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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 September 1908, Page 1

... . .^■ To be Lord Mayir^of London coßts generally from £ip-()[Op:.tq'£ 2o,ooo more than the £10,0(Jgf'.(ja,at]nbuied by the city corporation;:- ' '-The.' total expenses are calculated - ; at i&^OW, Of that £2000 goes inVp&ynieflt of half the cost of the Lord /Mayor's -show and banquet and £500 :for. an addition of plate to the Mansion "House' collection. The Chi'islchu,ric}ilcorre«pohdentof the "Dominion" wS'res'-^ as. ."follows under date 2nd inst^-4'M?,;'' Palmer, Mrs Harrison Lee, ■. : »tfd:4lt--M > Gombs, local no- license workers,, "jcime into conflict with the policy-' yeatejdiy afternoon in Cathedral Squate.V^.'A^sergeant of police and a consUble./d.fdered Mr Pai-m-er to move from'-^. front of the United Service HoteV where he was deliverine an address from";'r^uggy, to a spot out of the way of-.^he traffic. I'he horse and trap' wereCinoved along a little further, but just as Mrs Harrison Lee rose to apjsakthe representatives of tho ■ law reappear'jsd,'- and once more ordered the speaker* to move away. Air J. McCorabs hotly .defended the speakmove from a epot at yrJiich religious and othev political speakers could lecture unmolested: rMT-Palmer rose, after a brief discussion v.w»tb, the police, and said that the objection had not come from the Unitied. Service Hotel, the proprietor of which , '.^atl' invited him to soeak from th^balflbny. The police officers, after finally . asking the speakers to move, took -ithe' names bf several of them. It may be mentioned that there is a aood . deal, .of [traffic through that Dart of the square, in the daytime, whereas the speakers would have inter, fered with jio-one'/if"*hey had crossed into another conietf .of- the 6quare."

Tlie other day the cable informed us thnt Mr Bolmont, a famous American racshoree owner, had transferred his stablo to France. Earlier cables announced that in consequence of the New York State anti-gambling law the Futurity Stakes, the richest horse-race in tho United States, has been run this year in the presence of only a few hundred spectators as compared with 40.C00 in 1907, and without a single bookmaker performing on the course. This dwvdly slump in racing may well prompt people to ask for the whereabouts of the owners who race> for sport's sufficiently sweet sake or to "improve the Weed of horses:' Both species are co Tare that the New \ork Lsir-slature had no sooner put betting under the ban than tho wealthier owners becan to ship their horses to England and France, to either sell or race them there, where, p;irt by friends and toes, an owner may take the price he can iret Mr .TnmPR R. Kcene. " Americas "rcaV-st, horfip-man," sent a batch ■:oin« Rome wffks ?i?o, and sold tN»m at very poor rnVes. The cab!e«iT.m= fu" thiM- reported that h* was despatch :n: .-nnther lot to Newmarket, wherp <W wiM be trained; and Merer* AuguM-K-lm-int. Clwivp H Morkay, J. *■ ■'•"Men. and H. P. Whitney, among other leadine American sportsman, int«nd to train and race in England and Prance, whor" bi»ttin» is allowed. It may be admitted that betting nii>ans more revenue and greater public interest in horseracing. But what does that prove except that gambling U almost if not entirely- the life-blocd of racine as carried on in its present • proportions? The breeders of thoroughbreds are finding to their cost that- there is no kindly enthusiasm in well-bred horses to lc^flo th?m c-oini;. The Central JOvn-tiic-kv horse- farmers havo brcn parniii'r 2 OOO.OOOdoIs. a. year, but it is er-timntcd thnt this will be cut down one-third by rrform l^Kirlation in one Stato and another. Presently, however, excess in legislation, tho fault of the spasmodic nnd eDH^m-^ra! reforms s*> o°m.monily *a,tfmpt^d by Am»rican State legislatures, .may d»fpat itself. C'ommentine on the f,i*al habit of American politicians of coiner too far, tho "Sydney; Dnily_ Teloeraoh" says: — "When l-efoi-m is in the ascendant they enforce it fo desperately that- the constituency presently gets restive, nnd at the next election the reartionaries are as likolv as not to have a mninritv and onnn the irate of abufo widor thnn ever b»fnrf> "