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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1126, 21 November 1873, Page 2

A report has been industriously circulate 1 by some unscrupulous member or thj O'Conorite party that two letters written on his behalf have boon refused insertion in our Open Column. We flatly contradict the assertion. Every letter sent in for free publication lias appeared in print. The statement is one of the many damnable inventions whereby the more rabid of the O'Conorite party seek to bolster up a ba 1 cause. It is not likely that any intelligently educated members of the party would stoop to write a word in Eugene O'Conor's favor, howsoever ranch they may think it expedient to talk in his behalf.

Look out for the beacon firo! To-nigh, a ruddy blaze will tint the lift at the foot; of the Terraces. Messrs M'Leod am'. O 'gant discoverers of the "Black Diamond" coal reef at Deadmau's Creek, in order to give tlie public an idea of the close contiguity of the mine to Westport, intend to light up a bonfire one hundred feet above the level of the mine. Latest news therefrom says the seam has been opened up on the face to twenty-five feet, and that the men now driving in find the coal getting more solid every foot they go. The shareholders in the Albion Company are to be congratulated that the first trip of their big boat to the Ngakawhau ha. proved successful, ;md that by dint of careful pilotage, a free tide, and fresh in the ere'k, she went in and out safely, and has brought her first load of coal into the Buller. '1 he Ooomerang came in at 10.3 ) ou Tuesday morning, after just thirty hou;s absence from the Boiler. She transhirp -d her cargo—about 58 tons —into the schooner Pearl, and left again on Wednesday for the Ngakawhau, where she will again load and proceed to Nelson. A deputation of townsmen waited on Mr Blackett on Wednesday to urge that, as a preliminary to the river protective works, some additional stone deposit should be made at Nelson street groin, which has so widl stood all floods and protected the adjoining portion of the river bank. The opinions of the deputation coincided with Mr Blackett's and he promised that the work should be effected.

Several miners during the past week have gone up to the Mokihinui, intending to take up creek claims. At the present season there is always a chance at the Mokihinui of some good finds of heavy gold on ground unworkable during the wet season. There is a report that good ground Las been struck by one or more parties near the river of late, and that others are out prospecting with a very good chance of success. Rumors vague and uncertain also coine to hand of prospecting parties having of late made some good discoveries in the neighborhood of the Karame;i, but the particulars as to locality are kept a profound secret. The same kind of news also come from up Glass-eye Creek, a tributary of the Little Wanganui. The only definite information given is that " something good may be expected about Christmas time." A very proper season for good things, auriferous or otherwise.

The Examiner of the Bth instant, says : " Evil be to him who evil thinks." —A correspondent of a contemporary, who signs himself "Mo Cuit," insinuates that the Examiner was purposely delivered late in Wakapuaka on Monday morning because it contained an advertisement by Mr O'Conor calling a meeting in the Hillside schoolhouse lor that evening. The suggestion is contemptible. The Examiner was late on that morning because the extra work occasioned by Dr Williams's exhaustive report to the Board of Works on the conditions of health and the sanitary state of the city, was more than our staff of compositors could overtake within the usual h ■urs. To bring out that report, the printers of this establishment worked for twenty-two consecutive hours. We may be excused, therefore, if the Examiner was a couple of boars late on that particular morning, without being exposed to the suspicion of having attempted to prevent full publicity being given to the notice of Mr O'Conor's meeting.

In the J6IOOO sweepstake on the Melbourne Cup, drawn at the Empire Hotel, Hokitika, the chief prize of was drawn by W. Toiuset and Butler of the Arahura. The former is in the employ of Mr Butler, and took a share in partnership with Mrs Butler, we understand. The second prize of ±'lso, was taken by George White, a publican, we believe, at Boss ; and the third, of £IOO, w»s drawn by Mr A. Benjamin, of Revell street.

Refering to Nelson election matters the Q-reymouth Star says:—Messrs Giles and Whitefoord, two of the Resident Magistrates on the West. Coast, have long been beloved by Mr O'Conor! It is not forgotti n by Nelson Coast residents that Dr Giles had onee in his official capacity to fine the now worthy aspirant to the Superintendental chair, in the sum of five pounds, for breaking a bottle over the head of a Mr Cooper, agent for the Union Bank at Westport. A man named Charles Bernard was accused at the Greymouth Resident Magistrates Court on Wednesday last with having stolen into the bedroom of a married woman at the Hibernian Hotel, about 4 a.m. in the morning, and taken from under her head .£9 13s in money. Tho complainant's evidence was not corroborated, and the money was not found on the accused. The case was dismissed, the Bench remarking that it was one which afforded a peculiar illustration of what may happen to a man who wanders at early dawn in search of brandy and joda.