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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 142, 23 March 1872, Page 2

St. Patrick’s Day Races. —The final meeting of the committee appointed to carry out these races was held last evening at tlio Pacific Hotel. Present— Messrs Wallnutt (in the chair), D. Bull, H, Mcllhone, E. Thomas, and P. Griffin. The treasurer aud secretary’s accounts were produced, and found corrected as follows :—To amount of subscriptions, £l3O Is 6d; to amount received for booths, stalls, and cards, £43 7s Gd ; total, £173 9s. Payments : To prizes, £122 IDs ; band, £l2 ; to carting stationery, attendauts, colours, &c., £l4 1,9 s 6d ; advertising, £22 14s Gd. Balance iu hand, £1 ss. This balance, with other sums raised, amounting to £5 15s, was handed to the boy French who was hurt on the course. A vote of thanks was passed to Messrs O’Keeffe and Spencer for the use of the course. We cannot allow such a satisfactory termination of these sports to pass without saying tfiat the management throughout was carried' ou in a friendly painstaking manner, and which were carried out by the committee and W. Oldrey, the hou. sec., with indefatigable exertion.

There was a long sitting of the R.M. Court yesterday, but none of the cases were of much public importance. At the time the Court rose the list was not got through, aud the cases not reached will be heard to-day, at the conclusion of flic Court business. The cases so left over will be found enumerated in another place. ■ > H £ J

At the Police Court yesterday the char- g sheet consisted of one case of drunkenness only. Several summons cases are. set down for hearing this morning, among which is an assault case, in which Mr J. M. Perrier is complainant and Mr Stidolph defendant,

We understand that the Rev. Mr Lush and Mr Lawlor have paid a visit to the Tararu district, with a view of seeing if they could raise funds for the erection of a building, for a church, to be in connection with St. Goorge’s. They got £3O in about three hours, and feel confident that the thing can be carried out. Mr R. Graham, with his usual liberality, baa offered them an allotment as a site, and we sincerely hope that their idea .will be successfully carried out. A scratch match will be played by members of the T.C.C. this afternoon, at the Club ground, bhortlaftd, when it is to he hoped hat they will muster in goodly numbers for the practice. The' T.S.V. Cadets assembled at the Volunteer Hall last evening, under Lieutenant Pascoe and Sub-Lieutenant Champion, for their monthly muster parade. A large number turned up, but we understand that the inspection did not take place, why, wc cannot say. The following letter has been received by the Chairman of the Mining Board:—“Colonial Secretary’s Ofllce, Wellington, 16th March, 1072.—Gentlemen,—I am directed by Mr Gisborne to acknowledge the receipt of your petition to his Excellency the Governor, relative to the action of his Honor the Superintendent towards the Mining Board, at Auckland, and, in reply, to inform you that on his Excellency’s return to Wellington, your petition will be taken into consideration.—l have, &c., —(Signed) G. S. Coopkr, Under Secretary.—Daniel Garvey, Esq., and members of Mining Bonrd, Auckland.”

We take the following from the Dunedin Star ; —“ It will be remembered that when Walker fired with Christie at the Forbury Park, the match nearly went off because the latter had to fire off the mounds. Walker, after the match was over, communicated with the Victorian Fdfie Association, with a view to obtaining the opinion of that body as to whether his contention that it was compulsory for competitors to fire off the mounds was correct or not. The reply of Mr Davis, non. secretary to the association, has been forwarded to us, and is as follows :— 1 In reply to your question as to whether a competitor in a rifle match could fire otherwise than from the top of the firing mound, I beg to state that it has been iuvanably the rule in matches in this colony that competitors must fire from, the top of the mounds. We disqualified a competitor at our last meeting for not doing so.’ ” — Herald. Can girls stand a college course of study ? Mrs Stanton thinks they can, and says : —“ I would like you to take 1,300 young men and lace them up, and hang ten to twenty pounds weight of clothes on their waists, perch them on three-inch heels, cover their heads with ripples, chignons, rats and mice, and stick ten thousand hair-pins into their scalps; if they can stand all this they can stand a little Latin and Greek.”

A doctor lately informed his friends in a large company that he had been eight days in the country. “ Yes,” said one of the party, “ it has been announced in the newspapers.” “Ah 1” said the doctor, stretching his neck importantly, “ pray in what terms ?” “ Well, as well ns I can remember, in the following ‘ There were last week seventyseven deaths less than the week before !”

Already 17,000 bales of wool, representing a value of about £340,000, have been bought and shipped from Melbourne to Boston, New York, and Snu Francisco, and buyers from Canada have also purchased about 2,000 bales, representing a money value of £40.000, which, within the last few days, have been forwarded to Montreal by the Maggie Leslie.

One firm iu Melbourne, Messrs Goldsbrough and Co. have already offered for sale during the present season 61,000 bales of wool, representing £1,200,000, and have actually sold 47,000, or more than £910,000 worth.

Before hanging a man in Louisiana they let from In to 40 reporters for the newspapers “interview” him for three weeks. The poor fellow is then not only willing but anxious to be hung. A Yankee one day asked his lawyer how an heiress might bo carried off. “You cannot do it with safety,” said the counsellor ; “but I’ll tell you what you may do. Let her mount a horse, and hold a bridle-whip; do you then mount behind her, and you are safe, for she mns away with you.” The next day the lawyc v found that it was his own daughter who had run away with his client. A pillow-slip containing a blanket and some articles of clothing, a small leather trunk containing Enfield ammunition and percussion caps, and a number of copies of the “ Sunday at Home ” and “ Quiver ” were picked up yesterday by Mr Wilson, tailor, Cochranc-strcet, inside his fence, where they had evidently been thrown by a passer-by, and handed over to the police, where they now await identification. The property is apparently that of some Volunteer, and although of no great value, the owner may be glad to get it back again, which he can do on proof of ownership, by application to the police.

At the Canterbury amateur athletic sports, the six events won by Manning and Lewin, ns already to hand by telegrams, were — Lewin, half mile race and 440 yards race. Manning, 100 yards race, 200 yards race, 440 yards flat race, and putting the stone. Manning was second in the high jump and running long jump, and third in throwing the cricket-ball, at !)8 yards, the two highest throws being 110 and 108 yards. Lewin ran second to Manning in the 200 yards race. Manning ran iu the mile race, but was nowhere.