IN AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17250, 18 August 1916, Page 8

IN AUSTRALIA.

RACINCANDTHE WAR.,

HELPING PATRIOTIC FUNDS

QUESTION OF CURTAILMENT.

By Telegraph—Pre*» Association—Copyright SYDNEY, August 17.

At the annual meeting of the Australian Jockey Club it was announced that last year the prize-money had been reduced by nearly £6OOO in order to provide a larger sum for patriotic purposes. It will he further reduced this year. The chairman said the club took up the attitude that tho curtailment of racing during wartime was a question primarily for the Government, and not the club. If the Government took the matter in hand, and treated everybody alilco, there would he no objection on the part of registered clubs, but the club was not inclined to curtail tho racing of registered clubs unless the pruuing-knifo was applied all round, and unregistered clubs were also curta’led. Ho, stated that the Jockey Club’s admission money had been £3OOO more than during the previous year, in spite of tho war, whereas it was anticipated that there would have been a reduction of 20 per cent- Besides the £4500 in hand, it was proposed to give £IO,OOO to patriotic funds during the coming year.

LACK OF SECRECY.

KITCHENER’S MOVEMENTS WELL KNOWN.

AN AUSTRALIAN’S STATEMENT.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received August 17, 7.30 p.m.)

MELBOURNE, August 17

Mr P. W. Tewkesbury, returned from a trip abroad, states that while in London, two days before Lord Kitchener was drowned, ho was in the same hospital as Lord Kitchener’s valek The latter told him that a number _of persons were going to Russia with Lord Kitchener. Mr Tewkesbury was surprised and shocked at the want of secrecy concerning Lord Kitchener’s movements. It was also generally rumoured in London that the Arabic was carrying a large quantity of bullion, and subsequently it was contended that that was the reason she was torpedoed.