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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 726, 20 October 1870, Page 3

PUBLIC NOTICE. THE inhabitants of Westport are invited to attend a PUBLIC MEETING, to be held at the Masonic Hall, Westport, on Friday Evening, 21st inßt., at 8 o'clock, to consider the present prospects of the Upper Buller, and to devise means for securing for this port the important and increasing business likely to result from the recent discoveries there. Jno. Corr Bailie and Humphrey E. Rowlands Jno. Munro William Pitt Tonks and Hughes James Powell and Co. E. C. Eeid. MELBOURNE CUP Will be drawn at the EMPIRE HOTEL, WESTPORT, ON SATUEDAY EVENING, 29 INST. 56 Acceptances. Tickets £1 each. First Horse £2B Second do 18 I Third do 10 Sweepstakes will be thrown for on Saturday evening, the 22nd instant, if the list be not previously filled up. Drawing positively to take place on the 29th October. All prizes paid less 5 per cent.

CHALLENGE. ' CHALLENGE any man on the L West Coast, or in New Zealand, for. £SO or upwards, for twelve hours' work, cord wood-splitting, or falling trees. Choice of timber, from oue to six feet in diameter, to be given to the acceptor of the challenge. DENNIS QUIGLEY. Caledonian Terrace, Oct. 18, IS7O ■ ISIAH WILLIAMS, but better ~ known as BILL JONES, late of ddißon's Elat and Giles Terrace, beg to state —in consequence of certain rumors that I had reasons for changing my name —that I received the name of Bill Jones from my mates on Moses Creek, Ovens, Victoria, my own name at that time being considered difficult to pronounce. My reason for publishing this is to challenge any one to say anything against my character. ISIAH WILLIAMS. IXPKESS to the Caledonian, German, Giles, Eochford, Hatters, and Christmas Terraces. W. BISHOP leaves the Times office for the above Terraces every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at All orders carefully attended to.

EOE SALE by PEIVATE TEEATY. ii. prising forty-seven acres, situate at the head of the Lagoon, at the rear of Packers' Point and Bradshaw's Terrace. _ Seven acres are under cultivation, viz.:— Two acres oats, and five acres grass and clover, the whole bounded on three sides by water. Also, a weather-boarded and shingle roofed Cottage, 20ft x 14ft: outbouscs, tools and implements. A Jetty in the Lagoon, 45ft in length. A Bridge across the Lagoon, connecting the house with Packers' Point. The above property offers rare inducements to any party desirous of settling in an improving district. A number of miners are engaged in the immediate vicinity, and no better opening exists in the Buller district for a person desirous of establishing an Hotel or Store. For particulars, apply to the underEDWAED BEADSHAW, THOMAS PENNIALL. Gazette in Bankruptcy. IN THE DISTEICT COtTET OF WESTLAND NOETH. Holden at "Westport. litre JOHN AITCHISON CAEE. NOTICE is hereby given that no Creditors having attended the adjourned first meeting of Creditors, the estate became vested in Eobert Pollock, Esquire, Provisional Trustee, and the day, hour, and place for the Bankrupt to attend and apply for his discharge, is Tuesday, the 15th day of November, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon,at the Court-house, Westport. JOHN AITCHISON CAEE, In person. Westport, Oct. 17,1870.