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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 946, 16 March 1872, Page 2

We hear that if it were possible to procure them, twenty boats could be put on this river for the reefs, as there is plenty of oargo waiting the means of transit. Efforts have been made to get suitable boats, but without avail. The steamer Charles Edward arrived this morning, and took the bar at dead low water. She bring 3 a general ca>g&, sheep, &o. There were some forty passengers on their way to Greyrnouth races. The Charles Edward will leave Westport to-night or early to-morrow morning. The ketch Standard, which left Westport yesterday morning about, two o'clock, arrived in Constant Bay on the afternoon of the same day.

The following are the latest Australian items come to hand by the steamer Claud Hamilton:—Messrs Yogel and Webb have had another interview with Mr Duffy at Melbourne, to whom they submitted modified proposals regarding the mail service, which are now under consideration. —Mr McCullock has resigned his seat in the Victorian Assembly, and is going to England.—Mr Trollope is on a visit to Western Australia.—Judge Macoboy is dead ; Mr Dunn, it is said, will succeed him.—A man has been murdered at Daylesford by a relative named Wilkie, who has been committed for trial. Ii binson was killed by Taylor in a pugilistic encounter near Sandhurst oi_ Sunday, March 3.—A man named Johnstone attempted to kill himself and wife at Sandridge. From Sydney we learn that one of the Newcastle companies has reduced the price of coals to 7s per ton; that a lode of tin ore, six feet wide, has been struck near Cope's Creek ; that Irvine, a mining speculator from Tambaroora, is missing, and it is suspected that he has met with foul play. By recent intelligence from Adelaide we learn that the Omeo steamed up the Roper River sixty miles, and was towed forty miles further.

The following is the list of cabin passengers by the ship England, which left London Dec. 8, and arrived in Wellington on Monday last with small pox raging on board—Mr J. A. A. Magrath, Mr James Badland, Dr J. T. Leigh; and 82 emigrants.

A "Gazette" of March 1, states—"His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the Vaccination Act, 1871, to appoint the Provincial Hospital, Nelson, as a place at which a supply of pure vaccine lymph shall be kept for the purpose of furnishing on application and without payment, to Public Vaccinators and to legally qualified Medical Practitioners, such reasonable quantities of such matter as by any such Vaccinators or Practitioners may be required." We dive the following lucid " opinion" from a northern contemporary for the benefit of all our readers whom it may concern : —Of course when we say that we do not attach much importance to the rumor of impending war between England and America, we must admit that we have the merest conjectures to guide us in coming to that opinion; but, nevertheless, we are willing to admit, though it be but the merest conjecture, that we do not apprehend any war between England and America, although one of our morning contemporaries has aided the glory of capital letters to the telegraphic announcement that, &c, &c.