, in which they have a good supply of potatoes and other vegetables growing, but these, wholesome enough in themselves, are not all that is required. The chief impediment to their work is the want of water. Their supply is in some cases brought a distance of two miles, and, as it is mostly surface water, it is more liable to get short in dry weather. A luxuriant crop of grass is growing in the streets of Mohikinui, which only twelve months since presented a lively appearance, and contained, although it did not support, a few hundred people. Mr W. C. Shepherd, the Dunedin pedestrian, has entered for the grand handicap sweepstakes, to be run in Melbourne this month. There are sixteen entries. Dunedin is the only part of JN T ew Zealand represented, the other fifteen being from Victoria and New South Wales.