The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1871.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 829, 24 June 1871, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1871.

The outgoing San Pranoisco mail will be despatched from Nelson on the loth proximo.

Up to the hour of going to press there was no sign of the European mail via San Francisco, due at Auckland on Thursday last.

Shipments of gold were made by the Union Bank of Australia and the Bank of New Zealand, to Hokitika by the p.s. Charles Edward on Thursday last. The former forwarded 1 ISOoz 12dwt ogrs and the latter 7570zs Idwt, the export duty upon both parcels amounting to £242 3s 2d. On Monday last, at Reefton, a share in No. 1, south; Shields line of reef, changed hands at .£3OO.

The following items of intelligence reach us from Inangahua. Several cattledealers arrived oa Monday, at Reefton, from Nelson, and report considerable excitement owing to Yaluable discoveries at the Mangles river, a tributary of the Buller. Some miners there are reported to have washed out 16oz of coarse gold from a single tin dishful of dirt, taken from the bed of the river. Newton and party on Kelly's line of reef have completed their tramway and shoot. The work has been carried out in a most creditable and workmanlike manner as also with remarkable promptitude. They expect to commence crushing at the Murray Creek Cement Co's battery in three weeks. Kelly and party aro busily engaged raising stone, which exhibits considerable improvement in quality Bince their trial crashing The crushing plant will be got on the ground with as little delay as possible. A small rush has taken place to some ground distant two miles from Hughes' accomodation house, at the Junction of Coal Creek and tho Buller, owing to Neil M'Lean and party having found payable prospects. Aboat a dozen men were on the ground when our informant passed. In the Warden's Court, yesterday, James Nasmyth, made application for a double area of ground at Eochfort Terrace. The applicant stated that he was going to put a tunnel inte the terrace for the purpose of prospecting for a new lead. The application was refused and applicant instructed to apply anew for a frontage claim. In the case of Norman M'Leod v. William Collins, the plaintiff sought to recovor £2O for dam-

age alleged to have been caused by the defendant having backed tailings upon the complainant's dam and boxes. The plaint set forth that the obstruction was caused by a log which the defendant had caused to be erected. In his evidence the complainant stated that the grievance consisted in the defendant persisting in continuing to keep the log across the creek. It appeared that M'Leod and Collins hud previously been dividing mates, and that the log in dispute had been placed there by them both when working together. The evidence of the complainant not bearing out the cause of complaint, he was non-suited with costs.

His Honour Mr Justice Ward held a sitting in chambers of the District Court of Westland North yesterday. The case of M'Grath and party v. Ward and party, adjourned from Charleston, was to have been argued, but the counsel for the defendants declined to accede to the course proposed, namely—that a case should be stated by Mr Warden Broad, and argued in Westport. The Court then adjourned. A bankruptcy sitting will be held to-day. The boot found on the limb cast upon the beach near Brighton, and which had been forwarded to Greymouth for identification was returned by the steamer Kennedy. A report has been also received, from which it appears that Walsh, a bootmaker at Paroa, identified the boot as one of a pair made by him to the order of the deceased Daniel Enright, who met with his death by drowning in the Grey river. George Sutherland, John Sheedy, and four others returned to Brighton on Monday last from their search for O'Hagan. They struck the beach some miles to the south of Fox's river, but were, of course, unable to find any trace of the deceased. On reaching Brighton they learned with regret his melancholy end, and expressed sorrow that they were unable to pay a last tribute to his memory by attending at the funeral.

The " Ballarat Evening Mail " says : " A petition to his Excellency the Governor by Coleman, Cawson, and Hanna, the three men convicted for salting the Bevival Beef, has been prepared, and is to be presented by Mr W. C. Smith, M.L. A. The men have a considerable period to serve yet. The grounds of petition are. that the reef turned out well subsequently to the trial, and that, had a proper trial crushing been made previous to the examination of the prisoners, the result would have been the same."

The Timaru " Herald/' in a recent article says:—Without Mr Vogel the Government would not stand a day, as it is generally admitted that on him alone is focussed almost the entire power pertaining to the Cabinet. The feeling abroad is that a weak government, with Mr Vogel for a master mind, is antagonistic to the true interests of the colony, and the country looks for a Ministry the component parts of which should be men of broad and enlightened views, and not subservient to the will of one man. Such a Ministry, if we mistake not, we shall shortly obtain.