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Evening Star, Issue 3136, 8 March 1873, Page 3

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{From the New Zealand Press Association.) lawukmt,, March 8. M'ssrs Macandrew and Bastings arrived here last night from the Teviot. They attended the anniversary soiree of the Congregational Church, and delivered addresses apropos to the occasion. It was proposed by Mr Macaudrew’s friends to give him a banquet on Monday night, but be declined. Hokitika, March 7. The notorious Chamberlain and Levy esoapeej. f rom the hard labor gang this afterhoom ■ i; Wellington, March 7'T’he races to-day were well attended, the weather being excellent. F6r the 1 Hurdle Rr>ce, Dick Turpin walked ovtp. T|}e Hutt Park Stakes wgre won by Reijwood's Malvina, Southern Gbipf being second. For the Publicans' Purse, Redwood’s Simplicity won the first heat, but was disqualified for crossing ; Kaikai then w ilked over. Mr Chambers, lessee of tlie Ngakawa coal mine, bad an interview with the Government to-day, to urge the construction of a railway

to Westport. The Government is not likely to entertain the project. Several tenders have been received for the unlot portion of the Waitaki line. The consideration of them is postponed. UNPUBLISHED ENGLISH. London, February 27. The K.M.S. Baroda reached (Lille yesterday. The mail is expected to reach Loudon on March 24. Fcbmary 28. The Navy Estimates arc 141,872.725. The Russian expedition to Khiva is concentrated. Lord Enfield, in the House of Commons, said the Government would neither ask Russia to fix a line beyond which she should not pass, as a permanency against her advance towards the intermediate zone, nor recognise any unannexed territory as available f r annexation. Madrid is quiet.