RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9565, 22 October 1892, Page 2

RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES.

(tnosi Oub Own Coreesfonbent.) Ciihistcuduch, October 21. .In couseqnense of the rain of the previous mgnt the grass gallsp was opened this morning, v <■ 7 opened proceedings by sending is-0.-uitu once round at a good working pace, and Retina, Awarua Rose, and Yon Tempskv eaca twice round steadily. Crov.-n Jewel covered a couple of circuits at a good pace as did also Au Revoir. Lauucestou and Flinders were sent twice round at half and three-quarter pace, and Crackshot covered twice that "distav.ee at a similar rate. St. Hippo, moving

very freely, compassed a- mile and a-quarter strongly in company with Dancer, and there is no doubt Dancer can gallop fast ' though he has a bad knee and bad action. A number of youngsters were.exercised. The Yalclhurst two-year-olds and Stepniak were clown this morning, aud some of the two-year-olds look very promising, especially theLocbiel colt that won recently at Hawke's Bay. Stepniak seems to be all right. He did a fair halfpace gallop to-day. Mason tells me that Hybrid wants time ere he can be seen to advantage. Zodiac was given a steady twice-round, and Vogeugang and Spurned were similarly exercised. Black Pearl covered two miles and a-half at a steady pace, and Erin-go-Bragh, the iiistor to Cajolery, Norton, Kulnine, and Merrie England all did similar work. AVakav/atea was given a strong twice-round, and The Dreamer covered a further circuit similarly.

not sleep; you cannot with your throbbing head on your tired hands and knees; your wretched frame undergoing relentless persecution from invisible and insatiable tormentors. Gladly do you welcome the first dawn of nature's light on the scene, which has grown thick and yellow with humanity's exhalations. As the streak grows and gleams through the low window panes, men rise from their living, tombs—a resurrection scene of awful grnesomeness—to resume their clothing, raid to seek what you hasten to seek—light and air. A WORD OF COMMENT. Such are a few passages from this dreadful narrative. The correspondent concludes with a few remarks on the management of the shelters. He says:—The conviction forces itself upon the mini that this phase- of Geusral Booth's work is open to very grave objection, and demands a drastic and imtnedi- j ate reform. The shelter, as it is now conducted, is no credit to the army. The most elementary principles of personal cleanliness and decency are ignored. No attempt seems to be made to inculcate either the one or the other. Of the spiritual influences the Salvation Army may exercise over those who seek refuge within its shelters I am ignorant; but I am convinced that, apart from whatever influence there may be; there is absolutely nothing in these shelters that can possibly tend to raise a man socially or morally.