QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 9 July 1872, Page 5

QUEENSTOWN.

( From our own Correspondent. ) Jillv G, 1872. The new Town Hall was opened on Thursday evening last by a grand Concert, followed the next evening by a Ball. The concert was beyond measure the im st successful ever given in Queenstown, —the programme provided being unusually good, and the audience unusually large. The choruses were sung by the most numerous choir yet heard here, who did full justice to the painstaking care bestowed upon them by the conductor, Mr Albert Eichardt, who deserves great praise for his exertions to render the concert a success. The audience seemed thoroughly to enjoy the musical treat provided for them, and showed their appreciation by vigorous encores. All the performers acquitted themselves with great credit, the members of the Brass Band among the number. The Mayor, Mr Bendix Halleustcin, M.H.R., declared the Hall open in a very able and well-chosen speech, delivered after the overture ; and before the National Anthem was sung, the Rev. R. Colley returned thanks to the performers and to the large audience who had attended to celebrate the event. Mr Macklin, the new' schoolmaster, has entered upon his duties. .Judging from the fact that the number of scholars lias been , doubled since his arrival, he must be giving very general satisfaction. The old “ Wakatip” steamer is not yet landed on ter, a Jirm i , though she is now so close to the shore that her decks are plainly 1 visible. I Taking a leaf out of another of your corrcsj pendents’ books, I will, before closing this I letter, endeavour to give some idea of the | horses entered for our Town Plate, (or rather 1 Chair,) and their respective chances. At ! present there are only three entries, —Garryi owen, Slow-Coach, and Kleptomania ; Har- : monious Blacksmith’s owners having declined Ito enter him. All three may be put down as ; “ aged ” in town matters ; but Gariy owen is | the only one that has run before, having put j in a bad second at last year’s meeting, since | which time ho has been carefully training. 1 Kleptomania, who as a rule clears his jumps when steeplechasing very neatly, has latterly had one or two bad falls. He cannot be de- ! pended on, and will probably refuse to start | unless doctored with a few nips of “ poison.” Whilst training, Slow-Coach has considerably j improved, and being in good hands will nc I doubt “astonish the natives” when it come; ; to straight running. I may here remark he ! is the only horse free from blemishes, which i fact will no doubt toll in the long run. Gar- : ryowen, who was first favourite for some time, is gradually taking a second place with betting men, having only last week come on his knees whilst exercising. Should he recovei before the event comes off, we shall probably have an exciting race. The odds are as follows : —Garryowen—3 to 2 agst ; Slow-Coaci —level betting ; Kleptomania— nowhere.