TRENTHAM RACES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 179, 15 July 1911, Page 8

TRENTHAM RACES.

WINTER MEETING. Trcntham. July 15. The Wellington Racing Club s meeting was opened to-day in fine weather. There is a fair attendance. The going is soft. Results: Stewards’ Handicap.—Negative i. Dogger Bank 2. Wauehope 3. Scratched : Effort. Iney. First Consul, JJanwern. Peary, and Odessa. Won by a good length. Time. Imiu 3Hsec. Miramar Handicap.— Epsom Lass 4. Undecided 2. Gold Circle 3. Scratched: Sam Pan, Merrie Goer, and Fleet Week. Won by half a length. Time. Jmin 38 1 -Ssec. Hack Hunters’ Steeplechase. — Hoanga L Lerent 2. St. Albert 3. Scratched : Rosegrove. Prospector. St. Amelia. Plough. Rongotea, Jack. Royal Guard. D'Nil. ( apt. Jingle fell. Time, smin 5 3-ssec. Parliamentary Handicap.—El'ctrakoff 1. Wimmera 2. Merrie Z-ri-land 3. Scratched: Flitaway, !• relax, Ariom. Cork, and Seaweed. A good race. Won by a neck : four lengths dividing second ami third.

Caller (to bank manager): I want to see you aoout an overdraft’.’ Manager : Yes : bow much do you want.’” Caller <hri ghtly): “How much have you got

Arrangements have been made by the Victorian State authorities for the purchase of tv o further areas of private land in South Gippsland in order to provide land for the production of sugar beets for manufacture at the State factory at Maffra. The total area is I'l.tiOO acres.

The Industrial Workers of the World Club. Sydney, has carried the following resolution: ‘That the I.W.W. Club enters its most emphatic protest against the attempt, in the name of Labour, to continue the pernicious principle of compulsory arbitration, and particularly protests against the coercive penal provisions of the Industrial Arbitration Bill now before the N.S. W. Parliament. The-rfgfit and power to strike is admittedly the strongest weapon of the workers to resist aggression and obtain better working conditions.” - ’

“If we may be allowed’to do so without appearing to poke our nose into other people’s business, we should like- to express a hope that when Mr. Massey returns to Christchurch he will see tor himself that a proper opportunity is given to the general public to sit in judgment on the case he has i,o submit to the electors. He is too good a sportsman in politics to wish to address a ‘hole-and-corm r' meeting, and his friends will do well cn LI, m xt visit to subhiit their plans for his approval.”“Lyttelton Times."

What wore rtf* rred to as typical examples of !,><■.d■ houses of the “jrrry b>..l:“ * .... reported -upon b> ths- jh-.om.rh Ergimmr ar the t -’tt of th-> Hutt R, ir nush I'uuiivu. inter a.i... ii..:’ “T’e--studs, to and r.:ifters were 75 ■* -ay. bark shows on ”111.0--: every p-ece in the Lt;ik of tC scantlings arc sr.oi-f ffine*’-- tn »- The r <,:.A Cling fall of km.‘- ami holm. T : - rm --v l- C of fair 0.8. t; < <*. i ;q <iv in short '■ :_r .>. No

vecienet s ami no w:;n; ia d on. After r eon n <- n passel. ;!>.> eoill'i-d <‘ r <•* i :.. _■. 1< the d’.s-rie; hi abb dffi -; upon the houses *n question under section 201 of the M ini- ip.d Corporations A< t. ,o to wh.t.'n-r the buildings were fit for o<-. :tpati»n. also that the builder lie proei-eded against for breaches of the by-law. as disclosed in the engineer's report.

A Lem fit performance will ingiven next Sunday evening at the Princess Theatre, Hastings, in aid <*f Mrs. Dawson, who, by the recent death of her husband. Las left almost penniless. An appropriate programme of pictures w ill be seremind, and a sacred solo will be rendered by Miss D. Sehattky. The whole of the gross [-tweeds of the performance will ’,>• Landed to Mrs. Dawson, and it to be hoped the public will assist the proprietors of the pictures in helping such ' a deserving case.