The Jockey Club last night paid over £2884 in stakes.

Kumara Times, Issue 758, 5 March 1879, Page 2

The Jockey Club last night paid over £2884 in stakes.

[press agency.] —i n. vrrT, Wellington, March 4. The Chronicle says that the Government having found a suitable line for the West Coast Railway* between Kaiwarra and RorirUa. they will commence the Construction of the line from P..rirua end withiu a Week from this date. The will of the late \V. B. Rhodes has been discovered to be very defective in many particulars; and that it is likely to give rise to very peculiar legal complications. Auckland, March 4. The City elections resulted in the m turn of Goldie, the Secularist candidate* 7f6 | Dignan, DenominnatiOnftH.st, 261. Majority for Goldie, MS; ; Christchurch, March 5. Two hundred pounds ha ve been c<>P lected in aid of the Kai tailgate reli-df fund. A number of entertainments are being given in aid of the mime object-. Dunedin, March 5. Four women this week have died of puerperal fever, and a fifth la not expected to live. There is every piobahility of a water famine, if the I’eftervolr ia not replenished within the next few days. Firß AT oamaßu. Oamaru, March 5. At one o’clock thlsT Hlofniilg a firO broke out at Uophan’s hoarding-house* Thames street, and it was found impossible to extinguish it. The following other places were burned down:— Currie’s grain store, Lippent*s grocery shop, Swinard’s (tobacconist), James’s (bootmaker), and Keenan’s boardinghouse. An inquiry will be held. Insurances South British, £IBO on Lippent’s shop, and £350 on the stodk; £3OO on Coghau’s house, and £loo ort the furniture. Victoria; £SOO on Curries building and,, stock. New Zealand ; £350 on Keenan's hoardinghouse, £75 on Swineard's stock. Nor» wich Union ; £SOO On Coghan’a building and furniture. The goods train from Christchurch, due here at 9.30 last; night, ran into a horse and dray, driven by a Gecniai named Neiss, which Was crossing the line at the northern town boundary. • Th » dray was smashed, the horse seriouslr injured, and Neiss thrown out of th * dray and a good deal out about the head. He was taken to the hospital. Masterton, March 6. The insurance losses on (die late' fire are estimated at £SOOO. The strong room of the Bank of Australasia was opened this morning. The jtapers were scorched, but nbt materially damaged. The sealing-wax was not melted. The Bank will be immediately rebuilt, either with bricks or gal vinised iron.