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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 848, 10 August 1871, Page 2

The Inangahua Courts are adjourned owing to the unsettled weather. A sitting of the Warden's Court will be held at Roofton on tho 18th, and at Inangahua Junction ou the 19th inst. A sample of tho coal recently obtained from Coal Creek will be shortly forwarded to tho GoTernmont laboratory at Wellington for analysis. The European mail, via Stiez, was duo in Melbourne on the 3rd inst., and is hourly expected in New Zealand. Tho s.s. Claud Hamilton arrived at Hokitika yesterday evening with the mail, but too late to bo tendered. It is probable that the nows will not be received until this evening. Wall and party, of Addison's Flat, invito tenders for driving a tunnel of about 1000 ft. on the claim. Tenders must be sent in before Saturday, the 12th inst. The result of tho latest crushing from the Perseverance Quartz Mining Co. shows 7d\vts to tho ton, or a trifle over tho working expenses of tho mine. The result is unsatisfactory. The schooner Canterbury, from Lyttclton, whilst attempting to sail into tho harbour with a fair wind yesterday afternoon, stuck on the bar, but soon bumped over into tho channel. O wnl S to her losing way the vessel canted in tho wrong direction, and was eventually stranded about half a mile to tho westward of the flagstaff.- It was intended to land a portion of her cargo last night at low water. Wo iearn that the vessel was drawing nine feot, but, owing to tho signalman mistaking No. 9 for No. 8, ho signalled tho vessel to come in, which led"to the disaster. A headstono of chaste design was erected yesterday by the brethren of tho Wostport and Charleston Lodgos M. TJ. over the mortal remains of John Lecco, Tho deceased, a mueh-rospected member of that order, met his death by drowning last summer whilst bathing in the surf. Tho fencing, which also exhibits very pretty workmanship, is of totara, and was constructed by Mr John Etevcnaux, of Westport. It appears that a subscriber at the Caledonian Terrace has taken umbrage in conso. quence of tho fullest publicity not having been given to tho grant of somo registration by the Wardon in which ho is interested. We can only state that it has not been customary to insert reports of orduaary applications, in consequence of their being void of any general interest. It may bo of importance to an applicant that ho has obtained permission to raise tho breast of his dam so as to acquire an additional water supply, but such fact is not of sufficient moment to interest general readers. By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that the anniversary of the Loyal Westport Lodge will bo celebrated by a ball at the Odd-Fellows' Hall, Gladstone strcofc, on Tuesday, September 12th. We regret to learn that Mr F. Courtney, the Rceftbn mail contractor, has been unable to reach town owing to indisposition, and is at present at the Blackwater. The mail, &c, wero brought on by Mr Simpson, who arrived at 9 o'clock yesterday evening. It will be remerahored that a divorce case was recently heard in Nelson, in which James Thomas was the petitioner, Emily Thomas the respondent, and Elijah Blythell the corespondent. She o-ise has since been before the Judges in Wellington, when the Court decided that tho petitioner was entitled to a decree of dissolution, the co-respondent paying costs. The moving for the decree to be made absolute to bo at the next sitting of the Coiart to be held in three months. tJold is said to exist in the upper branches of the Waikouaiti river in sufficient quantities to remunerate the patient and industrious miner. For some years a limited population has been engaged mining in that locality. The folio wing alteration lias been made in the regulations regarding the posting of letters .—Clause 31 —If a letter be posted wholly unpaid, the letter wrust be detained and dealt with according to rule 153. If a letter addressed to any place within the colony be not sufficiently pfopaid with postage stamps, but nevertheless bear a postage stamp of the value of one penny, the letter must be

forwarded chuvged with double the amount of the deficient postage. If a letter id liable to more than one rate of postage, «nd addressed to any place in tlio United .Kingdom, the colonies of Now South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, bo prepaid with one rate at least, tho letter must be forwarded charged with tlio defioioncy and an amount equal to one rato a3 a fmo; but a -letter addressed to any othor colony or foreign country, if not fully prepaid, must be detained aud dealt with according to rule 153.