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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 438, 25 December 1868, Page 2

The Land Sports commence on Saturday. See fourth page. A small supplement accompanies our present number, with, some matter applicable to Christmas. The Rev. Mr Walsh will officiate in the Roman Catholic Church at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday next. The Airedale arrived at Nelson on Thurs ■ day at 4 p.m., with the Panama mails from Wellington. The next steamer due from Nelson at this port is the Kennedy, and probably she will bring the Westport portion of the mails.

It is expected that the next escort from Charleston will brin* up 10,000ozs of gold. We have .receiv d from Mr D. O'Connell Warmoll (whose wife is now in the Hospital suffering from burns accidentally received at Giles Terrace) a letter complaining of neglect in matters of detail important to patients in the institution. Quite contrary to rule, but, perhaps, with better effect than publishing the letter, we have brought the matter under the notice of the Visiting Committee; and, no doubt, if there is anything to remedy, it will be remedied.

The Education Committee met yesterday afternoon at the Court House. Present— Messrs Tyler (chairman), Harris, Harvey, Franklyn, Munro, and Reid. The object of the meeting was to consider the-acceptance, or otherwise, of Mr Phillips's resignation. The Committee decided that they did not consider it at present necessary that Mr Phillips should resign. A Victorian team of cricketers ore expected to visit New Zealand this, season.

The steamer Otago, on her last passage from Melbourne to the Bluff, experienced a terrific gale sixty miles west of the Solander, and had to heave to for thirty hours, with considerable damage, two boats on board the steamer for the Lyttelton Bowing Club being smashed. She had 110 passengers, including the second detachment of, recruits for the North Island.

The Customs authorities at Melbourne seized a hogshead entered a3 eggs for transhipment from Sydney to Hokitika. It was found to contain a hundred-weight of tobacco. News from Mauritius to the 3rd November reports that the sugar crop this season will not exceed one hundred thousand tons. Sugars are scarce, and prices at Melbourne have advanced. Some considerable transactions occurred lately, and the prices have advanced about 50s all round.

Mr Boyse, of Messrs Eoyse, Mudie, and Co., has left Hokitika for South Australia. On Monday evening, he was invited to a supper by a number of citizens, at which the Mayor was in the chair, and Mr A. Mowatt, one of the oldest friends of the guest, proposed the toast of his health. Mr John Anderson, of the Canterbury Foundry, has been unanimously elected Mayor of Christchurch for the ensuing year.

The Kaikoura's passengers, by last accounts from Wellington, were either to be landed for quarantine on Soames Island, or to be put on board the Lady-bird, to be anchored in the bay till they are passed by the Health Officer.

The barque Avondale has arrived at Melbourne with small-pox on board. The mate died of the disease after landing in Melbourne, but the vessel has been released from quarantine.

There has been a riot at the Waimea in connection with the local elections. Several men were arrested.

The Hokitika Daily News states that, on on Saturday last, when Detective Browne went to arrest a woman named Dugmore, the lady declined to appear in any other costume than Eve's own, and having divested herself of every rag of clothing, informed the officer that he could carry her on his back if he liked. This offer was declined, and with very scant ceremony the nude prisoner was wrapped up in a blanket and conveyed to the station-house. The character of the woman may be gathered from these facts, and she very deservedly received three months' imprisonment with hard labor. Dr Hector was to deliver a lecture at Nelson on Tuesday evening on the "geology of New Zealand, more particularly as relating to the Province of Nelson." It is to be hoped that our Nelson contemporaries will report the lecture somewhat fully.