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

The steamer Charles Edward came in from Greymoiith about ten o'clock last night, bringing several passengers. She left again for Nelson about midnight. Craddock's passenger-boat is again advertised for a trip to the Inangahua district. She will start to-morrow morning early. We hope she will mate as prosperous a trip this time as before, and accomplish it as quickly. It is stated that the Son Mr Fox and party will visit, on their way down the coast, the glacier at Mount Cook, called, we believe by Mr Hochstetter, out of compliment to his royal master, the FrancisJoseph Glacier. We hear that Why Not will not be run at the forthcoming races, having received serious injuries at Charleston, whether accidentally or designedly we have not boon able to ascertain. By recent Gazette we see that Samuel Munckley South, Esq., has been appointed Crown Prosecutor and Sheriff for Westland County. A petition, most numerously signfd, for more frequent postal communication beGreymouth and Reefton, has been sent from the former place to the PostmasterGeneral, Wellington. Inspector Hickson, of Greymoutb, at a late Licensing Court, said that he thought it would be much better for the "town if one half of the public h6uses were shut up. Those connected with the celebrated Caledonian mine seem to turn everything to account. The latest news from that district states that the tailings fetched from twenty to thirty shillings per ton at auction. The schooner Maid of Erin arrived yesterday about mid-day from Melbourne, with miscellaneous cargo. We shall publish the manifest in to-morrow's issue. In a long an 1 sparkling leader the " Grey Argus" shows up the Nelson press, concerning the celebrated ",£6000," which is now sought to be used for the purpose of a " Special settlement in the Central Buller." We give the conclusion of this long article • " But, if the truth were told, the Nelson people, through simple greed of getting some of this money Nelsumvards, choose t > ignore the paramount claims of a district the development of which will make their province one of the first in the colony, and even such men as Mr Sh.'p'.iard and his friendly scribe [Editor of the "Colonist"], ignorant of the district, and slow to appreciate its deserts, follow the proclivities of the bulk of the population. This bit of special pleading about special settlements is un unhappy illustration of the length to which Nelson rulers and writers will go when they are hard pressed for an excuse for their actions. It is utterly inconsistent with what has been written before> and is altogether inconsistent with the facts."