WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11955, 6 August 1904, Page 9

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

(FBKSS ASSOCIATION' TKI.HJRAM.) WHLLI-NQTOJf, August 6. The Wellington Racine Club hu been offered 231 acro» of flat l*nd. opposite the rifle range at Ttenthim, about lerwrteen milM itow. the «ty. It ii most aaitable for % racecourse. The train rune aJjuoat on to the course. The trip from town occupies between thirty and lorty minute*, and the fVrVMiriU probably be lea than the charge to the present coarse. - A start will be made tdnlay - with .the VJI.T.O. awnd Xatkmal ileetii*. the -pn» Kational fiteepleehase, n«t all raoe* _•* the Natiwml Me«tW. a* notified prewtsly. O&e Otafo luat«a taking put "» *^< ,

I National Meeting are—Blaekstone. Brighton, I Juniper, Victor 11.. Flower o' Clalha, Pipi. I *ed Petrorn*.

A tetegrun from Palmenton North states that nomuuiUon* for the two classic r*cej ot the Jlanswtitu Racing .Club,- to be ran in lW>i and 1300, cosed ,a»t night. For tho First ilanawatu SUkw li>2 hui»ee were entered, uiid 103 lot the second stakes. The principal owners iuc.utie the Hon. J. l>. Orroond, Sir G. Ctiilcrd, Hr Geo. the Wellington Co., the Hon. W. i!cL«&ii. Jilr ll!igo Friedlander, Hr T. H.. Lowry, exj ilessfe Douglas Jdroi. A AVelUngtoa telegram sUtes that the Zealindia. arrived yesterday afternoc/2 trom .Vapier, after an exceedingly rough trip of ■twenty-fire hours. The itfon. J. l>. Oinjoiid s libraes, Kepulso ajid Biiidu:a«ter, Sir Williuni liusieil's Nudactor. ttso Eclair, Kvemng. ilenurn, and severs! trotter?, tuiiig housed on deck, b*u * bad tiuie, heavy teas washing over them. Apparently, however, they were none the worse. Mr Stc-wjrt Waddell narrowly escaped being carried overboard while attending to his charges.