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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 911, 9 January 1872, Page 2

Up to the hour of going to press the San Fraccisco mail had not arrived in New Zealand. The delay must have been occasioned by some accident—probably to the machinery. The outgoiug mail will leave Auckland on the 25th inst. Mr Charles Broad will hold a Warden's Court at Westport to-morrow. The p.s. Charles Edward left Westport for Nelson early on Saturday morning. The s.s. Kennedy sailed the same evening for Hokitika, and will take her departure from Westport for Nelson to-morrow morn.

The Westport school will re-open on Monday the 22nd instant, when we believe prizes will bo awarded to such pupils as have exhibited satisfactory progress during tho past half-year. There rewards for merit would have been distributed prior to the holidays, but in consequence of there being no local school-committee and the Central Committee having failed to provide prizes none were forthcoming. His Excellency's spoons, says the " Evening l'c st," have turned up at last, and the characters of the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives are cleared. They wee found neatly packed in an old duster, as they were got ready to be brought up from Auckland, the parcel never having been ope.icd. The new manager of the Caledonian is Capt. Richard, who has for some years been working manager of the Golden Crown. A publishing company has been formed to issue a newspaper (bi-weekly) at Coromaudel. The originator and manager is Mr Stott, an old employe on the " Otago Daily Times." Tho residents at the Thames are agitating for a public park. There can be no question, we think, as to the justice of the sentence passed upon Kereopa, and to the desirability that no mistaken clemency should induce the advisers of the Crawn to remit the extreme penalty of tho law. At the trial it was abundantly proved that the prisoner took the principal part in tho murdar of Rev. Mr Volkner, and the only defence that was attempted to beset up was that the prisoner and his followers were fanatically mad, and not in a stato of mind which could render them responsible for their actions. Of course such a defence had no weight in the face of the evidence which showed conclusively that Kereopa's predisposition to acts of atrocity was of permanent character.