SPORTING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 7023, 13 November 1906, Page 2

SPORTING.

ASHBURTON TROTTING CLUB,

Nominations for the Ashburton Trotting Club's Spring Meeting close with the sectary, at Gleuie's Rooms, on Thursday next, at 10 p.m.

Mr John Price, of Tapanui, who left New Zealand m September for North-west Canada, with the intention of locating the rising young oity of Edmonton, Alberta, writes to the Clutha Free Press from the American city of Seattle, Washington. He says he is so far very favourably impressed with the country, which is going ahead by leaps and bounfds, and presents great opportunities m every Hoe. " Have met," adds Mr Price, " several New Zealand men here, who have amassed fortunes m no time." London loafers, according to the police, have their regular clubs. One of these is the "Never Club," the qualification for which is that the members never work. They play cricket m summer, and football m. winter, and livo by fraud and robbery. Three young fellows of the "club," aged 22 to 24, were lately sentenced at the Old Bailey to various terms of imprisonment, the leader's sentence being two years, for burglary, robbery, and forgery. A' similar organisation of criminals bears, or bore, the name of the '• Sons of Rest."