TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XVI, Issue 20225, 17 April 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

r— • n y k-l i era *c ■'■' i.ku ra v u Peb United Pbess Association. __ Richmond, 15. About 700 people visited the ground. Hurdle Race. Oceola, Hat 1 Orient, lOat 71bs ... 2 Jack, lOat lOlbs 8 Oiyde also started aud came in first, but was disqualified for running round a hurdle. Totalisator, £226; div., \m 10a. Time, 3.5. • Waiiuea Plate, Torpedo, 9«t 7lbs ... 1 Dollar, Bst 71b 2 Christmas "Rose, 6s( 4lbs 3

Four stated. Good race between first and second horses, Torpedo winning by three-quarters of a length, { Christmas Rose being only a few j inches behind Dollar. Totalisator, £215} div., £1 12s. Time, 2.16 2-sths. Selling Hack Race. ] Steam 1 Toby 2 Only two horses started, Steam winning easily. Steam was sold after the rao.e to Thomas Harley for £20. No time taken. Richmond Park Handicap. Torpedo... 1 Victory 2 Marohal Neil ... . ... 3 Time 2.15 3.6ths. Div., £2. New Plymouth, 10. The court gave its decision in the Wanaka enquiry to-day. The ju£#i mentfwhich was r a very lengthy-one, Teyit-ws •the-wiiol^e.viUenc^ It* considers Oaptain Meades "committed an error of judgment in not slowing down and keeping her head more to at a, nlso in cot hpaviug the lead when iv a thick haze and approaching laud, but the court considered that Neither cap* tain nor first officer were -guilty of negligence and could not take upou itself to say whether the accident whs caused by steering or the attraction of an iron-«and coast or currents, but would report the matter to th» Marnif department for further enquiry into it. The court would represent to Go vernment ttvh v necessity there was for strouger lights beiug plaoed at New Plymouth find distinguishing lights at Waitara. The court returned Captain | Meades and the first officer then certificates but ordered the captain to pay the costs of. the enquiry, estimated at £85, which the captain intends to ask Government to mitigate. Grf.tmouth, 16. A section of the Grey« Hokitika Railway has been laid off for the Greymouth unemployed aud another section lia* been laid ofi for the Kumara unemployed. In a few days another will be laid ofi for the Hokitika unemployed. The men are paid Government schedule rates for earthwork. Westport, 16. Good news still continues to come irom the Beacoiibfield mine. The manager has just reported having struck good gold in the intermediate levol going south. The find is a moat Valuable one, for if it continues it will be a splendid body of stone to work upon, the reef being over three feet wide. Hutt Rackooubse, 16. The weather is cloudy with a strong nor-wester, but there is a fine attendance. r - The course is in good condition but- bwins to the dry weather very hard. Rufus is scratched for both I selling races. Autumn Handicap, r Queen of Trumps ... 1 ' Retina 2 La Petite Fille 3 Won easiiy by two lengths. St. Malo fell. Time, 2.13. Div., 8/11/-. Trial Haudicap. Liquidation 1 Revenge 2 Revolution 3 Won easily. Time, — 1.44. Div. £2 1 8. Ray nor, tider of Revenge, was disqualified for six mouths fur suh> picious riding. Hurdle Handicap. Beggarman 1 Mayboy ... 2 Lone Hand ... ... 3 Won easily. Time,— B.26 l-sth. Div. d6l 17s. Stewards Handicap. St.Mulo... 1 Weka ... 2 British Lion 8 Won by a length. Time,— l.sß. Div. £4 3s. Selling Race. The Land ... ... 1 Peep-Ooday 2 Empress ' -3 Won by three lengths; Tituo 1.16 J. Div. £1 18 a, ' Railway Plate, Red Lion ... ' ... 1 . : Weka 2 La Petite Fille ... ... 3 Won by a length. Time, — 1.17. Div. £5Js. £8,791 passed through tfio mAdhinee. WfLLINQTON, 16. Sir J. Hector says . the cablegrams ftauysf i>e ■|«Br&s'dßi.dßs * : medal in the Koy^ii-Sebgra'p'hrcal- Society iri«& It^isttvke aa he has done, nothing of the kmd. He thinks a probable explanation is that he has been awarded a medal for some geographical lufonua tion he supplied some time ago. The City Council intend to spend £8,000 within the next two yiais and iucrease the water supply from the Wainuiomata.