LAWRENCE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 263, 13 October 1874, Page 6

LAWRENCE.

[from our own Correspondent.]

Oritbber 5, 1874.

The Beaumont Spring Race-Meeting, which was advertised to take placenoh the ! 2nd instant, has been postponed to Friday, October 9th, on account of the inclement weather, which has been of the most wintry description for the last fortnight,' top-coats and umbrellas being the order of'thp day. The soiree-''musicale .which took place on' Monday, the- r2Bth uli* was«> great success',: notwithstanding,the- fact was raining all day, and the night vepy There were over two hundred' persons present, many of whom came a distance of several milts. The programme carried'but in its entirety. The' performers Were Mesdames Titchener, Needham, and ferooday, Misses Fowler and Dalton, and Messrs Wood, Titchener, Ford, Leary, Holmes, and M‘lntyre.Mrs Wood accompanied the performers on the piano, and greatly contri6pted’'to the sue-, cess of the entertainment. ' We are losing some of our business mien just now .• Mr James Hill, watchmaker, who has purchased a connection in Dunedin, and Mr John Keiso, of the Victoria livery stables, who has taken the Prince of Wales stables at Invercargill. I hear that it is probable Mr Martin, jeweller, of Alexandra, will succeed Mr Hill. The Hospital Committee have adopted a new set of rules, some sixty in number, and they will be submitted for approval at a meeting of contributors which is called for the 15th instant. At the last meeting of Committee, the treasurer reported having received the Government subsidy of £403 ; also the sum of £24 Bs. 6d, during the past month in subscriptions. Mr Browne, of Havelock, who met with a serious accident a short time back, is progressing T«r y slowly-..towards recovery.