MAIL NOTICE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 756, 16 March 1878, Page 2

MAIL NOTICE.

Mails close at this office as under :— For Duuedin, via Waitahuna, Waitahuna Gully, Manuka Creek, OJenore, C^rksville, MiltoD, and all offices between Milton and Dunedin, three times daily, at 10 a.m. 2.50 and 9 p.m. The mail, which has hitherto been closed at 9 p.m., on Saturday, will in future not be closed till 5 p.m. jon Sunday. For Blue Spur and Wetherstones daily at 5 p .m. For Evans Flat, Beaumont, Horseshoe Bend, Millers Mat, Roxburgh, Coal Creek, Bald Hill Flat, Manuherikia, Clyde, Cromwell and all offices beyond Cromwell every' Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at noon. For Tapanui every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at 9 p.m. For Tuapeka Mouth, every Saturday, at 1 p.m. For Waipori, every Thursday, at 3 p m. F. FALCK, I Postmaster. ' Post Office, Lawrence. The New Zealand Blondin, whose feats of daring have recently been chronicled in the Canterbury papers, made his appearance in the Temperance Hall, % Dunedin, a few evenings ago. His feats are' described as an imitation of those performed by the original Blondin, and his skill and intrepidity are acknowledged to be something wonderful. Commenting on the scratching of Eclipse for the hurdle race at the recent Oamaru meeting, and for which he was backed to win a considerable sum of money by the public, the "Evening Mail" says:— "When it is taken into consideration that the horse was brought to Oamaru to run for this race alone, and when it is known that at the time he was scratched he was fit and well, and, if he ran, the race was a ' moral ' to him provided he kept on his legs, then the ' scratching ' of Eclipse is alike discreditable to his owner, no matter who he is, and the whole proceeding is a standing disgrace to the men who bought him over, and is calculated to make the name of 'bookmaker ' synonymous with roguery and swindling. We heartily hope that next time the owner of Eclipse enters the horse for the Oamaru races the bandicapper will remember the 'Eclipse episode' of 1878, and thus show that those entrusted with the the management of affairs of tre North Otago Turf Club know how to treat men who run their horses for stakes and men who allow themselves to be bribed by a set of racecourse cormorants, vrho grow rich at the expense of that ever guileless lamb— a confiding public."