QUEEN'S REDOUBT.
tI'HOM OCK OWN COUUKseoNDF.NT.j August 10. In the dull routine of our daily life here, it is a pleasure lo be able to chronicle some attempt to varv it by a little, amusement. lighting in the Waikato has. become a tradition, and even the heroes of Kangiriri are looked upon as so many Munchausens when they attempt to relet'- their adventures at that famous spot. But lam wandering from my subjcit-. what I intended lo tell was mi impromptu foot-race between two sergeants at this station, one named Clarke, attached to the C'oinmissari it Department, and bis opponent, a color-sergeant of the ">Uth regt., whose name is l'ike. The lirst named sergeant had made a bet with the latter that lie would heat him at a hundred yards' race, and give him two yards al starting. The Commissariat sergeant could not recover tiie lost ground, and beforo he was little more than half-way iie gave up tie- race. When this had been concluded a lance-corporal of the Commissariat Stall' Corps and tvvo men who are attached made a match at the same distrnee. The corporal beat the other two, by about five vards, but it was a very well contested race up to the last twenty yards. 1 had loft- the ground as soon as tho last race had been decided, thinking that all was over, but before I had got a hundred yards away I saw symptoms of another race. It seems that after Clarke's defeat he bet £10 on another hundred yards' race with his victor, but. the conditions were inverted, his opponent .giving him two yards instead ot receiving- it. This was a very well contested race, only half a yard difference, and 1 havo no doubt that Clarke would have won it if it had been dry firm ground instead ot sloppy jiiud, as ho hears the reputation of being' one ol the best, if not the very best, Holder at cricket iu the Australian Colonies.
After the races were over the same two men made a match ut quoits, when the loser of the races beat the other hollow in three successive games.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 238, 17 August 1864, Page 4
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360QUEEN'S REDOUBT. New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 238, 17 August 1864, Page 4
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