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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIX, Issue 3652, 9 February 1881, Page 2

MONJSJ TO LEND. ANY sum required wp to £20,000. Interest, from 7J to 8 per cent. Borrowers have now a special opportunity, nnd those with properties already mortgaged to Loan Societies, aud others at far highor rates, with power to pay off same, may effect a highly advantageous exchange. CHAS. POVVNALL & Co . OKI tc Wellington. Mr. W. FT. S X 10 fiT SURGEON DENTIST, Devon street. [Adjoining the Bank of New Zealand.] Mr. Skeet will return to New Plymouth about the end of February. 53 tc

A telegraph station is now open at the onstabulary camp, Rahotu. The Borough Council met last evening, but we have to hold over our report until tomorrow. We have been 1 requested to state that Mr. It-Tine's lecture has been postponed from tomorrow till Friday evening. We have advice by telegram that the A.C. Sports, at Pungarehu, have been postponed until Saturday, the 19th instant. The Hon. Mr. Rolleston is reported as being expected to visit the Waimate Plains in the course of nex,t week, ( The Horn Major Atkinson, we hear, is expected in Tarana'H to-morrow. He returned to Wellington from the South on Friday last by the Arawata. We regret to leai-n that he sustained a slight ,sprain of the ankle during his Southern tour, from the effects' of Which he is still snffering, and which compelled him to shorten his journey considerably. We hear that, a prospecting party is starting to search foj gold between Taranaki and Waikato. They propose going inland from Mokau or Awakino. The party is. headed by a well-known Thames prospector named Barry. They say they have the permission of the Government. On Sunday morning at 10 o'cloik considerable interest was maniEested by persons on the beach in what appeared to be a race between two schooners off the roadstead. The schooners were bound for Waitara, and singularly enough, made the Sngar Loaves within a few minutes of each other, and so closely vrere they sailing together, that they presented every appearance of the " finish " in a crack yacht race. The mancßuvring oE the vessels 'showed that the skippers were on the alert, and were exercising their best judgment to cut the course as fine as possible. The leading schooner went round the Lion Rock with not over much room to spare, while the second Tessel shaped her course between the Lion Rock and'Mikotahi, in the endeavour to gain on the leading one. This manoeuvre was only partially successful, as the wind lulled, and the sails flapped in the lee of the Lion Rock, and the distance gained was not of any appreciable extent. A few minutes later, and the wind hauled round to the westward, and n "spanking" breeze came out. The vessels, with all sail set, bounding merrily along, and contesting every inch closely, could not but attract attention, although it was purely an accidental race— if race it were. The vessels kept well together until out of sight, and although loaded to the deep lead line, they were evidently both of equal % sailing capacity. We need scarcely say that we heard of no betting oa tbc event 1