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Sweep. TtT EL B O URNE CUP, 188 L H. N. ABBOTT'S ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OP PRIZES. ON THK MELBOURNE CUP 10,0 0 0 SUBSCRIBER^, £1 Each. About 250 Prizes. First Horse ... £1,500 0 0 Second Horse 700 0-0 Third Horse ... 400 0 0 Other Starters (divided) ... 1,500 0 0 Non starters (divided) ... 2,700 0 0 Ten Prizes at £100 each ... 1,000 0 0 Twenty Prizes at £50 each... 1,000 0 0 One Hundred^PrTJfes at £12ea... 1,200 0 0 £10,000 0 0 SPEOIAL PRIZE FOR EARLY- APPLI- - f • - -.CANm . To induce early applications a Prize of £20 will be given amongst the first 4000 snbsori* bore. "■■.. .. ■. ■ :■-•,. '• 'j Please add exchange to cheques and stomp for reply. An extra stamp if result is ie« quired by post. H. N. ABBOTT, ' ■ : ! Treasurer, United Service Hotel, Auckland. Or - JiMES -JONES, Wharf Hotel, Gresmonth« LFRED ' A, CAMERON'S £6000 CONSULTATION •■•■;■) ON' THE ENGLI S H DERBY. ■Run at Epsom Downs, near London, in Jane, 1881. 246 Borses Nominated. Fee, £l. First Horse ... ...£BOO- 0 0 Second Horse ... .... 500 0 0 Third H«rso ... ...."300 0 0 Starters (divided) ... ... ftJOO. 0 0 Noa-startere (divided) ... 3400 , 0 0 Total ... '■] ' :.. ( £6006 ) 'O 0 Above will close early, and .may probably be drawn several weeks before the. arrival of ; the London newspapers by the first English mail after the race. Names of Starters and Noo-starterst can only be ascertained authentically through the medium ot the Press, as Cablegrams from London to the Colonies do not give the lnfor* mation. . „ With crossed Cheques add 1« exchange. Two postage stamps. Post office orders or registered letters are recommended.; ■ . .. Note.— MELBOURNE CUP— As this race will not be run till November next, intending subscribers need not necessarily ap. ply for tickets for somo months from, this date in any Melbourne Cup consultation. ALFRED A. CAMERON. Office: London Chambers, Princess street South ; or, Box 251, Dunedin. Agent at Greymouth : Mb A. W. Yibrall. I Tramway. I S^ RE YMO UTH AND KUM AKA TRAM* I WAY COMPANY, LIMITED. I TRAMS will leave Groymouth and K« I mara respectively as under :— I Monday ... 8 a,m ... _ _ 3-30 p.m ■ Tuesday ... 8 a.m _ 3.30 p.m ■ Wednesday ... 8 a.m ... . . m 3 30 p jn' H Thursday ... Bam 3.30 p.m ■ Friday . M Ba.m _3.30p.m I Saturd- y _ 8 a.m ... M .. 3.30 p.n ■ SUNDAY TRAMS. I Leave Greymouth ... 8 a.m and 2.30 p.m I Lepve Knmara .„ ... 8 a.m and 2. 30 p.m I Goodß Freight, 35s per 20001 b. ■ WM. A. BEATON I SeoreUry. H Literature ■ TJIE I WEEKLY AKGTJSI FRIDAY, 3rd JUNE. I Price - - 6d. I CONTENTS i- I M r Fit zGerakt's Address H Telegrama Arrival of the San Francisco ItfaH H Latest Unpublished Cablegrams frcsi^| Australian Papers Australian News Correspondence — A Word to the Poor Man Paroa Hospital Committee Eumara . JHonor to Whom Honor is Dae The Seventeen-mile Rush County Contracts The Overland Mail Servioe Roads and Bridges Kelson Creek Tonka's Sweep Shipping— Arrivals and Departures Imports j^H Shipping Items Shipping Telegrams The Tararua Disaster A Casualty of the Sea Commercial — Customs' Revenue Reeftoa Mining Notes Editorials— The Grny Valley Election Cablegrams — . '^^H British and Foreign Australian News Grey County Couocil Educational Matters— The Hokitiki^^| Deputation Naval and Military Engineering Disastrous Egyptian Expedition I^^H The Law Relating to Cheques 'Local and General New South Waleß Register of Wrecks The Boerß &c., &c, &o. And ALL TRE NEWS OF THE WEEK To be hftd of »11 bookfiAHnm PR I JSf T 1 JS - GREY RITER AKG US OFFICB'^H