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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 500, 6 May 1869, Page 3

The value of parsimonious economy received a fitting illustration the other day in Castlemaine. A farmer in the neighbourhood had, for reasons best known to himself, " stopped his paper." The day after he sold a parcel of 500 bushels of wheat to a miller in town for 4s Id per bushel. His chagrin may be conceived when a day or two after he discovered that the market price was 5s Id, a fact which he might have known had he continued to take in the local paper. He had lost L 25 by his economy.

When the Bangitoto was off HoMtika on her last trip from Melbourne, it became known that Thatcher was on board. The West Coast Times then made some remarks as to the " watch affair" being the probable reason, wby he would nnt. land thero. These remarks having been read by Mr Thatcher, he has forwarded to the Times a letter in which he states that such is an erroneous impression, and that he intends returning to the Coast after visiting Auckland and the Thames, believing he will have "as warm a reception as in days of yore."