The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1871.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 769, 28 January 1871, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1871.

In the R.M. Court, yesterday, there were a few civil cases disposed of. Price v. Price, a claim for £ls ss; and Oliver v. Nichols, in which the sum of £9 15s was sought to be recovered. Judgment went for the plaintiff in each case witli costs. Simpson v. Carmody; an action to recover ,£2B 10s Id, the value of goods supplied was addmitted. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiif and Mr Home for the defendant. The latter contended that costs should not be allowed as no application had been made by the plaintiff for the money. The latter gave evidence that he refused to supply more goods until a portion of the old account had been paid, but he was unable to statu that a full statement of accounts had botii furnished, previous to the service of punmions. Mr florae said that, if a full stat<mfnt of account had been rendered, the nmount would have been paid; and ins client would have been saved a difficult. journey from the Lyell. His Worship gave judgment for the plaintiff in the amount i claimed with costs.

Tlio nomination of candidates to represent the Buller District in the General Assembly takes place at tlio Court-honse to-day at noon. The poll, if demanded, wiil late place on Saturday next. Mr Donno had a crowded meeting at the Masonic Hall yesterday evening, when ho addressed the Westport electors. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. • At the close of his address a vote of conadence was accorded to Mr Donne.

An accommodation license was granted by the Resident Magistrate yesterday to James Anderson, for a house situate at Murray Creek, Inangahua. In the Warden's Court yesterday, John Seaton and John Walker applied to hold cattle yards and cottages under tworesidenee areas. The applications were granted. W. Lloyd applied for a residence area at the South Spit, which was objected to by Freeth and Greig. On the application of Mr Pitt, the matter was adjourned until the 31st inst.

Mr Donne will address the electors at Addison's Township, this evening.

Mr O'Conor proceeded to Giles Terrace yesterday, and addressed the electors of that locality at Harrison's store.

Mr Donne addresed the Brighton electors, at Slattery's Hotel, on Thursday evening. Mr Coilison was in the chair, and the room was wed filled. The followingresolution was carried unanimously:— "That this meeting, having heard Mr Donne's address, has every confidence in his ability and fitness to represent the district in the General Assembly, and hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to secure that gentleman's return." A vote of thanks to the chair concluded the business, after which a committee was formed for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution.

The fact of electors betting upon the coining elections will; if found out, deprive them of their vote.

The Eev. Peter Byrne will celebrate mass at Addison's Flat to-morrow.

On Wednesday, the Ist proximo, the Provincial Government offices will be closed in commemoration of the anniversary of the Nelson Province.

On a ,'reeent occasion of an alarm of fire, at Charleston, it was found that the suction hose was quite unfit for use. Meanwhile the community is entirely dependent upon the Hook and Ladder Company, in the event of any conflagration. The water-tanks have been repuddled, and the leakage is no longer perceptible. Prior to the repairs, the water escaped at the rate of nearly 100 gallons per minute. The panorama of the mail route across the Pacific Ocean and the American Continent will be on view, in Westport, oa Monday and Tuesday evenings, at the Masonic Hall.

The result of the Greymouth election was received by telegraph yesterday. The returns were Harrison, 864 ; Buckley, 680. The Eev. Dr Burns, one of the founders of the Otago Province, died at Dunedin, on the 23rd instant, aged seventy-six. The lock-up (says the Melbourne •' Telegraph " of the 9th instant), was last evening no place for quiet, for there were close on eighty inmates. Nearly one half of these were male and female denizens of Eomeo Lane and other places, who had been arrested on charges of vagrancy, keeping brothels, and so forth. They were amusing themselves by keeping up a hideous yelling to a song with the refrain, "We're just as happy as a big sunflower." Possibly their felicitous feelings may give way to less pleasant ones when taken before the magistrates this morning. It is notified, by the Telegraph Commissioner, that on and after Ist February, 1871, Australian steamers will be reported the same as inter-provincial ones ; and only steamers carrying the English mails will be telegraphed to all ports. The "Echo" is informed on the best authority that there is almost au absolute certainty that Mr D. Eeid will have an overpowering majority of votes in Dunedin, at the election for the Superintendency. From Queenstown we learn that reports have been received there of the discovery of a rich quartz reef at the foot of Mount Earnslaw.

We notice an announcement of the death at Sydney, on the 31st December, of Mr Alexander Kerr, late manager of the Wellington, and formerly of the Auckland branch of the Hnion Bank of Australia. Mr Kerr was one of the oldest New Zealand colonists, having come out with the first band of settlers to Nelson in the Fifeshire, arriving in the early part of 1842.

Te Kooti is once more killed in anticipation. It will be remembered that Topia declared he would pursue him "even into the sea," but instead of doing so, he gave up the pursuit and returned home. Then Eopata, like the Macpherson who " swore a fearful oath against the clan Mactavish," got into an " awful " rage because Te Kooti attacked his settlement at Tologa Bay, and started in search of him, vowing he would not return without the rebel, dead or alive. Some weeks afterwards, however, he came slinking back empty-handed, his men starving and foot sore. Wow we ave again informed of his having started in search of Te Kooti, and we are told that he " is vtry sanguine of success, as he is guided by some of Te Kooti's people." What necessity there is for guides when the preceding sentence states where Te Kooti is, and when we remember that his whereabouts have been industriously made known for months past, whenever he has changed his place of abode, we do not exactly see. An Auckland- journal says:—A. Lewin, who for the last two years has run with great success at the Thames Christmas sports, challenges P. Towhill to compete for the championship of New Zealand for XIOO.

Private letters received in Auckland state that Bishop Viard, of Wellington, while travelling on the Continent of Europe, was taken prisoner by the Prussians as a spy. At the time of the departure of the mail he was still in prison.

A midwife named Waterhouso has been arrested in Dunedin on a charge of manslaughter.