RACES AT GISBORNE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 21 October 1891, Page 8

RACES AT GISBORNE.

(BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

There was a good attendance at the Spring Meeting of the Poverty Bay Turf Club held on the new course at Makaraka. The weather was delightful. Results :— Maiden Plate. Stockfish 1 Pekapu ... ... ... ••. ••• 2 Beanley ... ... ••• ••■ ••• 3 Herbert's Heseam also ran. Stockfish beat Pekapu after a good contest in the straight. Time, 2min 15 4-sth sec. Dividend, £3 15e. Hack Scue,ry. Hunka Munka , Dividend, £2 12s. Spking Handicap. Brigand .... 1 Zanzibar ... .« ••• ••• ••• 2 Avis 3 Pouawa, Wakatipu, Pani, Fitzjames also started. Brigand won rather easily by a length and a-half. Time, 2oiin 44£ sec. Dividend, £5 Bs.

In response to a request) for information to be furnished to the Northern Railway League, Mr A. Kidd this morning received the following telegram from the Native Minister :— " Acting-Engineer-in - Chief not yeb returned to Wellington. I have asked '.Mr T. Thompson, M.H.R., to let you have the information furnished him. After, perusal of thafc, if you will write me fully what other details you require, I'll get them for you as soon as possible.— (Signed) A. J. Cadman." The following telegram has been sent by Mr J. M. Shera, M.H.R., to the Minister for Works: " Railway League formed here—non party. Intense feeling in favour of the Stratford route. We want to know if you will postpone contract for the Mokahine viaduct until the League have ventilated the matter. Also expression of opinion of Northern members." No reply has yet been received to this communication.

Mr Philip Mennell, who is making a tour of the Australasian colonies as the special correspondent of the London " Daily Chronicle," arrived in Auckland this morning from Wellington, where he met Mr Budyard Kipling: on his arrival there last Sunday. Mr Mennell landed in Tasmania about the middle of April last, and has since visited all the colonies of the Australian group, with the object of eliciting the views of the leading public men on Federation, the relations of the colonies to the mother country, and the recent labour developments. These ho has embodied in a series of letters, "which are now appearing in the " Chronicle," and whicli ib is his intention to republish in book form later on. Mr Mennell starts on hie return to Wellington on Friday nexb, as ib is liia intention to pail for England iv the Kaikoura on the 31st ins b. Mr Goorgo McDonald, of the Juvenile Opera Company, reburnedtq-day from the Thames, where he had been arranging for a short season. The Grsb performance was given last night, whon the Academy of Music was crammed to suflbcation. Mascottn war. produced. The season of three a-- reduced prices commences here