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Dunstan Times, Issue 568, 7 March 1873, Page 2

The share list of the Fourteen Milt Beach Quartz Mining Company wo understand is closed ; a sufficient number of shares being apn'ied for to commence operations. We received from our Dunedin agent, yesterday, a telegram of the result of the Colonial Volunteer Prize Firing; but, on account of its haziness and being unable to understand it, we omit it from our columns. We are requested to notice the omtnission of the names of J. A. Prcshaw, Esq., Cromwell, W. U. Burke, Esq., Black’-, and P. Caldqr, Esq.. Alexandra, as being elected on the Committee of Management of the Dunslan .District Hospital. The omission was made in the published report of the meeting ef subscribers, also, in the punted report in pamnhlet We would assure those gentlemen it was pnre’y accidental. and hose this public notiViri n will explain away the difficulty that has arisen there;', om.

The Blue Spur Mining case is finished. The verdict an bs’antially for plaintiffs. The jury increased the damages from 6251. to 2375'. From our Dunedin exchanges, wo learn that the Dunedin Jockey Club has disqualified Reay, the jookey, for Lis misconduct at Lawrence, from riding and running a horse on the Dunedin Race Course, during the pleasure of the Club. Malarae • ora, the famous lady magician, has been delighting large audiences in the Town Hall, Clyde since Tuesday evenin; Inst. Her feits of legerdemain are truly wonderful, and called forth well merited app'ause. The m'>st astounding of all is, the closing scene, “ The couch of the angels in this. Madame (’ora’s beau'iful sVer, Madle Christ’ne is mesmerised, and whilst under the influence, she s suspended in mid air, supported only on the point of her el'iow rn a stout pole, some six feet in height. The body of the young lady is caused to assume every attitude— standing, kneeling, lyin r„ in fact, bending in every fo'‘m to the will of the enchantress -the wh 'le thingis mysterious and wonderful. The not least most astounding part of the entertainm nt is, the distribution of free rifts to holders of tickets every evening. The artio'es are valuable and us >ful, the lea-ling nresent being a silver plated tea and coffee service of four pieces. We cannot say too much of this talented company, and can recommend the entertainm nt to all. Madam Cora wi'l continue in Clyde this evening and to morrow, appearing on Monday at Cromwell. By private advices we hear that over 6000 shares in the Shotover Gold mining Corny, was applied for in Dunedin in 10 days. M' Lennans Pneumaric ilred/e, is we hear nn good payable groun 1, their prospects every day for the past week steadily improving. We would draw the attention of owners of gold hacks, to the various race meetings on the tapis. On Thursday and Friday the 14th and 15th mst,, 60/. is to he competed for at Black’s On the 17th, St. Patrick's Day, 60/. at Raid Hill Flat, cn the same, 90/. at Nevis, We would refer our reade -s to the various p - ogramraea in another column. The Ener etic Company have determined to develop the ree's at Rough Ridge. Their application to register as a Limited Liability Company will de seen in our advertising columns. The number of shares proposed to he issued is 10 C of 5/. each, of which 685 are already taken up. No support has yet been extended to this undertaking by the district. The new Company has prove 1 they can raise stone at one half the price the la'o Company did. It lias been abundantly proved that great carelessness nr very defective machinery, allowed large quantities of gold to escape the old management. Shares will bo offered in the district, but will not bo presso I, as they can be allotted elsewhere. All information can be obtained of Mr, C F. Roberts.— Mount Ida Chronicle. The next sitting of the District Court at Clyde will be held at the Court House, before Wilson Grey, Esq., on Monday, the of 17 ffi March inst. We understand that the Stewards of the Tokamairiro Races have expressed their determ’natinn to exercise vigorously their power of disqualification in any case of breach of racing rules, and to do their utmost to prevent anything that will bring discredit on legitimateracing. Jockeys and owners of horses may rely on it, that they will be closely watched as the Stewards are resolved to mete out the full weight of punishment in any ease that thei e is ground for apprehending the existence of anything but fair play ami honesty; while we, ourselves, will render every assistance in maki ig public any complaints. It is to be hoped that nothing, such as transpired here last year in the Hurdle Race, or like what has been said took place this year at Tuapeka, will occur at Tokomairiro Races otherwise we fear this may b ■ counted as the last that the public here will support. Bruce Hervld The Timaru Herald of the the 24th inst., remarks : —We are glad to see our con temporary is ‘‘coming round,” and can be fairly rational even when writing anent Mr. Stafford. The Times in its Friday’s issue has the following—“ln spite of the prediction made by our morning contemporary in April last, that Mr. Stafford had lost his chance of again becoming a leader in the political arena. That gentleman still continues to hold his position as a man of mark in politics. True, he makes mistakes sometimes like other people, and does, and says things in his unguarded moments which had better have been left undo e a id unsaid, and of which ho no doubt al forward s lepents. Last session for instance, while in a fit of passion, brought on by the bitterness of defeat, he declared hi his place in the House that as he utterly despaired of the future of the Colony unde • its present riders, lie-had made’up his mind to realise all his various properties, and quit the place for ever. Of course this was a very foolish -speech to fall from tfcolips of a politician of Mr. Stafford’s standing, and doubtless he has since seriously regretted it. It made, as well might he.imagined, a deep impression on the public mind—an impression most unfavorable to the speaker. It is gratifying to observe that a change seems to have come over Mr. Stafford’s mind, and that, instead of realising his numerous and valuable estates, < f which we have heard so much and so often, ho is inclined to add to them. In the report of the sale of the Glenmark property yesterday, we sec it stated that the Hon. E. W. Stafford bid aa much as 51,560/. for the Ashburton Run, and after it was knocked down to M". Moore for 52/’OO/., offeicd that gentleman, in the jocular and easy way common to great capitalists, a cool 500/. fm- his bargain We congratulate the honorable gentleman—in ’ sporting phraseology—nn the double event. -First on having such a lot of money, and next on h>s improved views of the prospects of the Colony, as exemplified by bis desire to invest s > numb; not in freehold, bu f in the more doubtful security of leasehold pr-portv. Tf bis vory onen a d c nspiouons bid fir the ran was in'-ndo’ : n ary wny as n pro if of his regto ed eonfilence in New Zeal nd, it wi'L we ‘rest., p odnee the desired effect. Waihouaiii Herald.