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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 795, 30 March 1871, Page 2

The Bank of New Zealand shipped by the steamer Kennedy, which left yesterday for Hokitika, 111362. 2dwt. 18gr. <jf gold, the export duty upon which amounted to .£139 23. lid. A small escort, arrived yesterday from Charleston, consisting of GOOozs. of gold, forwarded by the Bank of New South Wales for shipment. Charles Brown, who was detained in custody in default of obtaining sureties for his future good behaviour, made his escape from tho Camp-yard, at Charleston, on Tuesday last. The police, after some trouble, captured him near the Back Lead, and yesterday he was conveyed to Westport, and lodged in the gaol. The prisoner, it will be remembered, was recently charged with an assult upon Miss M. Murphy, of Charleston. In the Warden's Court, Westport, on Tuesday the proceedings were limited to the hearing of a few applications. Registration for a head-race, branch-race, dam and tail-race was granted to Frederick Robinson. A double area claim at Middle Terrace, between Caledonia and and German Terraces, was granted to Christian Rasmussen and party, also registration for a tunnel. Thomas Clinton also obtaine* registration for a double area claim at Hatter's, the ground having been worked and abandoned. The application of Armstrong and party with reference to a drainage tunnel at Addison's Flat was postponed until after the question of declaring the locality a wet district is disposed of. The extraordinary telegram recently published to the effect that a portion of New Zealand had been destroyed by fire has received an explanation. It appears that a portion of the mail from England, for New Zealand and Australia was burnt or lost in the Hudson River. Railway accident. The mail steamer for New Zealand was detained 24 hours in consequence of the accident.

We have to acknowledge the receipt, from the Clerk to the Legislative Council, of a copy of the journals of the Council for the session of 1870.

Without wishing to comment upon the many and glaring inaccuracies usually contained in our Charleston contemporary, we must reqnest a more close adherence to the copy when quoting from us. If correctness is impossible, common candour requires that they should prefix a notice that the quotation is as nearly correct as they can give_ it. One of the latest and most striking instances of illiterateness was contained in a letter appearing in the "Herald" of the 29th instant, in which the following was quoted from the " Westport Times " : " The Warden, in view of tho proposed expenditure under the Public Works Scheme, hesipated to grant a prior right to a company which womld thus become possessed of the most valuable water Supply in the district." The Nelson "Mail" states that the Government of New South Wales received a telegram by the late mail, from the Secretary of State, informing it that the English Government had received information of the fitting-up of a filibustering' expedition, which had left America to pick up Australian gold ships. The story is said not to be credited in Melbourne.

The "Press" says:—"The transit of grain from the Selwyn and intermediate stations on the South line, as well as from the Christchurch station, to port, is just now assuming considerable proportions. Special trains laden with grain are arriving from the South daily, with sometimes as many as thirty trucks; and as we are informed that the average contents of each truck is six tuns, such a train is actually drawing ssorae 180 tons of grain. We further learn that as many as seventy-two trucks, representing (say) 432 tons of grain, recently passed through the tunnel in one day. Our Northern visitors are said to view these spectacles with astonishment." The Industrial Commission has been sitting daily for some time, and has collected a mass of information to be laid before the Provincial Council at its next session. The prize firing, North v. South Island, was won by the iorraer, by one point. The English mail via San Francisco will be despatched to Nelson to-day by the steamer" Charles Edward. Letters and newspapers may be posted until 3 p.m. The San Francisco correspondent of the " Brisbane Courier," in speaking of the recent escapo of Mra Telverton from death in the Yosemite Valley, concludes by stating " that the notorious Mrs Kinder, who acted so conspicuous a part some years ago before the criminal Courts in Sydney, with Bertrand with reference to the murder of her husband, is now married to a Dutchman, and is keeping a general store in San Francisco." The best bed tkat can be mado for a dog consists of dry, newly-made deal shavings; a sackful of these may be had for a shilling at almost any carpenter's shop. Tho dog delights in tumbling about in them until he has made a bed to suit himself. Clean wood shavings will clean a dog as well as water, and fleas will never infest dogs that sleep on fresh deal shavings. The turpentine and resin in new pine soon drivo them away.—" Mechanics' Magazine." It is rumoured that the Duke of Edinburgh is to be married to a daugher of tho ex-king of Hanover. A reference to tho

" Almanak de Gotha " shows that there are two Hanoverian princesses—the princess Frederika. just 23 years of age, and the princess Marie, twenty-one—but which of these is destined for the Duke doss not appear.

In Canterbury there are forty miles of railway, and by means of it wheat can bo put into the ship's hold at Id per bushel. The line is being pushed on, and before long will extend as far as Thnaru. The Auckland Provincial Government recently made the cricketers of that city a substantial present in the shape of a handsome iron roller, weighing over 22 cwt. The ushering in of " St, Patrick's Day in the Morning," says the "Independent" was duly observed with becoming honors in Wellington. The Garrison Band turned out and enlivened the town by playing several new airs, and, as if to increase the conviviality of the occasion of doing honor to the patron saint of the green isle, a considerable number of the men belonging to the Virago were on liberty, doing their utmost to evaporate the result of receipts from the paymaster recently placed in their care. It is needless to observe that a good deal of exhilaration was the result. The convivialities of the evening broke out just when " chanticleer his mat in rings," and the last we heard of the festivities proper to the occasion, was the enlivening strains of the Garrison Band wishing all a cordial good morning. In the evening a dinner to celebrate the anniversary of St. Patrick took place at Donnecker's at which J. E. Fitzgerald, Esq., was in the chair. The Government offer a reward of £3OO for the conviction of any person supplying arms and ammunition to rebels.