At the Taranaki races Silence (8.13) won the Autumn Handicap, of 125 sovs, one mile and a half, in 2min 4GJsec. Rimu (6.5) was second and Tamora (7.10) third. Dr Matthew Baillie, a celebrated Scotch physician, after listening with much vexation of spirit to the complaints of a lady whose illness was so little felt that she had arranged to go to the opera in the evening, had escaped from the room and was descending the stairs, when he was requested to step back again. " May I, on my return from the opera, eat some oysters?" "Yes, ma'am," was the impaj tient reply—" Shells and all!"
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Evening Star, Issue 7495, 13 April 1888, Page 3
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