The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1868.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 415, 28 November 1868, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1868.

In a resume of the New Bankruptcy Act, recently given in these columns, it was stated that a remedy had beea provided for the excessively inconvenient arrangement by which insolvency, declarations were gazetted only in the Gazette of each province. This remedy, it was explained, was contained in a clause by which each Judge of the Supreme Court is empowered to appoint any gazette or newspaper in his judicial district as a gazette for the purposes of the Act. Still more recently our columns contained a report of a bankruptcy case—that of Godfrey —which prominently illustrated the amount of loss and litigation which might arise in such a district as this, from the continuance of the original arrangement. Advantage of the powers contained in the new Act has been readily taken by Mr Justice Richmond, and, by his appointment, this journal will in future be the gazette for the district. The letter of appointment, of which we have received a copy, is as follows :

"I have the honor to inform you that His Honor Mr Justice Richmond has been pleased to appoint the Westport Times newspaper, to be the gazette for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act 1867, and the Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act 1868, from the Ist December next, for such part of the Judicial District of Nelson as lies to the southward and westward of a line drawn Btraight from

Rocks Point to the summit of Mount Arthur, and tbence due south to the southern boundary of the said district. " You will observe that the settlement of Brighton and others to the southward of the Five Fingers Rocks, being in the Westland Judicial District, are not included in the New Gazette District now appointed.

It has been found necessary to discontinue, for the present, the weekly reprint of this journal. The tale which it included will probably be resumed when a weekly journal will be published in an altered and improved form.

The Bank .of New Zealand shipped yesterday, per Charles Edward, 3,2000z. lldwts. and 16gs. of gold. We understand that a private telegram has been received in Westport, reporting the result of the civil case of Apted v. Kynnersley, which has been tried in the Supreme Court, Nelson. The claim by the plaintiff was for damages on account of an assault committed upon him by the defendant. The damages were laid at £IOOO. By the defendant £5 had been paid into Court, and a verdict was given for this amount, with £2 as doctor's fee, but without the costs of the suit. Mr Button, of Hokitika, had been retained to conduct the case for the plaintiff. As will be seen by advertisement, the Rev. Father Walsh will officiate in the Boman Catholic Church to-morrow.

Mr. F. Last, dentist, has returned to Westport for a few weeks, and may be consulted during his stay at the shop of Mr Williams, chemist, Gladstone street.

The Treasurer of the Hospital Committee acknowledges the receipt of an additional subscription of £2 2s from Mr E. K. Tyler. The Rev. Mr Porteus returned yesterday from Hokitika, per Waipara, after an absence of three weeks. He will resume his usual duties in town.

Monday nest is St. Andrew's Day, and in Hokitika and other places it is to be observed as a holiday. Mr Sale, Mr Bond, Mr Prosser, Mr Boyle, and Mr Cassius are candidates for election as County Councillors for Hokitika. At Okarita Mr Barff is opposed by Mr Heron. Mr Iloos stands for Ross. The West Coast Times says : —" Mr Harrison has authorised us to state that he does not intend to become a candidate for re-election to the County Council, in consequence of the pressure of his private engagements at the Grey." A gold-bearing quartz-reef has been discovered within six miles of Adelaide. The latest news from the Waikato is that the Natives are peacefully disposed. Young Austin, the pedestrian, has, at Sydney, run eleven miles in 1 hour 1 minute, 13 seconds.

A new goldfiekl has been found near Steiglitz, Victoria, which promises to turn out very well.