LATEST FROM MELBOURNE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 95, 19 October 1906, Page 6

LATEST FROM MELBOURNE.

(Received October 19, 11.49 a.m.) FLEMINGTON, This Day. Czarovitch beat Bon Grafton over ten. furlongs in 2min 16sec. ' Lord Fitzroy covered a circuit. Emir has retired from the turf. Collarit is reported to be 'lame. The betting is almost confined to Solution, who is quoted at 4 to 1, and Posiedon, 3i to 1. Both have been strongly supported. Eight to 1 has been taken that they will run first and second. Booran and Demos are firm at 10 to 1 each. Lord Fitzroy is quoted at 25 to 1, and Willy-Wally 30 to 1, Czarovitch 14 to 1,. Simoda, Mira, Bairn and Melodeon 20 to 1. For the Derby 7 to 4 is quoted for PoSied6ri," 4 to 1 Booran, 5 ' to 1 _Collarit, 7to 1 lolare, and-10- to 1 Ebullition.

The Inspector of Weights and Measures, Constable Green, .proceeded in the , Magistrate's Court before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., thia morning, against three Johnsonvple bakers, charging them with having sdld unstamped French loaves of bread Each defendant pleaded guilty. John Eson and William Angell were each fined 20s, with 7s cos,t6, and William Cook was fined a similar amount, j with 9s costs. The crowding home from the Labour' Day. picnic at Day's Bay on 10th October was a factor in a case heard before Dr. A. M' Arthur, S.M., to-day, when Alexander Godfrey,, a baker, was charged with having behaved -in a threatening manner on tho Main-road at 1 , the' Bay with intent to provoke a breach of the peace. Constable Fairhall deposed that {he defendant, a stoutly-built man, was pushing his way through the crowd when a, man called out to him, "Give the women and children a chance !" The defendant replied : "You shut up. I am going through." With that he crushed the women and children against a' barrier. Another constable gave similar evidence The defendant, who was represented by Mr. Wilfor'd, denied, the allegations, and explained that he was an official at tho picnic, and that part of 'his duties were I to look after the children's toys and ' the children's races. At this stage the proceedings were adjourned until tomorrow to enable tho defendant to call a, witness. On Saturday last the Wellington Homing Pigeon Society flew a race from New Plymouth, an air-lino measurement of 170 miles. Thirteen lofts were represented by seventy-two birds. The race, which was for a trophy presented by Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, resulted as follows : ■ — Mr. E. J. Sapsford's No. 31 (velocity 1132 yards per minute), 1 : Mr. J. H. Clark's D'Nil (1130 yds), 2 ; Mr. W. Bailey's No. 3 (1118 yds), 3 ; Mr. A. Clark's Stronghold (1111 yds), 4 ; Mr. C. Haynes'a Surpriso (1110 yds), 5. The Rev, Father Lynch, of Dunedin, and tho Rev. Father Lowham, of Western Australia, have arrived in Wellington, and for the future. will bo located! here. ' Mr. Joh E. Lindbcrg, draper, Cuba* street, announces more now goods ax s.s. lonic, to. be .offered at hit iftlajo.-jaftrrow.j