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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 90, 3 April 1876, Page 4

The - racehorses ; Kingbsher, Sultan Isaac Walton, Banker, John Stopel, and Jasper were landed at Westport from Greymouth by the Murray yesterday morning. ' Some idea ofthe corn trade of Canterbury may be.^ gathered from the fact, that a local firm has chartered a vessel to bring. upwards of 3000 bales of coin sacks from Calcutta. The Indian article is as good and cheaper than the - Dundee manufacture. A sensational story was lately published in the German newspapers. An officer in theL German Imperial Foot Guards was said -to have received a challenge from Paris in which thirty officers of his. regiment were bidden to do battle with art equal number of Frenchmen. The German Government considered the matter of sufficient importance to .justify the demand for explanation addressed by its Ambassador to the French authorities at tbe French capital.: Finally it turned out that such a .challenge had really been sent but that its sender was not* a French officer, and that the insane act was repudiated by French military opinion.