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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 100, 7 May 1901, Page 3

The best Arab in India is Prince Charlie, who is only a pony, and a Bombay writer say that good Arab ponies can beat the class of Arab horses now imported. He adds ; “ IVc cry out at the poor class imported, but the question of vital importance is, Is there a better class available? The great efforts made in Arabia to breed ponies for India has, it is feared, dwarfed the Arab horse, and big horses are very few and far between. The second dealers' plate has been revived, aud it remains to be seen whether its reinstatement will result in a _ better class of Arabs being imported. This year, certainly, despite the fact that the dealers had ample notice of the race being restored, the field consisted of ponies, and Victory, who later won the Melton Stakes for ponies, annexed the stakes.” The news from Utah that the Legislature of the" State had passed a Bill on March 11 which would operate practically for the protection of polygamy aroused considerable surprise and indignation, which were quieted only when Governor Wells vetoed it on’ the 14th. The Bill provided that no prosccutionQmder existing law shall bo Instituted except on complaint of the husband or #fe or near I relative of a person accused. “Ho clearer I evasion of the State constitution by which polygamous or piural marriages are forever prohibited could have been devised, j says the Hew York Evening Post; and the Salt Lake Tribune declares that the object of the measure was simply to “ gradually restore and continue polygamy,” and was a “shameless” breach of faith. Governor Wells, in vetoing the Bill, said that he yielded to no one in his affection for those of his people who “from the-highest motives and because they believed it a divine commandment ” entered into the relation of plural marriage, but he gave it as his opinion that the' present Bill “holds opt only A false hope of protection,'and in offering a phantom relief to a few it in reality invites a deluge of discord and disaster upon all.’’— Literary Digest,