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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 977, 14 September 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

Of that veteran actor, Mr. Hoskins,' the Sydney Bulletin says : —“ Billy Hoskins has, we hear, once more entered into the toils of matrimony —this time with Miss Douglas, a Melbourne lady of nineteen. The New York Clipper states that Edward Hanlan, the champion, has fully determined to row all his future races in Toronto Bay, and certainly he has been travelling over the world, or the rowing part of it, long enough to justify him in detnading that all aspirants for. sculling fame should row him pn '.his own. water. He will, however, take enough exercise to keep him in good trim during the season ; and, as an? inducement for one or other of them to visit Toronto, he is reported as saying that he will give either Courtenay or Trickett fifteen seconds start, or Wallace Ross ten seconds, in five miles. The Australasian a journal published at New York, and “ devoted to the extension of American commerce with Australia,” &c., publishes in full Mr. Consul Griffin’s report on “ Trade betw’een New Zealand and the United States,” and on “ The Trade in Kerosene Oil and Lamps with New Zealand,” the same journal states : —“ Auckland, by its geographical position,, is destined to become the chief centre of the South Sea Island and Pacific trade. The necessity of a good line of sailing vessels or steamships from New York to that port is indisputable. Regular communication with New Zealand would soon bring to us a large portion of a magnificent trade which now goes direct to England, simply because the New Zealand merchants can rely upon the arrival of their imports at a certain date, and make preparations to receive and sell them while they are in transit.”

Mr, Gladstone is crediled with a plan for giving the Colonies power ‘te elect; their own Governors, the experiment to be made in the first place with Canada. The Auckland Star Jsays : —AMelbourne gives the following tj-aiiiing notes 10,000 tfo 400 each has oeafi* Ikid auriiig the week by Joe Thompson against Mr Whittingham’s horses Prince George for the Maribyrnong Plate, and Chatterer for the Melbourne Cup,'\Th4 Ballarat Turf Club Intend having two days’ meeting on the 2(Jth and 28th of December. Corrigan is recovering from the severe shaking he received at Ballarat when Twilight came down with him. The Betting market is still very dull. In doubles, Melbourne Derby and Cup, Monmouth and Progress and Monmouth with Lord Burghley are most frequently selected., A number of horses are out daily, the most of them doing good useful work. Soothsayer had a good good stretch of four miles on the tab. Wellington, with Lowlander, has been undergoing good preparation. Sir Joseph, and Napper Tandy are all doing well. Camballo has been shipped to India.