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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 691, 30 July 1870, Page 3

rESTKJiiX and CHARLESTON TELEGEAPH LINE OE COACHES Will leave the Empire Hotel for Charleston as follows :—■ This day Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Thursday , Eriday Saturday 2.30 p.m. 5.30 am. 6.15 a.m. 7.0 a.m. 7.45 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 9.15 a.m. JAMES SIMPSON, Empire Hotel. LECTUEE. ~E. JAMES GRAHAM will deJ_ liver a LECTURE at the MASONIC HALL, on SATUBDAY EVENING NEXT. Subject : —" Ups and Downs of a Gold Digger"—Twenty years experience. Synopsis op Lecture. 1. Seasons for my appearance before you this evening as a lecturer. 2. Eirst discovery of gold in Australia, and some notes on the discoverer. 3. The license system and its results. 4. The lucky finder, and the use he made of it. 5. The political opinions of the mining community in 'si. 6. A conspiracy to cause a rush, and its consequences to Queensland. 7. Lost in the bush, or shipwrecked on dry land. 8. Six months' life among the population of a large goldfleld. 9. The political stump orator of Victoria in '6l. 10. The rush to Bruce Bay, its cause, and disastrous consequences. Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock bv Mr W. Pitt.

EDUCATION BATE. X the "Education Act, 1863," the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the annual Rate imposed by the said Act upon all householders residing within the Educational District of Westport, will be levied on Tuesday, the 2nd day of August, and that the same will be received by me at the Court-house, Westport, between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m. on that day. The aforesaid Act requires that " every householder in said Educational District shall pay annually twenty shillings, and a further sum of five shillings for every child of such householder between the ages of five and fourteen years; Provided always, that no person shall be liable to pay for more than four (4) children, nor for any child residing more than three miles from any school established under this Act; nor for any child attending any school not established under this Act, in respect to whom such persons shall produce to the Collector a certificate signed by the teacher of such school, showing that such child has attended during the three months previous to the levying of the rate." W. A. KIELT, (Sergeant of Police,) Collector. Police Station, Westport, 23rd July, 1870. NOTICE. IHE protection to Quartz Claims at Irishman's Creek, Lyeil, will be continued until 31st August upon the same terms as notified by advertisement on the 28th April last. JOSEPH GILES, Warden. Westport, 30th July, 1870. W.MOR L E Y , 1 . SHAREBROKEE, AND MINING AND COMMISSION, AGENT, Westport asj> Ltell. F. W. M. has made arrangements for a weekly overland communication between the above places. Address: Draghicavich's Victoria Hotel. POUND, WATCH —Owner can have L. same on application at this office, furi nishing description of the article, and paying expenses.