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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 857, 5 September 1871, Page 2

The usual monthly meeting of tho Hospital Committee will be held at the Court House this evening at eight o'clock. Up lo going to press the Suez mail, due in Melbourne on Thursday last, had not arrived in Now Zealand. We understand that Mr Walton Pell is the successful tenderer for the conveyance of Mace and Co.'s mnchinory from Westport to Inangahua, and that ho purposes entering upon the up-river traffic with spirit. It is his intention, we believe, to obtain two horse boats for the conveyance of goods and passengers to tho Inangahua, making the trip to the Junction in one day. We need scarcely add that this mode of transit will be found to be a vast improvement upon the hardships entailed by a trip up the Buller along the present frightful track. To travellers visiting the fp-country districts the new route will specially recommend itself as effecting a most important saving of time and money. A slight shock of earthquake was folt at Charleston, on Thursday morning ? last, shortly after 2 o'clock. The Janet Grey and Day Dawn left Charleston on Thursday last, the latter vessel bound for Lyttclton and the former for Nelson, whence she is to bo laid on for the Fijis. The B.s. Alhambra, from Melbourne, is expected at Hokltika on the Bth inst., when she will be despatched for Melbourne direct. We are requested to draw the attention of intending passengers to the necessity of booking on or before the sth instant, in order to secure a passage, as an unusually large number of passengers are booked,owingto the s.s. Gothenburg not having been tendered.at Hokitikaon her last trip. The usual monthly meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade took place yesterday evening.

The steamer Wallabi left Wanganui at 1 a.m. on Sunday, and arrived at Westport at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. She discharged her cargo of cattle and sheep at the South Spit the same aiternodn, and, weather permitting, will sail for Wanganui direct this afternoon;

The glass fell rapidly during the whole of Sunday and a little yesterday, and the weather showed every indication of a gale from the south-west.

The scbooner Canterbury is ballasted and ready to proceed to Lyttelton by the first favorable opportunity.

Hard Extracting.—lt is nearly as impossible to get money out of a miser as it would, be fur a butcher to get mutton chops out of a battering ram. The British policy in India—Protection to native Hindoostry