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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 914, 16 January 1872, Page 2

Dr Dector and Mr A. D. Dobson left town • fr the Mount Eochfort coalfield yesterday j morning. Their absence is expected to exi tend over a week. It is stated that a considerable saving of j distance between "Westport and the Inangaliua j Landing can be effected by a road communication between the Blackwater and the Landing. By this means the journey would be shortened by 10 to 12 miles. We understand that the formation of tho country is likely to admit of a good dray road, with easy gradients, being cheaply constructed. In our last issue we mentioned that the [ Alpine Company, Lyell, had brought down ( 2130zs 13dwt gold, the result of 14 days' l crushing. We arc now informed that the ; gold when melted turned out 2lloz 16dwts 12grs, but in place of 14 days, the batteries had only been at work 10 days. The above parcel was taken from the quicksilver ripples only, the copper plates not having been sci-aped.] Hale and party, the contractors for delivery of stone, will deliver the first barge load under the new contract to-day. On Nov. Ist, an iron barque, 290 tons register, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Hall and Sons, Eootdee, Aberdeen. The vessel which is classed 100 A at Lloyds, is 130 feet in length ; 25 feet breadth of beam; and 12 feet 6 inches in depth of hold. The barque is named the Hokitika, and has been built for Spence Brothers for the colonial trade. By the steamer Charles Edward on her last trip from Hokitika, no fewer than thirty passengers, chiefly business people, left for Eeefton. Twenty-seven of them landed at Greymouth and proceeded by the Grey Valley to the Inangahua reefs. At a recent meeting of the Excelsior Com- j pany, Lyell, arrangements were concluded with Zala and party to crush the company's stone, the raiding of which will be immediately proceeded with. Scrip in this hitherto neglected company are now quoted at £3.

A criminal information has been laid against T. Sheahan for the unlawful removal of the premises known as the Nelson Hotel, Gladstone street. The case will be heard in the Eesident Magistrate's Court to-morrow.

A meeting of the Warden's Court will be held at Christy's on the 10th proximo, and at Eeef ton on the 12th.

The schooner Three Friends sailed for Brighton on Saturday morning and returned to port yesterday at noon.

Mr T. W. Maude has been gazetted secretary to the Ee s ident Miuister of the Middle Island.

The Mayors of Greymouth, Lyttelton, Timaru, Christchurch, and Kaiopoi have been gazetted Justices of the Peace,

Tho following obitnary notice of the decease of Mr. Alfred Fell, who expired at Greenwich on Nov. 2, is from the Nelson "Evening Mail":—"The deceased gentleman was one of the first body of Nelson

settlers, and arrived here in the Lord Auckland, in, February, 1842. Having acquired a competency, Mr Fell returned to England some fifteen years ago, but without losing interest in Nelson, towards which he always retained warm feelings of regard. His death will be regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance." A second deposit of £2O a side in the mutch between Pat. Twohill and Vaughan is to be made at the Brian Bora Hotel on Monday nhyht next. Both men are in active training, the former being under the care of Charles Buckley, while Vaughan has the services of Jemmy the Ranger. The final deposit of £2O a side is to be made on the following Monday, making, when completed, £SO each.—"Grey Argus," Jan. 13. A small parcel of gold, weighing about lOoz, from the Upper Buller district, was recently presented for sale at one of the

banks in Nelson, when certain appearances led to a suspicion that it was notall genuine, and it was consequently handed to Mr Tatton to be tested, the result being that a little over half an ounce of spurious metal was discovered. The packer who brought the gold to town having obtained it in small quantities, is unable to say from whom he obtained the adulterated portion.—lbid. The great prostration of the Prince of Wtiles is duo to hcemoeraga from ulcers in tie intestines, one of which, it is feared, may be perforated. In that case he would die suddenly by collapse, like Earl Chesterfield. —lbid.

James Fitzsimmonds, late of the Commercial Hotel, Hokitika, has opened business at the Kuranui Hotel, Grahamstown. The sum of £7lB has been collected at the Thames for the relief of the widow and family of the late John Baty.