LATE SPORTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 8

LATE SPORTING.

PONY AND GALLOWAY 1 MEETING. The first day's events of the Wellington Pony and Galloway Racing Club's May meeting will be decided at Miramar to-morrow afternoon. Good acceptances have been received for the leading fixtures. It is specially notified that ladies are admitted free, and that there jjfill be a special tram eervice.

- The Rotorua Times of Tuesday reports that whilst shooting in the Mamaku bush on Saturday, Mr. Sibley, an employee at one of the mills, had one of his hands shattered by the accidental discharge- of his gun, while his hand was resting on the muzzle. He ■was brought into Rotorua, and the hand operated upon. The doctors hope to be able to avoid amputation. Mr. J. A. Thomson, New Zealand Bfoodes Scholar, who was appointed lecturer in biology and demoustrator in biology at Victoria College, had, before the appointment was offered t,o him, accepted an appointment to the staff of fjbe Geological Snrvey in West Australia. It was, therefore, impossible for him to fill the position, to which Mi. C. A. Cotton, director of the Coromandel School of Mines, has since been appointed. The leading contents of the May issue