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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 166, 15 July 1874, Page 2

Tbe San Francisco mail will be "due" at Auckland on Friday next. Telegraphic communication with the West Coast and all stations south of Blenheim has been interrupted since yesterday evening. This ia the more annoying that the Claud Hamilton is now due ou the Coast. Nelson Gasworks.— We publish a letter to-day from the manager of our gasworks relative to the meters iu use in the town. The explanation of Mr Mirfin is quite satisfactory eo far as it affects the complaint of one of our hotelkeepers, to which we referred the other day, and we regret that we should have been so misled by a statement voluntarily made to us, but which appears, according to Mr Mirfin's account, to have had so little foundation on facts. ''Augur," the principal contributor to tho sporting columns of the Australasian, writing of the handicap for the Melbourne Cup, aays of our best representative from this Colony : — Bearing in mind the great reputation that Lurline brings with her from New Zealand, I don't see how Mr Barnard could handicap her at less than Bst 1 lib, seeing that as a four-year-old she carried up to 9st 121b, and spreadeagled her fields. Mr W. Robinson, who ran third for the English Darby, with Eltham, and owned many good horaes in the old country, believes her to be quite as good a mare as any that he saw in England, and other good judges who have seen her perform pronounce her to be the equal of Don Juan or Dagworth. If so, she should have a rare look for the Cup." If Mr Redwood decides to start his mare for the Hawke3bury Haudicap, to bo run in August, for which she is weighted at Bst 12lbs, or for the Sydney Metropolitan in September, in which she iB treated to Blbs loss, her running in either raco should give a very good line for her Cup chance, in which she carries 83t 11 lbs, which is I7lbs less than Dagworth, a horse she is pronounced by some to equal. Seeing that the latter horse, with only 6lbs more tban he carried into second place last year in the fastest run Melbourne Cup ever seen, is now backed at two points leaa than the favorite, Lurline should eee a short price ia the market before the race.