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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 816, 25 May 1871, Page 2

The following are the weights for the Buller Handicap, declared yesterday evening.—Patch, 9st 4lbsj Supple Jack, Bst lOIbs; Polly, 7st 101b; Gipsy, 7st7lb; Why Not, 7st 41b. Owing to the detention of the coasting steamers the Eevising Officer has postponed the sitting of his court at Westport until to-morrow. The Resident Magistrate's Court will sit at ten o'clock to-morrow morning. We are requested to make tho following correction in our report of Mr Sheahan's remarks at the Municipal meeting on Friday evening last: —The Official expenditure at Hokitika in connection with the municipality should read £I2OO, and at Greymouth £BOO. The item of £3OO for legal expenses at the latter town, should have included printing, fuel, and miscellaneous items. The report of certain proceedings in the Nelson Provincial Council in connection with Mr O'Conor and Mr Donne, which appeared in our issue of Tuesday last, and was published in the Charleston paper the following day, has called forth some very full flavoured language from our contemporary. The matter was undeserving of notice after Mr O'Conor's ready admission that reference to the placards had betn inadvertently omitted from his remarks in the Council. It followed, as a matter of course, that the report, so far as these two lines were concerned, which appeared in the Westpobt Times was incorrect. But Mr O'Conor, when the matter was brought forward by Mr Donne, maintained that the omission from his speech had been entirely unintentional, and that he was quite prepared to prove the truth of the statement. The matter admits of no difficulty. It is a well-known fact that such bills were printed and circulated on Mr Donne's behalf at Addison's Flat. Mr Donne is himself cognizant of the fact, and so is, or ought to be, the present proprietor of the " Charleston Herald." As a culminating piece of assurance, however, Mr Donne attempts to lay the onus of having caused this "damaging placard" to be published upon Mr O'Conor. Mr Donne is reported to have said in the Council:—'-He had heard some time ago that a particular placard had been exhibited by Mr O'Conor, but he had never seen the placard, had nothing to do with it, and believed that its circulation had a damaging effect on his election." Dr Giles arrived at Reefton on the evening of Tuesday, the 16th instant, accompanied by constable Temperly. His Worships held courts on Wednesday and Thursday, and got through several warden's court cases, and a large number of applications for leases, water-races, &c. In the case of Burns v. Kelly, being a claim by the plaintiff to have his name inserted in the certificate of registration of a quartz claim, assessors were appointed and judgment given for the defendant with costs. Mr Shapter defended. Our Eeefton correspondent, writing under date May 20th says:—Goods were delivered in Reefton on Monday and Tuesday from Greyraouth via the Little GreySaddle, on the former day at the rate of i'2o a ton, or four pounds less than by the Buller route, on the latter day and to a different storekeeper at =£lß a ton, or seven pounds less than the present freight via Westport. Publicity should be given to these facts, so that if possible the parties interested may find a remedy, or Westport, after bearing the cost and anxiety of opening tho Murray Creek Reefs, will find herself completely excluded from her fair share of the profits, when, as will soon be the case, the reefs begin to yield returns."