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The Westport Times. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874.

We have been requested to state that the time of closing the San Francisco mail has been extended to the 11th instant at Nelson, consequently letters posted before 11 a.m.. to-day, tho 10th instant, will be in time as tho Kennedy will leave here early this afternoon.

Correspondence for the United Kingdom (via Suez and Brindisi) will be forwarded by every opportunity to Nelson and Hokitika until the 15th inst.

The Secretary of the Westport School Committee has received intimation from Mr Inspector Hodgson that the Central Board has granted £SO per annum as salary for monitor in the Westport Schooh and that a cheque for £3B has been placed to the credit of the Local Board to cover the balance of contract money for erection of a new class room ; ,£23, and £ls for price of necessary school fittings. In reference to an item of .£3 3s, received from the St. John's Church Bazaar Committee, as rent of schoolroom, and expended by the School Committee for prizes, Mr Hodgson has intimated his entire approval of the expenditure. _ 1 wusua suo-enumerators tor the coastal districts have now all received their supplies of necessary documents, and have received instructions to at once commence distributing forms to bo filled in by housekeepers. Mr E. Labatt has been appointed to collect the necessary data in Westport, vice Constable Maloney. A special meeting of the Coal and Railway Committee was held on Saturday evening in consequence of a telegram received from Mr Fisher, M.P.C,, intimating that Messrs Vogel and Eichardson were expected at Nelson on Tuesday. After brief discussion the Secretary was instructed to telegraph to Mr Fisher as follows: — " The Coal and Railway Committee request you and Mr Shaptov to form deputation, with power to add to your number, and interview Messrs Vogel and Richardson an cut railway, protective, and road works. Invite them also to Westport." James Simpson, late coach proprietor, has been gazetted as a bankrupt, and the first meeting of creditors is appointed for Friday next, at the Court House, Charleston. The session of the Provincial Council has been prorogued, and the Country members remaining in Nelson are now waiting to take part in the reception of the Honorable Messrs Vogel and Eichardson.

Shares in Anderson's are advancing in value. Tho present <rshing will be continued until the end of the present month, and will realise at least 2ozs to the ton. Some magnificent specimens have been obtained of late from the claim. So good, in fact, that they are carefully deposited in the company's safe as so much bullion.

As an instance of tho ever pi esent need for direct communication between this port and the Melbourne steamers, we may instance that a Westport resident, wl o has lately made a trip to Melbourne, was on his outward trip detained five days at Greymouth, and on his return four days, thus entailing an outlay that would have eono at least some way in meeting the expense of lis passage money by the Melbourne steamer.

A motion of the Provincial Treasurer has been agreed to by the Council:—" That an address signed by the Speaker, be transmitted to his Honor the Superintendent, requesting him to send to the Council a sum of money out of the Provincial revenue to meet the unauthorised expenditure for electoral purposes, amounting to tho sum of £30115s Gd."

Tho improvements made at tho approaches to the Orawaiti Bridge, by tho direction of the Buller Road Board, will prove of very great convenience to packers, and also obviate the clanger heretofore existing of travellers, after nightfall, " missing stays" and getting in dangerous propinquity to the water's edge, instead of on to the gangway of the bridge. The entire length of tho side rails and supports is now also getting a coaling of coal tar, which will act as a good preservative against sunshine and storm.

Mr Arthur J. Green, of Westport, has with well meiited commendation, gained a prize by the award of the Hokitika ExhibiOoinmiltec fur liis exhibits of New Zealand ferns. We hear also that the specimens exhibited have been purchased by a well-known connoisseur, and that similar collections are in demand, both by private collectors and for public institutions. Mr Green's collections are unique and varied, and give proof of good technical knowledge and

unwearied industry in tho gathering to gelhor.

A public dinner to tho Hon. Julius Yogel will be givenalthe Provincial Hall, Nelson, this .evening. A very influential Commit toe comprising several members of the- Provincial Council (among wliose names wo notice those of Messrs Fisher and Simpler) has been appointed to perfect arrangements, and tho affair promises to be a complete suscess.

Constable Rendull, lato Warder at the Nelson gaol, ha,s been stationed for the present at Westport.

The Nelson Wonist states that a telegram was received by the Provincial Secretary as follows: . inform the Superintendent that Agent-General has been instructed to send a ship monthly direct to Nelson with 150 immigrants, and the balance of her complement to Marlborough.—U. B. Hauohton. A complaint is made by tho Reefton Courier that sawn timber in that forestbound township costs twenty shillings per hundred. Latest accounts from Painkiller are encouraging. The present contract for tunnel in No. 1 North is nearly completed, and the men engaged have tapped plentiful water, and intersected various leaders, so that it is confidently expected to srike a good body of stone shortly. As our readers are aware, the best specimens yet found in tho district have been obtained from quartz leaders at Painkiller.

The Inangahua Herald recounts that a few days ago an infant narrowly escaped drowning, or in the event of its escaping that fate, being dashed over the water-wheel which drives Anderson's battery. It appears that by some means it got into the race, and being swept off its legs, rolled over and was carried down a distance of about three chains, when assistance was at hand. A butcher named Stevenson, hearing the cries of the children who witnessed tho accident, rushed to the spot in time to save the little fellow from a shocking fate. As it was, the child was, strange to say, but little the worse.

The Energetic company have secured the right to mine a coal soam distant not more than fifty chains froni their machine site. A tramway connecting this seam with the works will be erected.

Hampden Station, at the Matalritaki, has been purchased from Mr Handyside by Mr Antonio Zala, who, changing his vocation as a quartz miner, will now confine his attention to breeding stock. It is reported that Miss Clara Stephenson has married Mr T. Wills, formerly connected with Murray's Circus, and who has for some time past acted as her business agent. The marriage came off at Queeustown. The vc-ry many friends who deplore the death of the late Mr Kynnerslcy will gain some satisfaction from hearing that a movement is already on foot for erecting a memorial on some appropriate site in Westport. Mere mention of this will, we feel assured, induce at once a ready flow of subscriptions from all parts of the Province.

The Colonist gives Mr Kynnersley's age at the time of his decease at 34 years.

The proprietor of the Talbot Leader, formerly proprietor of the Charleston Herald, has recently made some comments respecting aMr Curtis, living in this district. He retaliated by enclosing an extract from a

home paper, rsspecting the death of a Mr Lefroy, a cousin of Mr Lofroy, storekeeper, of Amherst, This gentleman was shot in the back and killed as he was packing up some things by candlelight, in his house at, Longford, Ireland. Curtis intimates that Mr 'Neale is likely to meet the same

The Greymouth Star of the Gth says :—A serious accident is reported to have happened to the Greenstone coach yesterday. It was coining from Hokitika, having on board several passengers who had been attending the District Court the day previous, when by some, at present unexplained means, it was upset. Sergeant M'Euis was one of them, and it is reported had an arm broken, whilst his wife was seriously hurt, and a man sustained the fracture o'f his leg. A Chinaman who was a passenger and brought the news to Marsden, was hurt about the head and face, and all were more or ess bruised.

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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1149, 10 February 1874, Page 2

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The Westport Times. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1149, 10 February 1874, Page 2

The Westport Times. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1149, 10 February 1874, Page 2

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