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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 188, 10 August 1871, Page 2

Wreck at Westport.-^ A 'telegram has* reached; town stating, .that. the' 'schooner Canterbury, from Lyttelton, 'was^'^wveck'e^; at Westport tbis morning. about a quarter of a mile to the northward: of, the; signalstaff. No lives. were lost, „ Sale of Stock. — Mr. Augarde reports "a sale of stock at Spring Groye ; .yesterday, when there was a fair show of cattle in ordinary condition. . Hei,fers_ ; with calves realised £5 .per head ;. ,store ; cattle, £7 ; borses, of a useful description, but low in condition, £5 155.; some trap horses were also sold at.froni £& to £s. .[ Asricultural. implements fetched very low prices. Winter Evening Lectures. — The .next lecture of. the series wilLbe delivered at the ..Assembly Rooms, to-morhow evening, by Dr. Cotterell,. the subject being "The .Mechanism of the Human Skeleton." Tho lecture will, we understand, be illustrated by- drawings of the human frame by Mr. 'Gully, one of which, seven feet in height, represents, an, entire skeleton. .- ; . :■."•*