Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1903.

Manawatu Herald, 27 January 1903, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1903.

The number of vehicles on the course on the first day was in excess of any previous meeting, there being over forty drawn up by the rails. We never saw so many horses in the horse enclosure previously. The actual amount of money put through the totalisator was £7506 for the first day and for the second day of the Foxton meeting, making £12,865 for the two days, being £3972 more than last year. One of the advantages of a race meeting is the opportunity given of seeing old friends. On the course we came across Mr Macara, well-known in the early days, for the improved coach service he inaugurated between Wanganui and Wellington. We are glad to say he was looking very well, though the past years had whitened his head.

Mr L. Fnrrie won the 100yds and 440yds championships at Wanganui on Thursday. Mr J. launders paid us a visit at the races, and said it was over twenty years since last here. He was the contractor for the Foxton wharf and railway yard, and gave the public a very fine ball at the successful conclusion of the contract. He has just completed the Bull’s bridge. “ I anticipate seeing coal ready for export on the Greymouth wharf from the State coal mine within nine months from the present time, and it will be a tight race between Coal Creek and Seddonville as to which will be in the field with marketable coal.”—The Premier at Westport recently. The Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, will introduce the Adulterated Butter Bill in the House of Commons before Easter.

M. de Blowitz was virtually the European news-editor of The Times, handling all, Continental matter in Paris, and sending it from there. It has been stated in the press that The Times paid him the modest stipend of £xo,ooo per year. The Wanganui Education Board has decided to advertise for applications for position of assistant teacher for the Foxton school.

Two Mr Bailey’s watched the racing with interest. One of these gentlemen worked hard, years ago, to secure the formation of the Carnarvon-San-son Tramway. The price of flour in Auckland has fallen, the Northern Roller Milling Company announcing a reduction from Cl 3 5s per ton to £l2, 15s per ton, less the usual discount.

A warning to grocers is furnished by the narrow escape from poisoning made by a Newtown family the other day, says the Post. A grocer had a cask of vinegar with a leaking tap, and his assistant placed under it a clean galvanised iron bucket to catch the drops. The assistant also supplied a customer with a bottle of vinegar taken from the bucket, but the appearance of the liquid was such (hat the customer and members of her household did not do much more than taste it. They became ill, and analyses 1 made by the Colonial Analyst showed that the vinegar in the cask was all right, but that a sample from the bucket contained zinc in solution through the vinegar having dissolved the metal nt the bucket. The poison was fortunately not taken in sufficient quantities to cause serious results.

The Premier has received a cable message from Sydney stating that the Boer farming delegates will leave that port for New Zealand on the nth of next month.

The first race of the second day of the late race meeting was full of coincidences, for not only did all the five horses pass the post in the order they were numbered on the card, but the time was i.:B, and the dividend was £r ißs. The Mayor declares that a poll in the matter of the proposal to borrow £jooo will be held on Wednesday, 4-tb February.

Last Saturday the Hawkes Bay Polo team beat the Rangitikei Polo team at Bulls by one point. Sergt. Theo. Mitchell was elected a lieutenant in the Foxton volunteers last week.

The Patea Poultry Export Company is well under way. The poultry raised by the company this season is now being killed and stored in the special freezing chambers of the Patea Cold Storage Works. Eggs are also being stored in the freezing works, The company intend to pay 6d per lb live weight for birds of the right quality, but this to shareholders only. A notable feature is that the company is making a success of poultry raising notwithstanding the high price of feed. At the Wellington race meeting on Saturday the Fitzherbert Handicap ot i2o sovs only brought out four competitors ; the Wellesley Stakes of 300 sovs had only three starters; and for the Zealandia Plate of 250 sovs there were only two starters. King Edward has invited Count Paul Wolff-Metternich, the depa-ting German Ambassador, to dine at Windsor Castle on the Kaiser’s birthday on the 37th inst, The State schools re-opened yesterday. Owing to the rain the attendance at the local school was not good.. The quantity of alcohol consumed by those who inveigh against the socalled “accursed thing” is much greater than most people are aware of, says the Times. In this country, alleged temperance drinks are frequently found to be more intoxicating than beer, and other countries have a similar experience. Of the 1580 samples of herb, ginger and “ botanic " beers analysed at the Inland Revenue branch of the British Government Laboratory last year to ascertain if the proof spirit present was within the legal limit of two per cent., it was found that 329 exceeded that limit, but were within three per cent. Among the remainder, 247 ranged higher, 144 containing three per cent., but less than four, while a few even reached six and eight per cent. Legal proceedings for excess of proof spirit in regard to drinks of this description were instituted in 119 cases, (he penalties amounting to £IBB. Proceedings for diluting or adulterating beer not appertaining to the temperance category took place in 275 cases, the penalties amounting to £6,125. A gang of thieves in Melbourne broke into a jeweller’s shop and stole a bar of gold. They did not know the value was only 6d and that the socalled gold was only gilt. Though there was a good deal of drinking on the course at the two day’s racing it is a great thing to be able to say that there Ivas not a drunken man to be seen. It is evident that thirst is staked by a wise combination of liquor and aerated waters. The days were hot enough to justify the big thirst. Dr. Morrison, Pekin correspondent of “ The Times,” says there are good prospects for Australian trade in the East, but nothing appears to have been done to improve commercial relations, T h ere weie several Australian staple products which would find a ready sale if the business were, only systematically worked up. What a joke! In the Reichstag Count von Sonnenberg blamed Germany’s excessive friendliness tor other nations.

The police report that they have never known snch orderly races. There were only two drunks locked up on Friday night. One, evidently unversed in the ways of topers, and their excuses, when asked by the J.P. what he had to plead in excuse, said “ What can a man say in excuse when he admits he was drunk ?” A fine of five shillings was cheap for his night’s accommodation.

With perfect weather, great fields, and finely contested races, the first day ot the annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club was one of the most successful ever held on the club’s prettilysituated and well-appointed course, says the Manawatu Times. The sporting public of the Manawatu were liberal in their patronage, and fully 800 travelled to Foxton by the Feilding and Palmerston special train. The attendance was consequently a record one. The management of the meeting was excellent, everything working with a smoothness which only accompanies well planned arrangements, and as usual visitors were treated with rare hospitality. The fine fields and close finishes were in themselves a compliment to the club’s handicapper, Mr J. E. Henrys.

A picnic was held at Masterton on Thursday in honour of Mr Hogg, member for Masterton, who was presented with a valuable gold watch, subscribed for by his constituents. The Premier was presented by the Wairarapa natives with a valuable gold and greenstone mere, as a token of the Maoris’ appreciation of Mr beddon’s work while Premier of the colony. Mr T. Bows has a well-bred 18months Shorthorn bull for sale.

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