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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5007, 13 February 1878, Page 2

ITrom tub Press AeBNOY.I NEW PLYMOUTH, February 12. The following are the nominations for tho Taranaki Jockey Club races : Taranaki Jockey Club Handicap.— Rowe's Opawa ; Chadwick and Belcher's Folly ; Stockman's Otawa, 5 yrs ; Vavasour's Gang Forward, 4 yrs ; George's Resolution, 5 yrs ; Lyons' Tamatea, 4 yrs ; Lyons' Uria, 5 yrs ; Hendley'a Flora M'Donald, 5 yrs ; Hendley's Tamouri, 4 yrs ; Hayward's Kakapo, aged ; Boucher's Doncaster, 4 yrs; Walter's Kingfisher, aged.

Handicap Hurdle Race. — Brewer's Gazelle, aged ; Paul's Supple-jack, aged ; Lyons' Uria, 5 yrs ; Boucher's Septimus, aged.

Autumn Handicap. — Rowe's Opawa, aged ; Rowe's Sky-blue, 3 yrs ; Chadwick and Belcher's g g Folly, aged ; Durie's Luna, 3 yrs ; Stockman's Otawa, 5 yrs ; Vavasour's Gang Forward, 4 yrs ; George's Resolution, 5 yrs; Baker's Flora, aged; Lyons' Tamatea, 4 yrs; Lyons' Uria, 5 yrs ; Hehdley'a Flora M 'Donald, 5 yrs ; Hendley's Tamouri, 4 yrs ; Hayward's Kakapo, aged ; Hayward's Ouida, 5 yrs ; Boucher's Doncaster, 4 yrs ; Walter's Kingfisher, aged. HOKITIKA, February 12. David Cruickshank pleaded guilty in the R.M. Court to-day to having an illicit still in. his possession. He was fined £100, or six months' imprisonment. Several miles of beach are strewed with small fish near Okarito. The cause is unknown. Hundreds of tons of fish were thrown ashore.

OAMARU, February 12. 1 The following nominations have been p received for the North Otago Turf Club races, which take place on the 11th and 12th March :—

North Otago Turf Cup Handicap. — Blue Peter, Unknown, Hippocampus, Oberon, Cloth of Gold, Chancellor, Ariel, Bribery, Maritana, Fishhook, Undine, Jangler, Templeton, Titania, Bide-a-wee, Pungawerewere.

Tradesmen's Handicap. — Blue Peter, Jack the Flat, Foul Play, Cracroft, Hippocampus, Isaac Walton, Chancellor, Ariel, Longlands, Bribery, Fishhook, Boot-tyre, Templeton, Titania, Pungawerewere, Merrilee. Handicap Hurdle Race. — Eclipse, Blue Peter, Theodore, Exile, Kildare, Banjo, Merry Monarch, Shark, Shillelah, Grey Momus.

Publicans' Handicap. — Blue Peter, Foul Play, Unknown, Oberon, Hippocampus, Cloth of Gold, Chancellor, Ariel, Longlands, Bribery, Maritana, Fishhook, Luna, Undine, Jangler, Templeton, Titania, Bide-a-wee, Punga were were, Merrilee.

Flying Handicap.— Blue Peter, Jack the Flat, Foul Play, Mistake, Isaac Walton, Oberon, Chancellor, Ariel, Longlands, Bribery, Lima, Fishhook, Tyro, Jangler, Templeton, Titania, Bide-a-wee, Pungawerewere, Merrilee.

TAURANGA, February 12. To-day the telephone was tried by Floyd, electrician, through a resistance equal to seven hundred miles of perfectly unsuitable wire, with entire success. The sound reached the receiving instruments distinctly, though a little fainter than when it only travelled through a few yards of wire.

WELLINGTON, February 12. A large number of Maoris have assembled at the Wairarapa to meet Sir George Grey, who has promised to address them on political matters between now and Thursday.

A deputation of Wellington citizens waited on the Premier this morning with an address signed by 800 Wellington citizens requesting him to address them, and state the intention of the Government next session at his earliest convenience. He promised to do so on Thursday evening next.

The Hon. W. B. Rhodes, M.L.C., died last night, aged 70 years.

Guthrie and Larnach have purchrsed a frontage in Grey-street for £100 per foot.

Bolton, the owner of Lara, has sold him with all engagements, to Stevens, of Wanganui, for £450.

Twelve hundred extra salmon were liberated in the Hutfc river yesterday. Marshall Wood leaves by the Waikatipu to-day en route for England. The stewards of the Wellington Jockey Club paid away the following sums when settling up with the winners :— Bolton, owner of Lara, £427 10s ; R. Ray, £261 5s ; D. Fraser, £209 ; D. Campion, £99 15s ; Hayward, £95 ; Gilligan, £61 15a ; Heaton. £47 10s ; Redwood, £47 10s. All the other sums paid were under £20. It is expected that the branch railway to the racecourse will be completed before the next races.