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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 450, 9 January 1869, Page 2

This is the day appointed for the nomination of a member of the Nelson Provincial Council for tbe Buller district. The nomination is appointed to take place at the Court-house in Westport. The hour, we presume, will be twelve o'clock. The poll, if such be necessary, will be taken on Wednesday next, at the Westport and Addison's Flat Court-houses, and at Mr John Braithwaite's store, Caledonian Terrace. Up to this hour no candidate has offered himself, nor has a requisition been presented to anyone. The Treasurer of the Hospital acknowledges the. receipt of £2 from Mr David Leslie, and £1 from Mr E. J. O'Conor. There have been during the week one or two other contributions worthy of notice. Mrs Giles seuc a large parcel of linen ; Mrs Labatt also forwarded a similar gift; and Mrs Harris bas been kind enough to send in some jellies and wine for the patients. We are requested to state that contributions of linen are always gratefully received. A meeting of the Progress Committee was appointed for four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The only members who attended were Mr Humphrey and Mr Alcorn, and there was, consequently, no business done. It is to be hoped that at the next meeting, which takes place on Friday, the 15th inst. there will be a full attendance. By that time it is probable that answer shall have been received to communications which have been forwarded to the communities in the southern part of the Province on the subject of Separation and the establiehment of a County, and there are, besides, some motions of which notice has been tabled and which it would be well for the Committee to dispose of. An,action to recover£looodamages for a breach of promise of marriage has been brought in the .Otago Supreme Court, by Isabella Carr, of Oamaru, against William Stevenson, a wheelwright. The Judge said the facts disdisclosod justified t'ie giving exemplary damages, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict for £IOQ.

A Charleston correspondent writes: —" By the ketch Standard and by the s.s. Waipara we have had fresh importations of machinery for the Four Mile, where there is ground that will pay for years to come. All the works in the Nile Valley will contribute largely to the escort this summer, and are expected to pay handsome dividends. There have been no fresh finds in the district for some time, but, by the aid of this machinery, years of good work are anticipated." An important circular from the Maori King, which was read at a large native meeting, held at Awhahuri (Upper Manawatu), is published by the Wellington Independent. It contains the following instructions: — "That the sword is to be sheathed. Leases not to be granted to Europeans. All purchases to cease between the races. That the boundary is fixed. No more roads are to be made. Digging for gold is not to be allowed. No more surveys are to be made. The schools are not to be attended. No parties are allowed to enter any European courts of justice." The circular concludes thus ;—" These articles have been forbidden before. This is the second time they have been forbidden, and they are strongly forbidden." ~ The shipment of gold from Shortland is steadily increasing. The Advertiser of December 28th says : "The gold shipped at the Thames for the .fortnight ended 15th December amounted to 8,926 ounces. On Mouday. the bank of New Zealand shipped 1,100 ounces, and yesterday the Union Bank of Australia shipped 4,500 ounces, iuclusive of 2,942 ounces from Hunt's claim, the result of only a fortnight's crushing. The above returns give a total of 15,726 ounces, the greater portion of which, will be exported in the ship Siain, now loading at Auckland for London," Schafer, the German traveller, left Auckland, in the s.s. Hero, for Melbourne. The Auckland Punch gives insertion gratis to the following advertisement : —" Cakd—Tito Kowaru & Co., Butchers and Drysalters, The Gorge Patea AVest Coast. Families waited on in town or country at surprisingly short notice. A large supply of Cured Constable, Potted Pakeha, and Dried Militiaman, always on hand. N.B.—Sole Agents for Stafford & Co.'s Aboriginal Irritant. Place of business in London, Exeter Hall, Strand. W.C." The following advertisement appears in the Exp'ess, published at Burrowa, New South Wales :—" Matrimonial.— Wanted, by a presentable girl of nineteen years, to give herself and 2,100 sheep away. Applicants must be tolerably good-looking, and neither widowers nor boys. Money, or worldly property of any kind, no consideration. Respectablility ot character and geuial disposition indispensable. No following of cousins desired, and no ' Charleying' with other girls permitted. Applicants should be in time to secure the clip by forwarding, under cover, addressed to the manager of the Express, proposals, accompanied by portraits. The strictest secresy."