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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 213, 7 September 1900, Page 8

The programme for the Annual Spring- Meeting- of the Auckland Cycling- Club, which takes place, on October 27th, contains a varied list of events, all of which are liberally endowed with prize money. For the Amateur Maiden Handicap, a. first prize of £f 7/ is offered, whilst the first prize in the Amateur Wheel Race is £10. The Wheel Race for cash riders is worth £20. A number of other cycle events, tag-ether with pedestrian, novelty, and fire brigade items, g-o to make up a most: interesting programme. Entries for all events close on Saturday, October 13th, at the Auckland Cycling- Club Rooms, Upper Pitt Street). There was a fair attendance at Mr Thornes Auction Mart to-day, when the following- properties were sold: — 196 acres (Waiuku), 8/G per acre; 6 acres (Pura Pura), £5 15/; 50 acres (Whangainaru), Lot 91, 3/6 per acre; 80 acres (Whang'amaru), Lot! 117, 3/ per acre; 45 acres (Mong-onui), 1/ per acre. For the 13i acres at Hillsbrough, £570 was offered, at which price it was withdrawn. In the village of Bodra a Turk named Ismail, aged 120 years, is in such good health that he frequently walks to Bartin, a six hours' distance, to sell egg's, for he is a poultry farmer. He "has had thirty-four wives, the last of whom he married only a few days ago. The bride is sixty years Ms junior, and the marriage was celebrated with much solemnity, to the sound of drums and fifes and of volleys from firearms. The whole village was en fete. The wedding procession included all the male progeny of the patriarch bridegroom, consisting of one, hundred and forty sons,- grandsons and great-grandsons. The number of his female progeny is mot stated.