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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 43, 19 February 1872, Page 2

Trotting MATCH.^-The match- for £50; a side between Mr. M'G-lashau's Creeping Jenny and Mr. X* , Harvey's Blaqk Eagle^ which is excitibg a good deal, ot > interest in sporting circles, will come off to-morrow morning, the course selected being from the Eed Horse, Richmoud, to the TurfHotel. ■•■-■ '••••:••'•■'. '■■.•■■.''■; :.-J >-r*.! : \<j-i

Thames Share MARKET.'-—Tne Auckland Herald, of Saturday, has, th?. follow-; ing" telegram :— -The .share market declining, with the exception of All- Nations,,. .£s^loß. (beirj|" refuief , golden C>lfj-^i^6di; -Gentfal Italy,' %2sr ■ 6d. ; Non pareilj ,5755.; v: Calfedoniab-, I' £14. to "£is; ■ •.-•■•■. ■ . ■-

Cricket. — A, .match baviDg been arranged b^t^een jtfceWanganui aod Wakefiejcl:: olybsi'to take' place to-day on the grbuod jbf: | the litter i" ; the s.s. Wangariui arrived in harbor yesterday morning withthe Wanganui team, who Btorted for Wakefield at 7 o'clock this morning. The eleven consists of the following gentlemen: — Messrs.; J.FJeetwpod (captain), Ri A. Daniel), A. Carlyon, Danvers, J. Notman, J. W. Peake, A. Drew, J. Jones, J. P. Watt, Mull it, and Jacobs. Major Nixon, an old Nelson ..settler, accompanies the team as umpire, and Mr. H. D. Hardinge, the bon. sec. of the clujb, ,as scorer. San Francisco Mail Service.— The s.s. Hero, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Friday last, brings intelligence that Mr. Webb has entered into engagements with the A.S.N. Company to the effect that their boats shall connect at Auckland with the American steamers, which, by the terms of the contract, are to run down the New Zealand coast. The first steamer under this arrangement is the City of Melbourne, which was to leave Sydney for Auckland on the 16th instant, bringing mails and passengers for the Nevada. The City of Melbourne will lie at Auckland for the Nebraska, and eail with mails and passengers for the Australian colonies six hours after the arrival of the boat from Honolulu. The Nebraska isdue^by the Postmaster^ General's, time- j table, on the 26th inst., but we can hardly expect. her so soon. — Herald.. .Bush Fires.t— Again we' have had a smart fire, which has done considerable injury on' the Meadowbank ßun, belonging to Mr. A. P. Seymour. It appears that Mr. Donnelly fired some rubbish on his land at Doctor's Flat on the' Hen wick New Road, which was carried with in--creJible swiftness along the. run before named for several miles. Sfeadowank House had a very narrow escape, and had it not been for lighting fire against; fiire, nothing could have. saved .that'' property, and the stacks adjoining. Mr./Avkry had some fencing burned, and his plaice had a very narrow, escape also. Mr: Seymour and a number of assistants worked hard at it all night, ,and kept the fire from the ; station, although it peuetrated' the shearing yards. There is reason to believe that a large quantity of fencing has been i destroyed on the run. We noted yesterday that the fire which had run among the back ranges was still smouldering. — Express .Feb. 27. The Late Flood at Greymotjth, — The following is an extract from a private letter, dated February 10, from a gentleman who was aa eye-witness: of: the late disastrous flood in the Grey :— (i The rain began $o fall on Tuesday night, 1 and on the afternoon of. the following day, the river began to rise, and continued to do co till about 4 o'clock on Friday morning. I did not go to bed till after 11 on Thursday night, but sleep was Vanished by the roar of the flood, yet over this turmoil came the hoarse shouts of men for " help," and the piercing shrieks of women and children calling for assistance. At | daybreak "tucker" boats ; were seen plying up and down, the back streets taking the unfortunate inhabitants to places of safety, or rather, I ought to say, of comparative safety. About 5 o'clock the houses began to be -carried away bodily into the ocean, and it w£s a pitiable sight to see as many as six or seven in the river at one time floating away. The papers only give a list of thirty-three or thirtyfour houses destroyed, but that is not half the number that went; from seventy to eighty is about the mark. Greymouth is built ou a shingle bed, and from what I have Been to-day, now the flood has subsided, I am convinced that had the flood continued a few hours longer not a house would have been left. All the houses were flooded, and most of those remaining are terribly shaken by the force ot the current. The Greymouthians are sadly afraid that this inundation will cause the General Government to pause before fix- . idg on a shingle bed as the terminus for tha railwayy and I;; believe that is th(3 reason the papers have not published the truth in full.'? ' The Netts by the Californian mail was curiously delayed in its transmission from to : Ballarat. The operators in the Telegraph office found that there was something seriously wrong with the wires They "were puzzled ' for some minute^ until they went outside and saw that a crowd of people was watching the performance of aa escaped cockatoo. The bird had got away with a long steel chain attached to one of its legs, and had selected one of the telegraph wires, about midway between the posts as its perch.- The bird itself would not have done much barm-, but the chain which dangled about the wires, and ultimately got twisted round them, interfered very, /materially with the work in the office. The most assiduous coaxing, and the heaviest stones were of no avail and a laddetCbad to-be procured to remove' the; peccant P011y... , :l; jorliiK: For remainder of news see fourth page, v