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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 918, 25 January 1872, Page 2

The s.a. Rangitoto, from Melbourne witl the Suez mail, was due at Hokitika yester day.

Moorn, the Keefton mail contractor, notwithstanding the bad weather on Tuesday, arrived punctually with the mail. It will he despatched for Reefton and Lyell to-morrow, at 7 a.m.

A quarter share in Shiels'e prospecting claim has been disposed of by M. Burns for .£BOO. The purchaser is said to be Mr Kilgour, ot Greymouth. Upwards of twenty passengers, bound for Reefton, left Westport on Tuesday morning by boat. The heavy rain which set iii shortly after their departure, must havo rendered their journey anything but a pleasant one. One of Mr Pell's cargo boats reached Westport the same eveniug by which wc learn that the passengers had only reached the Ohiki.

Two lunatics arc at present in the Westport Gaol pending their being forwarded to the Asylum in Nelson. Their names are James Rcardon and James Faulds ; the former was brought down recently from the Inangahua District; and the latter was recently employed at the Empire Hotel, whore he showed symptoms of insanity. During the previous week a male named Angus Hay and a female named Sarah Featherstoa, who had been committed to gaol for safe custody in consequence of unsound mind, were discharged. A telegram was received in Charleston on Tuesday evening stating that Pat Twohill beat Vaughan for the mile race after a very close contest. Charleston seems to be in a state of foment in consequence of the many departures for the reefs and elsewhere. Propertics of all descriptions are for sale, and, judging from the way things are going on at present, Charleston will shortly ho reduced for a time at least to a thinly populated district.

It is announced in our advertising columns that Mr Lundon, of the Northern Terrace, has reduced the price of the 4lb loaf to a shilling. A very choice selection of English and Colonial jewellery is now on view at Mr Hanson's, bookseller, Gladstone street. In tho Warden's Court on Tuesday the two following cases were heard—Watson v. Kerr, in which tho matter in dispute was the right to a water race at Mohikinui. According to the evidence the plaintiff and the defendant held jointly a certificate of registration. , The contention of the plaintiff was that the defendant had abandoned his interest by absenting himself tor three months. The defendant called a witness named Douglass, who proved that he had been instructed by Kerr to use the water during tho batter's absence, and that he had used it accordingly. Tho Warden gave judgment for the defendant with costs. Suisted v. Colvin, was an action to obtain an order from the Warden to restrain the defendant from interfering with certain ground. Mr Home appcarecVJor the plaintiff, and Mr Pitt defended. The evidence Bhowed that the plaintiff and a butcher named Johnston had jointly erected a slaughter-yard at the South Spit. The slaughter-yard had been held until December last without a business license. In that month the plaintiff took out a license, and now sought that the defendant should be required to move from tho ground, taking away his share of the fencing, timber', &C. Mr Pitt contended that tho defendant had an equitable interest in tho ground notwithstanding the plaintiff's tenure under a business license. Mr Home did not reply,

as ho relied upon the facta given in evidence, and which had not been contradicted. The Warden gave judgment for the plaintiff with costs, and ordered the defendant to desist from further interference. A few applications were also disposed of.