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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 39, 17 February 1919, Page 8

Winners at Egmont have incurred the following penalties at Wanganui : — Stewards' Handicap, one mile and ,110 yards—Waimatao (71b) 9.0, Marqueteur (71b) 7.7, Paddington Green (71b) 7.0. Petre Hack Handicap; six furlongsAfterglow (71b) 10.10, Metallum (71b) 8.1, White Ranger (71b) 7.9, Jutland (71b) 7.7.> - Westmere Hurdles—Paraoa (101b) 12.6J Wiritoa Hack Handicap, one mile and 110 yards—Afterglow (71b) 10.10, Paddington Green (71b) 9.0/ Perfect Day .(71b) 8.6, Spinifix (71b) 7.7. Flying Handicap, six furlongs, Waimatao (71b) 8,11, Birkenvale (71b) 7.9.

Mr. F. 0. Weine, of Wellington,' owner of Arch Lassie, has won the Waikato Trotting Cup two years in succession with Lieutenant.

Is Sir Arthur Quiller Couch right (asks the London Daily Chronicle) in accusing the British pubic of looking with suspicion on literary men in politics? Peel, we know, thought Gladstone would ruin his career unless he abandoned writing; but a large section of the electorate evidently thought none the less of Disraeli for his brilliant, excursions into novel writing; and. what public .man of recent times has been more generally esteemed and trusted than Lord Morley, who was, of course, a professional literateur before and after entering politics. Many another literary man has found enough support to enter Parliament. Whose fault has it been if they have failed to>"make good"?

Information has been received regarding the accident which resulted^ in the death of Mr. E. D. O'Rqrke last December in England, pf which fact the bare result was cabled at the time. By recent mail a letter came to hand stating that the accident occurred at the remount depot, Melton-Mowbray, England. Mr. O'Korke was trying a mare over a small jump, which she at first refused,. and at the second attempt slipped and crossed her feet, came down and rolled over her rider, who had no chance of being thrown clear. The doctor 'in attendance said an operation was necessary. He called the specialist from Leicester, but the operation showed them at once that nothing could be done. .A muscle on the middle of the spine had been torn, and there had been hemorrhage from the first, and no operation xjould have saved him. He was buried at a little pHce called Syston, close to the depot. Tho bearers were non-coms, from the depot, and the War Office.was represented by General Birbeck, head of the remount depot.

The Auckland Star mentions that a case of honesty bfeing well rewarded occurred recently at the front. A soldier (Private E. J. Bogue, of Waiukui, walking along the road, found a wallet, and on opening it found there were notes to the value of £100. The name on the papers inside was that of a lieutenant then serving with a division close to where the soldier was billeted. Bogus took the wallet round to the lieutenant, who gave him £10 as a reward, and also three weeks' leave.