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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 590, 7 December 1869, Page 2

We publish in a supplement the telegraphic summary of the news received by the last English mail. What was by courtesy called a horse-race was run yesterday afternoon during a pelting rain and over the present very stoney beach between the Orawaiti and the Duller. Lyons, a packer to the Northern Terraces, rode, for the second time within a weelr, his horse " Bobby," and he and " Lobby " again won the race. The other horse was Robert M'l'arlaud's "Donald." " Donald" exhibited nothing of the proverbial slowness of his Celtic namesakes, but he did not come in first, and did not earn the stakes. "Donald" or airy other horse, must have had little respect for his hoofs, and great respect for a few dripping spectators, to excite himself over such a race, and he did not do it. For the present, after two victories, both "Bobby" and his owner are the "lions."

The attention of speculators and others is directed to the sale of the Prince of "'.Vales Hotel, this day, at two o'clock, by Messrs Kobertson and Co. The same " Knights of the Hammer" notify, at twelve o'clock to-day, the sale of the Boatm an's Arms, in Gladstone street. The Ship and Castle Hotel in Wharf street, and the Clarendon Hotel at the comer of Molesworth and Kennedy streets, are also to be disposed of by public competition. In addition to these four hotels, the premises lately occupied by Messrs Whyte and Pirie as a drapery establishment' are in the market through the same agents. It is to be hoped that our local "Geoige Eobins" will be able to satisfy all the vendors and purchasers, and reserve a little "puff " for the race-booths.