MAORI POINT.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 106, 4 May 1864, Page 4

MAORI POINT.

(from our own correspondent.) Since my last letter, I am happy to say that the river has continued to fall, and parties are now in full work again. On Friday, Mr R. Harris paid us a visit, and after putting up Bracken's Hotel, he kindly proposed to sell the booths for the forthcoming races, gratis, which offer was accepted with thanks. They realised 35/. Mr. Nelson was the successful purchaser of the grand stand for 18/. No. 1 was bought by Mr Slater for 10/., and No. 2by Mr Burke for 71. Although we have not been able to advertise very large amounts for the different prizes, w° fully expect a handsome surplus, which will be appropriated for a handicap race on Saturday, so as to give the owners of horses that pay us a visit a chance of making their expenses. The stewards of the races have applied to the police authorities for two mounted men during the races, and I hope they will see the necessity of complying with the request. You wrongly advertised the jumps for the steeplechase as 4ft, high; it should be 4£ft. The Hurdle Race is altered from 2£ miles to If: heats. * The following was accidentally omitted from the Regulations:—Three pounds allowed for mares and geldings. The following amounts are to be inserted in their respective places, hitherto left blank:— Maiden Plate, 15/; Hurdle Race, 20/; Miners' and Packers' Purse, 10/; Hack Race, 10/. Second Day—Steeplechase, 30/; Consolation Stakes 20/; Cheroot Race, 10/. We regret the above letter arrived too late for us to alter the advertisement of the Maori Point races.] A Specimen of Mexican Cursing.—A very considerable sensation has been created by the circulation of a printed paper, headed the « Censures of the Church," declaring that any person who should presume to convert to his own use, or usurp under any pretext whatsoever, property belonging to the Church should be " Cursed in his house and out of his house, in the city and out ot the city, waking and sleeping, eating and drinking, sitting and walking j he is to be cursed in his flesh and in his bones, from the tip of his toe to the crown of his head; the vengeance denounced by God against the children of iniquity is to fall upon him; his name is to be effaced from the boik of the living, and not to be inscribed in the book of the just; his lot and inheritance is to be with the fratricide Cain, Dathan and Abiram, with Ananias, with Simon Magus and with the traitor Jndas ; he is to p-r'M on tiie iiay of judgment, devoured by eternal fire, with the devil and his angels."