INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 256, 5 November 1878, Page 2

INTER PROVINCIAL.

fPBESa AQENCr.] Dcxedix, Monday. The following are the nominations for the March Cup:— Bead Heat, Cloth of Gold, Benjiroo, Maligner, Lara, Sir James, Sapphire, Chancellor, Coventry, Maccaroni, Blue Peter, Democrat, Barnum, Swindle, Oberon, Atlanta, Raudwick, King Quail, Follefarine, Eallacy, Jangler, King Phillip, Hippocampus, "Venus Transit, Mercer, Dundee, Templeton, Lady Elizabeth, Cambello, Insolvent, Lady Ellen, Maritana, Sinking Fund, Fishhook, Titania, Luna, Laertes, Mufti, Merlin, Elfin King, Danebury, Corinthian, Omega, Naiad, Auckland, Foulplay, Nemo, Ariel, Maroro, Louglands, Mata, Wai-iti, Ramarama, Tattoo, Orange Lightning. Publicans' Handicap: Endymion, Cloth ot Gold, Dead Heat, Benjiroo, Delemain, Maligner, Lara, Sapphire, Chancellor, Blue Peter, Oberon, Atlantic, Randwick, King Quail, Folle Farine, Hippocampus, Cambello, Venus Transit, Sinkiug Fund, Lady Ellen, Maritana, Fishhook, Luna, Laertes, Friction,' Danebury, Corinthian, Omega, Naiad, Foulplay. Jockey Club Handicap-. Cloth, of Gold, Dead Heat, Benjiroo, Delemain, Maligner, Lara, Sapphire, Chancellor, Obercn, Atlanta King Quail, Folle Farine, Fallacy, Jangler,' King Phillip, Hippocampus, Venus Transit, Cambello, Templeton, Insolvent, Maritana, Titania, Fishhook, Luna, Mufti, Danebury, Laertes, Corinthian, Omega, FoulplayjNemo,' Longlanus, Mata, Marora, York. Tuesday. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co's drug business has been turned into a Joint Stock Company with a capital of £200,000 in 100,000 shares of £2 each. The firm has taken up 25,000 shares. The subscription lists in aid of the sufferers by the recent floods are closed, the total amount collected being £21G8. A company is about to be formed to establish tramway communication along the peninsula side of the harbor. The educational returns for the Otago district during the quarter ending 30th Sept. Bhow the number of teachers to be 312, of whom 186 are males. The total number of scholars on the roll at the end of the quarter ■was 15,536, showing an increase for the quarter of 1005. Christchurch, Monday. The following are the acceptances for the Free Handicap:— Danebury Bst 71bs- Foulplay Bst 51bs; LaraTst 121bs. Cambello 7st 8lbs; Sinking Fund 7st slbs; Ramarama 7st slbs; Lady Ellen 7st 51bs; Lady of the Lake 7st slbs; Kalulu Cst 101bs ; Ratcatcher Cst 71b3. Steeplechase Handicap : Te Whetu 12st 71bs ; Agent, 12st iJlbs; Eversley 12st 21bs; Royalty, list 7lbs ; Moose, list 21bsThe Lad, list. Tuesday. The weather for the races is everythiug that can be desired. Large numbers of strangers are in town, and there is every chance of a large gathering on the course. The following are the acceptances for the C.J.C. Handicap :— Fishhook, King Quail, Ramarama, Chancellor, Templeton, Mufti, Luna, Longlands, Bribery, Maritana, Foam, Laertes.— Free Handicap: Foul Play, Lady of the Lake, Kalulq, Cambello, Danebury, ginking Fundj Z&xa.^..—

JSatator was sold yesterday to Mr W. F Neilsou. Ten scholarships have been reserved for the Girls Scholarships at the High School. i^l a cricket meeting it was resolved that Ihe Canterbury team should visit Australia •is a gentleman team, taking no gate money. The sum of £100 was subscribed in the room. The total cost will be £500. The team expect !o bo absent six weeks. Special excursion trains are to be run South during the races. Wet.lixotox, Tuesday. It is said that during the recess^efforts will be made by the Government to extend the railway to To Aweamntu, also that a conference will be held here shortly between the Minister for Public Works and the beads of the Public Works aiid Railway Department, in connection with the works to be undertaken during the recess in accordance with the Railway Construction Act. The New Zealand 7 'hues says that Inspector Brougham, of Chiislchurcli, will be transferred to Wellington in place of Inspector Atcheson who goes to Nelson. When the Taupo was put on the patent slip last night, a considerable graze was found along her port bilges, several places being dented or slightly started. There was also some damage to the garboard streak plate where rivetted to the keel. Several of the plates are bent in between the ribs, but the damage as a whole was not sufficient to call for the detention of the steamer, and after coming off the slip she proceeded on her voyage South full of passengers. Auckland, Tuesday. The Government intend to cut up the Te Aroha block of Eroomhall celebrity to make the Thames Valley railway. A township of 2000 acres on the river will be marked oft: and the proceeds from this alone, it is expected, will defray the cost of constructing the line from the Thames river lo Hamilton. The balance of the block will be cut up into small farm sections, and will, it is believed, supply the requisite funds to continue the railway into Grahamstown. The work is to be carried out immediately. Gretto'.vn, Tuesday. The lion G. M. Waterhouse has forwarded a cheque for £4G to the Greytowu Institute for the purchase of books. The sum is a third of his honorarium which he has always distributed in this way.