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[Pbbss Aqrnoy.] I NT.B KPEOYINCIAL. , . . Donbdin, Thursday The Jockey Club have announced the conditions of the Derby for 1877 and '78. The date ot nomination will be April 19 ; the added money 15U soys ; sweepstakes 10 soys. Alter a lang continuance of fine weather, a sudden change has taken place to rain with sharp cold. The arguments in the Tairoa salvage case ■will probably be conclude 1 to-day. • A Onbhdkga, Thursday. Sailed : steamer Tarnnaki, at 1 p.m. Passengers for .Nelson — Mrs. Elliott and Mr. Anawell. Auckland, Thursday. A Provincial Government Gazette, published yesterday gives the correspondence . between &lr George Grey and the Colonial Secretary re the educatum funds, the removal of the unemployed miners irom the Thames, and the January accounts. Sir Geo. Grey's final letter re the unemployed contains the following: — "You t'Bk roe to s»y whether or not I desire that tbe men shall be removed at the public expense from this province to Wellington. I have to state that the correspondence connected with the removal oi people from, the Thames and the proposals relateing thereto were conducted iv the first instance contrary to the usual custom in the public ser,r.ic.e» with a .private person, without the Superintendent having been in aDy way consulted or referred to by the|Go«renu? ieD s © n the subjfjot. -i 1 therC for * 9^131$ 896 now £ on interfere ia tie mattejf,
Wellington Wednesday. The highest bsotbt f>r the firßt set of district, pr zes is Sapper Marshall, Christchurch, 73 pours; ani in the second set Sapper Trope, Christchurch, 60. The present tin atre building is advertised for sale on Tuesday next, and a new theatre is fo be erected forthwith. The Canterbury Riflo Association Prize Meeting is fixed to take place on Easter Monday and Tuesday. There is an unu.ually attractive programme. The full complement of teachers for the 1 Canterbury Normal Schools, which coßt nearly .£20,000 have been appointed. The schools open next montb. Inveroargill, Wednesday. The subscribers of the Athenaeum have held a large meeting, and decided by 150 against 117, to open the reading-room four hours on Sunday afternoon. There is considerable excitement over the matter.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 74, 16 March 1876, Page 2
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