LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 214, 7 March 1872, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Beaumont Races are announced for Tuesday, the 19th inst. Mr. M. Hay announces that it is his intention to hold sales of horses aud cattle at Mr. Docherty's Yards every fourth Thursday. The first sale will take place on the 29th inst. In our last issue, by the omission of a figure, the prices obtained for horses at Mr. Hay's sale at Docherty's yards was said to be from £3 to £6, iustead of from £3 to £60."

The Lawrence Christy Minstrels have several novelties in rehearsal for the entertainment on behalf of the Hospital they intend giving at the Commercial Assembly Room, on the evening of Monday next, the 11th inst. The success that has attended their previous performances is a guarantee that they will provide a first-rate evening's amusement for those who may. form the audience. Irrespective, however, of the merits of the performance, the object for which it is to be given ought to be sufficient to cause a bumper house. The programme will be found in another columy. The juvenile members of the Lawrence Band of Hope are to be entertained at a pic-nic on the Race Course on Saturday next. The children will assemble at the School, and will start from thence in a procession at half -past con a.m. We hope that the Clerk of the Weather will aid the effoits of the promoters of the pic-nic in providing a day's amusement for the juvenile abstainers.

We are requested by Mr." Coombe to state that in the published list of nominations for the Tokomairiro Handicap, his horse Catapult has been accidentally omitted. On Tuesday evening next, a public meeting in connection With the Lawrence Band of Hope will be held in the Athenaeum. Addiesses will be delivered by several gentlemen.

The Switzers Annual Races will take place on Thursday and Friday next, the 14th and 15th inst. The liberal piizes offered ought to attract good fields, and there is every probability that the various events will .be keenly contested. Should there be fine weather, the attendance of spectators on the course will, we have no doubt, be satisfactorily large. Full particulars will be found in the posters issued by the stewards.

Wu remind our Roxburgh readers that Dr. Moran, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, will deliver a lecture in the Schoolhouse of that town on Monday next, the 11th inst. The proceeds are to be applied towards liquidating the debt on the Roxburgh Roman Catholic Church.

One hundred and thirty-five of the Chinese whoardved by tho Whiilwind have mado their way to Waipori, and three waggon loads have paosed. tUioujjU Llwreuoe, going uj> country. The Tapanui Races will take place next Wednesday. There is every prospect of a large assemblage of spectators, good fields of horses, and well-contested events.

The gold medal given by the Corporation of Lawrence, to the best general scholar amongst the boys attending the Grammar School, was presented by the Mayor on the 19th ult., to Master R. C. Menzies, to whom it li.nl been awarded at the annual examination. Previous to making the presentation, the Mayor addiessed the school and also made a few appropriate remarks to the recipient of the medal. The medal is a beautiful specimen of the jewellers art, and was made by Mr. Hill, Lawrence, on whom it reflects the highest credit, both for workmanship and design. 0n one side of it is engraved, "From the Corporation of Lawrence, to R. Cloud Menzies ; " and on the other, "The bes} general scholar among the boys at the Lawrence Grammar School." Both inscriptions are encircled by chased laurel wreaths, and there are two clasps attached to the medal.

We have thoroughly reliable infoimation in our possession contiadictovy of the scurrilous report which has recently been cit dilated regarding Guorgo .\gncv.', inU'.y of V/..i.*',n."-! lie was no later llian tlie middle of las!, mcr.th keeping a butcher's shop in New South Wales. His wile and family, and also his father, were residing with him. We have been obliged to hold over our report of the Town Council meeting and an article on the advisability of having the Tuapeka district proc'aimed a Road Board. In our next issue we shall treat this subject fully. Meanwhile, the Town Council have sanctioned three days' expenses of a man to go round the district and obtain signatures to a petition to tlie Superintendent, to further this laudable object.