YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3089, 13 January 1873, Page 2

YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

Messrs Brogdcn and Co., have given employment on the i lutha railway to some sixty of the German immigrants by the Palmerston.

The Southland Times understands that Mr W. E. Brunton, son of Mr Bruuton, M. Inst. C.E., District Engineer, has been appointed Assistant Engineer on the Invercargill and Mataura Railway.

On Saturday afternoon a colored man, named Chartres, was observed to fall suddenly in Stafford street, and expired on being taken iuto the house off the street occupied by him. Dr. Sorlcy was sent for; hut life was extinct before his arrival. The deceased had been an outdoor patient at the hospital for some time.

The alarm of lire sounded by the watchman on the tower at 3.35 a.m. yesterday, was for what he conceived to be a fire in Rattray street, but which, fortunately, turned out to be a trifling matter. Some bags of lime, in the yard of Messrs Butterwprth Brothers! premises, had ignited, and the turning of a small hose on them soon removed all cause for fear.

The Peeress scandal continues to occupy a great deal of attention in racing circles in Melbourne. “ Augur ” in the Australasian says, in reference to it:—“ The whole of the correspondence that has taken place in JSiew Zealand in re the disqualification of Peeress has been forwarded to the Australasian, but it is altogether too voluminous for publication. From the first I have maintained that the stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club bad no right to disqualify Peeress, and from what I can glean, there appears to have been soine personal feeling in the matter. ' Mr Walters is a sportsman who has raced for years in New Zealand, and those who ought to know state that there is no more houorable man there. In disqualifying lii i mare, the Stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club acted contrary to all racing law. It may have been sharp work upon Mr Walters’s part to scratch the mare, but the V.R.C. might, with more show of reason, have disqualified the hurdleracer Darkie when he was purchased by certain parties who had filled their books to overflowing, and Scratched him when no more milk was to be extracted. The disqui cation pf Peeress was not the only extraorcli»

nary decision of the Canterbury stewards, for it appears tnat in oik; race the first horse came in short of weight, but instead of awarding the stakes to the second horse, they declared the race void, and returned the money to the coffers of the club. Smart stewards those of the Canterbury Jockey Club.”