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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 888, 16 November 1871, Page 2

The Committeo appointed to collect subscriptions for races and sports will commence thsir canvass to-day when we trust the result will be such as will enable a gjocl programme to be held during the ensuing holidays. Funds permitting, it is intended, to have two days' racing about the new year in addition to sports.

George Howe Warr died suddenly of disease of the lungs at the Murray Township, Inangahaa, on the 2nd instant. He had been suffering from thia affliction for the last five years, and recently until his death had been in the employ of Henderson and Anderson, storekeepers. Deceased was a single man, aged 34 to 3ft years, and a native of Preston Bissett. Bucks.

An enquiry was held at Eeefton on Nov. 7th into the circumstances attending the death of James Hodge. The parties who witnessed the sad event were Alexander Ro3s, Robert Kennedy, Frank Westfield, and Thomas Cato. Ross stated that he felled the tree, which was not more than sis inches through in its thickest part. He shouted to the deceased who had just emerged from his hut, and saw him spring backwards. After the tree had fallen he could not see the deceased, but approached the spot, and found him lying insensible in a hollow piece of ground. He was bleeding from the mouth, nose, and eyes. Witness did not think that the tree struck the deceased, but that he fell in the act of springing away, and in the fall struck his head against a stump of which there were several where he fell. The remaining witnesses furnished a similar account of the accident, and those who sat upon the enquiry gave it as their opinion that the cause of death was accidental, and attributed no blame to Ross. The deceased was a native of St. Agnes, Cornwall.

The A.S.N. Company are advertising in the Sydney papers that they propose to re-establish monthly steam communication between Sydney and the Southern ports of New Zealand. The service is to commence in December. The present Victorian tariff, which operates so injuriously on the intercolonial trade of that colony, cannot but assist in insuring success to the enteprise.

In the Warden's Court on Tuesday protection for eight months was granted to George Lamplough and Jane Cochrane for a claim situate at Shamrock Lead, Addison's. The ground assigned for protection was the want of drainage to enable the ground to be worked, a want which would be ultimately supplied by the construction of Wilson and party's drainage tunnel. A special site for stacking tailings, 120 feet in area, situate at M'Kenzie Creek, Hatter's Terrace, was granted to Peter MTntosh and Archibald Brown, subject to their in no way interfering with the ordinary flow of the creek. An application by Harry Richards for a double area claim of ground, situated between Caledonian and German Terraces, was granted.

An accommodation license has been granted to John Con ley for a house at the head of the Lagoon, Addison's.

The deposit of sand on the beach forming the north-west boundary of Westport has continued satisfactorily for several weeks past, and with every appearance of the improvement being of a permanent character. The spit has extended itself in a northerly direction several hundred yards, and is still trending that way at an average rate of progress of about twenty feet daily. On the north spit alone several acres of beach above high water mark have been formed recently by the deposit of silt carried down the river, and thrown upon this portion of the beach.

The p.s. Charles Edward left Greymouth *ast night, and will sail for Nelson to-day. The steamer Kennedy to6k her departure from the latter port at mid-day yesterday, and will leave Westport for Hokitika this evening.