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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 550, 2 September 1869, Page 2

From a Post Office return we learn that, during the second quarter of the current year, the following were the amounts deposited in the Savings Banks in. the five towns with which the interests of this district are most intimately associated:— ]S T elson £1159 Westport £2102, Charleston £1376,' G-reymouth £8203, Hokitika £3743! The number of depositors at Charleston was 90; at Westport 119. Twenty sevon new accounts were opened at Westport, and a smaller amount was withdrawn during the quarter than at any of the other places. From a return relating to Money Orders we learn that, from "Westport, £6.38 was sent during the quarter to other parts of the Colony, £36 to England, £45 to Scotland, £6 to Ireland, £U2 to Victoria, £l2 to South Australia, £ls to New South Wales, £1 15s to Queensland. It is significant that nothing was sent to Western Australia, and, in a different sense, it is also significant that nothing was sent to Tasmania. The total amount of the remittances forwarded by the medium of the Post Office was £920, while the amount received in Westport, in the same way, was only £lB5. The amounts forwarded from Charleston were £263 to other parts of the Colony, £B3 to England, £l4 to Scotland, £5 to Ireland, £lsl-to Victoria, £6 10s to New South Wales, and £lO in each instance to Queensland and Tasmania. Considering the numbers of the population of the two districts who claim Ireland as their native couutrv, and remembering also the common based upon the couduet of emigrants to America, it is somewhat; surprising and anomalous to find the remittances made-to Ireland so contemptible in amount. Either the Irish residents of this part of the West Coast have left their friends in a " comfortable way of doing," or they are, to an unusual "and exceptional extent, forgetful of kith and kin.