A large number of sheep aie being sent here from Canterbury and Otago; (mother large train from Deborah station, Oamaru, had 1,520 sheep aboard last night

To the Editor : Sir,—ln reference to Mr Walker's challenge which appealed in your issue of Friday last, allow us to state in reply that we offered about three weeks since to run him on the 2Gth inst., (as the then owner of Loafer appeared so anxious to make a match) on the Ohaupo course, welter weight for age, for £100 a cide and arc quite ready to do so at any Reasonable time after the Auckland Autumn niccllns steeplechase with the promise of £50 to }»o to the Kaifan^ala Relief Fund.— Yours'.tc.,-J & \V. UUTlHCßroltn.
tltE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1879.
