SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 316, 27 December 1873, Page 3

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The following are the dates of the various race meetings, and the respective amounts to be competed for:—r :—:—: — Alexandra — January 1, L6O. Drybread — January 2 and 3, LIBO. * Lakes District— Jan. 16 and 17, L 330. Dunstan— Feb. 5 and 6, LSOO. Mount Benger — Dec, 29 and 30. Tapanui— Jan. 22 and 23. Beaumont — Jan, 1. Alexandra — Jan. 1. Tuapeka— Feb. 19 and 20. '

About 400 tons yearly crosses the ford at Hyde. The" residents, have asked the Government for a bridge for that ford, The ■will-prohably t>e giautcd. ' 4 && The Otago Provincial Grovernment advertise for tenders for boring rods. Mr. Adams, the Otago Government Immigration Agent, writes lo the " Times " to say that his future labours are not limited to Scotland. . „ i A ookuBSPONDEVT of the "Daily Times" sa y S : — On the 17th insfc. the foundation stone of the bridge at the "Woolshed on the GUenore section of this line was laid with due ceremony. It is the largest struc'ure of the kind on the Tuapeka line, and from its design will prove an ornament to that part of the district. Owing to the site selee.'ed for the foundations for the piers being a network of underground excavations, made by diggers ivu olden times, torrents of water gushed fortE in all directions, and although all tie available skill and labor were called. into requisition to suppress them, yet the subterraneous repositories continued to dis* charge their contents, until appliances were procured from chinamen in the vicinity which did good service in overcoming the difficulties attending the work, and which at first seemed very formidable. 'ilie masons as well as the navvies manifested strong desire to celebrate the laying of the foundation of the bridge, by something in. the shape of a formal ceremony, and the contract, Mr Campbell, readily acceded to their wish, and sent for Mrs Howard to perform the ceremony. Mr Campbell did not, however, sanction the ceremony being regarded as a public one, as he considered the affair of too* trivial a character for anything like public demonstration. Mrs. Howard, from a desire to please both the contractor and the workmen, as well as to signify her loyalty, named fch» bridge-Louise, the Marchioness of Lome, whereupon,' the men ; gave three ■ hearty cheers, which were re-echoed- by , the hills of Grlenore and the Woolshed.,,, Tbjee cheers were also given .for Mrs.; Howard and the contractor, "'*"