The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 806, 27 April 1871, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.

Pressure on our space compels ua to exclude various local and other items. The application to register the Anderson's Creek Quartz Mining Company under the provisions of the Limited Liability Act, 1865, is announced in another column. The capital of the company is .£9,500, in 1900 five-pound shares. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders will be held at Boss's Hotel, Keefton, on the 18th proximo. The sea continues to make serious inroad upon the beach at the rear of Gladstonestreet. From the site of what remains of the old cemetery to the end of Freemanstreet the beach is cub away, having a face seawards of fully five feet, and at the present rate of encroachment the danger to properties in the vicinity will quickly become as threatening as it was nine months ago. A punt, intended to ply on the river between Westport and the South Spit, arrived from Greymouth, in tow of the steamer Murray, yesterday. For the purpose of conveying horses and cattle across the Buller, this punt will be found especially valuable. Tenders are called by the proprietor, Mr Langdon, for the erection of mooring posts, &c., closing on Saturday. Sittings of the Warden's Court will be held at Eeefton on the 17th, and at Christy's, Inangahua, on the 18th proximo. The third list of subscriptions, collected in the Buller district, in aid of the sufferers by the war in France, is published, The amount of this list is £2B 7s 9d. The Perseverance Company, Collingwood, have suspended operations, pending a further supply of water, and tho first crushing of sixty tons from Culliford's, Wangapeka, yielded but four ounces of amalgam,

Mr A. Reid, one of the members representing Westport in the Nelson Provincial Council, and Mr Wilkie, the Cobden representative, were passengers by the steamer Kennedy. She loft Westport yesterday at 2.30 p.m. for Nelson. It is proposed to hold a race meeting at Westport on the Queen's Birthday, May 24th. The Westport Jockey Club purpose holding a meeting at the Post-office Hotel, this evening, to initiate the movement, and the attendance of all persons interested is requested. The Nelson Provincial Revenue for the ensuing year is estimated at .£BO,OOO, The Governor forwarded a telegram to the Superintendent of Nelson, regretting his inability to visit that port, and stating that he should have touched at Westport. had the tide suited to enter the Buller river in day light. Seven tenders were lodged at the District Engineer's office, yesterday, for the formation of the protective works at the foot of Gladstone-street. The extensive New Zealand flax manufacturing property of Captain Hutton, M.G.S., a member of the late flax commission, and whose numerous lectures on New Zealand flax appeared in an Auckland paper, we perceive is in the market for sale. The Presbyterian Church on Lambton Quay, Wellington, had a narrow escape from destruction on April 9th, through a lighted chandelier falling to the floor, and the consequent ignition of the kerosene. Prompt assistance rendered by the police enabled the man who was lighting up to extinguish the flames. We (Canterbury "Press") regret to hear that an accident occurred to a gentleman, a son of the late Dr. Willis, at Opawa, on Saturday. It appears that Mr Willis, in company with some other gentlemen, was out shooting, when by some means or other the gun of another gentleman of the party accidentally went off, the contents lodging in Mr Willis's right side, carrying away part of the muscles of the right side of the body, the shots lodging extensively in the neighbourhood of the wound. Dr Earle attended at once to the wounds, and Dr Patrick was afterwards called in consultation.

The '* Nord " states that Captain Tackels, a Belgian officer, and a writer on military subjects, has invented a new fire-arm which loads by one movement and discharges twenty-four shots a minute. The ravages made by the great fire in Lyttelton are being rapidly obliterated ; buildings have sprung up on the vacant space more substantial than those they succeeded.

A South Australian paper is responsible for the announcement that Princess Beatrice —her Majesty's youngest daughter, just fourteen years of age—is engaged to the Marquis of Westminster, the wealthiest nobleman in England, said to have an income of a guinea a minute. A Melbourne contemporary says . —" One of the most remarkable instances of good fortune in mining is that of a Sandhurst resident who, some time ago, accepted six shares in a now well-known company, in satisfaction of a doubtful debt of £45. He has just sold one of the six for £3OOO, and at this rate his cheaply acquired interest is worth £IB,OOO. The Chinese have resolved on going in for ironclads. They have sent to England for an expert who thoroughly understands the building of such vessels, the lines of which will be laid down by Mr A. G. Lambert, the marine constructor to the Imperial Government. We notice in the Dunedin papers an announcement of the death of Mr Prank Rutherford, which occurred on the 27th of February last, at Yokohama, Japan, from small-pox. The deceased was for many years connected with Cobb and Co., and was widely known in New Zealand and Victoria. Messrs Hamilton and Gilmer have placed a permanent line of saddle horses between Ahaura and Half-Ounce. The following biographical sketch of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand appears in Walford's " Men of the Time":—"Sir George Feigusson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Bowen, a beneficed clergyman in the north of Ireland, was born in that country in 1821, and was educated at Charter House and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship in 1840, and graduated B.A. as first class in Classics in 1844. In the same year he was elected to a Fellowship of Brasenose College, of which he became tutor. From 1847 to 1851 he held the post of President of the University of Corfu. Whilst holdiag that position, he severely impugned the administration of Lord Seaton, then Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and published one or more pamphlets attacking the policy of his measures. He subsequently published " Ithaca in 1850," Mount Athos, Thessaly, and Epirus," &c, whilst holding the office of Chief Secretary to the Governor of the lonian Islands between 1854 and his retirement in 1859. He is also understood to be the author of " Murray's Handbook of Greece." Sir George Bowen, who is an accomplished modern Greek scholar, and is married to a princess of Greek birth, was appointed in 1859 Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the new colony of Queensland." The result of the election to fill the vacancy of Superintendent of Wellington, caused by the retirement of Dr. Featherstone, was the return of Mr Fitzherbort by a large majority. The numbers were: Fitzherbert, 669; Finnimore, 307; Anderson, 15.