The .Victoria League concert party gave a very successful entertainment at the Trentham camp last evening. Song 6, recitations, and choruses, all of uie most popular kind, brought enthusiastic encores, and when the programme cams to an end the party was requested to give ten more items by the audience. But the pleasantest evenings como to an end, and the evergreen "Tipperary" was followed by- "God Save the King." After supper tho concert party left ths camp in motor-cars provided by patriotio friends.
The Pahiatuiwwned Saltation was successful in winning tho Lewis Cup in the high jump competition at tho Eko tahuna. Show on Anniversary day. The same horse was placed second in tho leaping competition, hunting style. Sloppy Sam, who is owned by a Manga* mairo sportsman, recoiyed a similar award in the maiden jumping event, while Lady, who hails from the Mangamaire district, received third prize in Eho ladies' hack section.
At the competition for the world's typewriting championship, held at Toronto, Miss Owen, of New York, the holder of the title, maintained her supremacy, writing 125 words a minute for half an hour.
Messrs. Gilchrist and Kidd. Palrocrs+on Norfth, liave MOO acres of grazing land far ealo, n '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2368, 26 January 1915, Page 6
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