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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 862, 16 September 1871, Page 2

The north beach is now undergoing a rapid change for the bettor. On Thursday at low water a bank was distinctly visible extending from the point of the north spit to aomo distance ; but yesterday the change was most marked, the deposit of sand having bocome sufficiently great to extend the line of beach at low water fully 200 yards further seawards. Tho residents ill the vicinity, and indeed the entire community are overjoyed at their sudden and most unexpected improvement. The beach promises to make with even greater rapidity than it disappeared; and although its so doing cannot repair the mischief already incurred, it will relieve tho anxiety that has been felt for the past fifteen months with respect to property situate in the vicinity of the beach. The barque Kate Conley, from Melbourne, William Wado, master, arrived in port yesterday morning, being towed across the bar by tho p.a. Dispatch. Her agents are Messrs

Bailie and Humphrey, and she brings a cargo of 270 tons of general merchandise. This splendid craft made the run from land to land in five and a half days, arriving off the Buller on the Bth, but there met with ununfavourable weather. The master reports having left Port Phillip Heads on Sept. 1, at 4 p.m., with a fresh north-westerly wind, which veered round the same night to southwest. On the 2nd cleared Kent's Group at noon with the wind blowing hard; thence had a succession of fresh W.S.W. and S. winds, and unsettled weather, with a high, confused sea, the vessol being under water to leeward most of the passage. Arrived off the Buller on the noon of the Bth, making to the southward of the steeples with a strong northerly gale and dinse rain. The run from land to land occupied five and a half days, and six and a half days trom Rort Phillip. From that time until towed in by the p.s. Dispatch was cruising outside, the barometer being low, ranging 29.45. Came to an anchor in the roadstead on on the 12th, and entered the river on the 15th with a smooth bar and plenty of water. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday, John Rafferty was cliarged upon the ii'formation of Mary Daniels with threatening behaviour towards her, and the informant asked that he be bound over to keep the poaco. The Bench did not deem the evidence sufficiently strong to justify tho defendant being called upon to find sureties, and, after cautioning Rafferty, dismissed the information, and ordered that each party pay their own costs. Sykes v. John Gardner was an action calling upon the defendant to show cause that he had failed to pay a judgment debt of £3 4s 3d, due by him to the plaintiff. The defendant objected to the service of the summons, as his name was Edward Gardner. His Worship amended the summons, and had the defendant sworn. The latter admitted having within the past month, earned £23, in one week cloar of all expenses as his fifth share of the contract for launc! ing the schooner Canterbury. He stated that he had no money, having discharged liabilities incurred prior to Sykes's. His Worship ordered the payment of £2 within seven days, and the balance in £1 weekly instalments. In default of any payment the defendant to be imprisoned for three weeks. In Can: v. Mahuika, claim for £2 10s ; and Daniels v. Rafferty, claim for 5s ; plaintiffs obtained judgment by default in the amounts claimed and costs.

At tho Supreme Court, Hokitika, on Tuesday, before his Honor Judge Richmond, de Loree, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour, for burglary at Ross; and, on Wednesday, Nicholas Cameron, for stealing at Half-ounce a canvas bag, containing .£lO, the property of Charles Roach, was sentenced to four years' hard lub-ur ; and Isaac Levy, convicted of forgery, received eight years' penal servitude. The p.s. Dispatch left Greymouth for Westport on Thursday morning for the purpose of towing in the barque Kate Conley. She entered the Buller river the same evening, and the following morning towed out the schooner Canterbury for Lyttelton and brought in the Kate Conley. The Dispatch sailed for Greymouth the same tide. The steamer Kennedy has been detained at Hokitika several days, having arrived there from Westport on Friday, the Bth instant, in consequence of the state of the channel. For the same reason the p.s. Lyttelton has discharged the cargo, transhipped at Greymouth ex Charles Edward, for Hokitika, which will probably go forward by the following trip of the Charles Edward. In consequence of injury sustained by getting foul of the anchor of. the schooner Canterbury, the Lyttelton will proceed to Nelson to-day. The schooner Three Friends left the port yesterday morning, bound for Charleston. The s.s. Wallabi arrived here from Wanganui on Thursday evening, having left that port at 4.35 p.m. on the Bth instant. She encountered rough weather on the passage up, sheltering at the Sandspit. The larger portion of her sheep and cattle wore landed at Westport, and she procee led with the balance to Greymouth last night. Fourteen head of cattle were lost on the passage from Wanganui.