Local Intellingence.

Tuapeka Times, Issue 432, 6 February 1875, Page 2

Local Intellingence.

Ta:t British and other mails via San Francisco will c'ose at the Post-offiou. Lawrence, on Friday. 12ih inst.. at G a.m.

In the Resident Surgron's Report of the Tuupeka Goldfields Hospital, which appeared in our last issue, the woid "' where " appears in error, instead of " when." The conchiding portion of the sentence should read '* when medical assistance was of no avail." We have been tequested to state that a transposition of figuies nj'pcais in the M.S., of the Financial statement, in whi< h Medical Comforts aie stated to have been £19 5s 6<l, and drugs £142 19s lid. Tl.e figures should have been p'aml thus, thugs £19 5^ Gil, and medical comfor s i 142 9s lid. Today is '• Now Yeai's Day " with our cele&tial friends. Great, prrpaiations have been going on at the Cbii.ese camp tliis week for its celebration. Nearly all the Chinese diggets for some nii'es round have discontinued work in their claims and have flocked into the camp to eiijoy their holiday after their own fashion. HARVFfi>TrNO' in the ntiehbourlioocl of Timpeka and Evans Fhit is now general, and the reaper can be seen busily at work ir. all directions. Oats is the principal crop grown, and from appearance the yield should be up to the average.

We are informed that a gymnasium has been opened in the old Wosleyan Church, for the benefit of the young men of Lawrence. It is conducted by Mr. H. Lawler, who, we believe, has had considerable expei ie'ice in connection with all kinds of gymnastic exercises. On one or two occasions he has performed before Lawrence audiences, when his evolutions, whether on the trapfze or horizontal bar, have elicited praise for their cleverness of execution.

The usual monthly meeting of the Lawrence Fire brigade was he'd in the Commercial Hotel on Thursday evening, Lieutenant Hills in the chair. After some routine business had been transacted Messrs Storry and Johnston were elected members of the brigade. - The "Pi ovincial Government G.tzette" con" tains a proclamation extending part XIII. of the Muuicipaljjjporpovation's Act, 1867, to the Municipality of Lawrence. This will now enable the Council to get a code of Bye Laws drawn up, which will empower them to get rid of many existing grievances. The Commercial Hotel, Tapanui, so long and successfully managed by Mr. Andrew Allan, changed hands on Thursday. Mr. William Simmonds, well known ia the Tuapeka district, having purchased it. In the neighbourhood of the Blue Spar thistles have increased a hundred fold during the past year. The abandoned workings in Gabriels' Gully and the surrounding hills are now almost en tit fly covered with them. GEORGE Robertson f the Maori,) has arrived in Dunedin in prder to take up Tyson's challenge to wrestle him in the Cumberland- Westmorland style for £50 a side ; and that, should Tyson's friends decline to complete arrangements, Robertson will challenge Tyson through the newspapers to wieatle him for either £50 or £100 a side. Mr. Sthachan, of the firm of Hunter and Straclian, contractors, in yesterday's "Guardian" contradicts tl c statement made by us that they had thrown up the contract for the Manuka Creek tnnnel. The contradiction is a moat curious one. Here it is :—": — " Hunter, who had undertaken to complete the work on his own account, has acted on his own responsibility and risk without my concurrence.— War. Strachan." The Crown Hotel, Balc'utha, has been leased from Mr.' M'Neil by Mr, T. Stanbrnojc late of Clyde. We should think Mr. Statibrook will make an excellent hotelkeeper. Good progress is being made wiih the erection of the Otago Co.'s batte-y. Blue Spur. A quantify of the machinery an ivcd on Wednesday Jast, and will be placed in position in a few days. .' The City of Vienna, from London, arrived at Port Charmers on Wednesday morning,, She blings 10 cabin and 22 second cabin and steerage p-.vssengei a, an'l a full cargo of general merchandise, besides 500 tons of dead weight. She had a good passage. The City of Dunedin with a lar^e number of immigrants left Britain a week before the City of Vienna, and is still at sea; A mile race was run on the Newmarket ' course at" the last Hcrughton meeting, hetweeu Prince Charlie the best mile horse in England, and Peut-Elre the winner of the Cambridgeshire Handicap, and twi'd to be the fastest French bred horse in training for one mile. Prince Charlie carried Bst 101 b, and the Frenchman 7st 101 b. Prince Charlie conceding 31b more than weight for age. The match was for £500 a side and caused iutense excitement in racing circles as it was understood that it was to be Prince Charlie's last race. This noble son of Blair Athol having placed to his credit twenty-three races during his career on the turf. Immediately the match was made, 6 to 4 was betted on the English representative, and subsequently 7to 4. tie justified the confidence reposed in him, and" w6n easily. Prince Charlie I was ridden by Parry, and Peut-Etre by Carratt.