Thtro were also two English horses—namclyv Young Oxford, a line rich bay horse ; and tho grey Inkenaann, once tho champion horse of his year, at the Uoyai Society's show afc Salisbury. lie was offered and bought iir at Ll7», and Young Oxford at L2OO. Amount tho young ones, there were representatives of nearly all our noted sires, but tho beet were generally allowed to bo Sir Benjamin and Sir Duncan, out of imported niarcs, by Ben Lomond. There was also a very active, compact, and strung son of Renfrew, Sir Colin, and a young Marquis, son of Mr Brown's Marquis—by Prince Charlie—now away to Xcw Zealand, but never beaten here except by Dan O'Connell- -said to bo the beat Colonial colt ever exhibited, and which promised to equal, if not excel, his sire." A large store in Hokitika. erected by Messrs Stevenson and Co. nearly eighteen months ago, and latterly used as a warehouse- by Messrs James Chcsney and Co., has met with an untimely end a few days ago by falling off the piks that supported it. Un able to withstand the pressure of nt»ily four hundred tons of goods (chk-dy bran and Hour) which bad been crammed into the store, the piles gave way, and down came the building with a crash, one of tho sides being burst out. and so much damage in- UicUd upoh every part of the edilice, that it was reduced to a perfect wreck. Hamilton street was strewed with bales of chaff and bags of flour and bran ; aud but far the late lovely weather which has converted that I usually swampy thorougWaro into solid dry land, the loaa through damage must have been considerable. As it is, says the llV*t (,'uait Tiiutx, Mr Chesney will bo a heavy i loser, the reconstruction of the store being ! unavoidable, and where its contents will I find shelter in the meantime is a ques tion not easily answered, as storcagc room is one of the scarcest commodities in town just now. Tho extent to which kangaroos increase on some of the Australian sheep stations, thus occasioning a serious nuisance to tho shccpowiicrs, is very remarkable. 