[PET PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.]

West Coast Times, Issue 2326, 11 September 1876, Page 2

[PET PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.]

Reefton, Sep. 9. The Banks here have on hand nearly ten thousand ounces of gold for escort.

Large numbero of miners and others are departing for the Kumara rush on the strength of private advices received from that place. Numbers of men who were unable to obtain passages in the coach, left to-day for Greymouth on foot.

Invercahgull, Sep. 9.

Roberts played a game of 750 up with Cowan, a local amateur, yesterday afternoon, giving him 450. The players were both at 657, and Roberts ran out when the amateur was 684, winning by 66. He afterwards played three games of pyramids with the same player, when the champion got only one game out of three. In the evening he played Manson, giving him 600 out 1000. Roberts played badly, having been on a " rabbitting " excursion in the foienoon, and was knocked up. Manson was in capital form, and when the game was called the score stood, Manson, 1000 ; Roberts, 594.

Dunedin, Sep. .9.

Mr Keogh made a violent attack from the stage, last night, on the Guardian and News. A warm reply is given in the News this evening.

Argument for a writ for release of C. B Hau«hton, was heard by Justice Williams, to-day. The grounds of the rule were that the warrant was wrong in form, and that the Justices had not ac ed in accordance with the act. His Honor said the warrant was bad in form, hut if the prisoner was discharged upon that warrant, he would grant another for his deteution. He decliued to interfere with the discretion of

Justices in not allowing bail, so that as no purpose would be served by obtaining the writ, the rule was discharged without costs.

Westpoet, Sept. 9.

A board seven feet long, painted blue, with gilt letters, CEBBOTD, has been picked up near Cape Foulwifld. It bas evidently been a part of some vcasel, and been a long time in the water.