CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 942, 12 March 1872, Page 2

CHARLESTON.

(from our own The schooner Three Friends arrived in Constant "Bay, from Westport, on Sunday forenoon, discharged, and sailed again in Monday morning's tide. The schooner Jupiter, which has been ly". ing in Constant Bay for six or seven days, attempted to leave on Sunday forenoon, but was Enable to do so ; ; she struck against the rock and was obliged to return, having sustained some slight damage. She got out all right on Monday mornins;. The first of the institute entertainments for the season took place on Monday evening before a crowded audience. Mr Gilespie occupied the chair. The various performers acquitted themselves in a highly creditable manner, and the style in which the different pieces were rendered "and received foretold another prosperous season for those really commendable entertainments which have been hitherto so successful, and which has prov d a source of recreation and pleasure to the Charleston public. The advantages derived from those entertainments are manifold both to the performers and the audience : the former they assist in giving confidence to appear in graver and perhaps more important assemblages, whilst the latter benefit in having provided for them a weekly source of agreeable ana instructive series of entertainments. The organisers and managing committee of the entertainments deserve thanks for the part they take. The Bishop of Nelson concluded his lecture on Saturday evening, at the Literary Institute, which was fully equal to the first portion of it, and was equally well received by the numerous audience.

Mr Delaney, the master appointed to conduct the St Patrick's school; having arrived iu Auckland by the last San Francisco mail, and in Charleston on Saturday last, commenced his duties on Monday morning'.