SPORTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11924, 24 December 1900, Page 3

SPORTING.

AUCKLAND TROTTING MEETING. (Per United Pbess Associatiox.) AUCKLAND, December 22. The weather was fine and the attendance large for the opening day of the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer meeting. The sum of £3089 was passed through the totalizator in 10s tickets. Results: — Maiden Trot. One mile.—Hero 1, Comet V 2, Martha 3. Time, 2min 57Jsec. Dividend, £3 Maiden Pony Handicap. Five furlongs — Wee Tottic 1, The Spray 2,"Taffy 3. Time, lmin Bsec. Dividend, £2 Ba. Auckland Trotting Cup Handicap. Two miles.—Cob 1, Viscount 2, Larry 3. Time omin 3Hsec. Dividend, £11 7s. Pony Cup. One mile.—Bavaria 1, Dolly % JNew Boy 3. Time lmin 48isec. Dividend '35s Electric Trot. One mile.—Lany 1, Comet V 2, Lord Harold 3. Time, 2min iUsec. Dividend, 365. Steeplechase. About two miles and a-ha!f.— Banshee 1, Tickle Me Gently 2, Venus 3. Time smin 57sec. Dividend, £i 13s. December Trot, One mile and a-half.-Harold Abdallah 1, Hollywood 2, August 3. Time, 4min Misec. Dividend, £3 18s. Telephone Handicap. Five furlongs.—Ath el 1 .Wee Tottic 2, Talisman 3. Time, lmin 7sec. Dividend, 275. TUAPEKA C.J.C. RACES. The following nominations havo been received for the Tuapeka County Jockey Club's races:— Publicans' Handicap.-La Reine, Ukase, The Orphan, Off Chance, Gladys 11, Belligerent Hack Race.—Windsor, Stockfish, Blizzard, Ukase, Blackpool, Chaos, Annoyance Novel Race.—Stockfish, Blizzard, Chaos Lawrence Handicap.—Decoy, Bracken, Brisa. President's Handicap.—La Heine, Decoy, The Orphan, Off Chance, Blackpool, Gladys II Belligerent, Waiinate Maid. . " Farmers' Plate.—Hedgehope, Jock, Hoopiron Windsor, Dinah. Two-mile Trot.—Culler.dale. Ida Park Bed v -I°^ Viresco- Southern Queen, Spy, Inch Keith, Balloon, Patience, Beauty, Cliarlcville Erin. . ' Flying Handicap.—La Reine The Orphan Ukase Blackpool, Gladys 11, Belligerent, Waimatc Maid. T.C.J.C. Handicap.—Brisa, Annoyance, Decoy, Bracken. Shorts Handicap.—Quicksliot 11, Le Clair, The Orphan, Ukase, Oft Chance, My Fancy, Gladys 11, Belligerent, Waimste Maid. Stewards' Purse —Wait-a-wec, Brisa, Decoy Bracken, Blackpool, Blizzard. Farewell Handicap.—Stockfish, Quicksliot II oi Annoyance, Belligerent, ■ Blizzard.' Chaos, Blackpool* Mile and a-Half Trot.—Whirlwind, Mad-lh Ida Park. F.boncss, The Laird. Bed of Stone' Wild Bill. Southern Queen, Spy. Erin, Balloon, Patience, Beauty, CharleviUc. Farewell Dash Trot.—Whirlwind. Madella inn, Sigvakl, Patience, Beauty, Ida Park Keith "'' BCCI °f StOnC' WiU' Bill> Illc:' Tho Massey-Harris bicycle department Im> been removed from Crawford street to the daneisome and commodious premises situated at iSo. 121 a Reorgp street, Dunedm, lateiv occupied by the Austral Cycle Agency. Oil the Ist of next month the Massey-Hnrris Company (Limited), who hitherto have run Hie bicyelo husinwa. will hand it over to the Canada Cycle and Motor Company (Limited), a corporation which controls a very largo proportion of the total production of bicycle- in Canada. A transfer of this biirine ?s f rO m the Ma^ey-Harvis Comnany (Limited) to the Canada Cycle and Motor Company (Limited) was decided upon over a year ago, but the step could not be taken until now. Mr ifae;nu«, who has beon identified with the business for several years, will assume the mnnagerr"nt of the Massev-Hnrris 'Apartment of rhe Canada Cycle and Motor Coirraiu- (Limited). W<> are informed that flurintr the last fnur months the business of the department ha- expanded considerably. 1 antl^ with tho greater convenience for doing business in the new premises, n further expansion may bo expected under Mr Magnus's management. Raspberries are probably the most profitable of fruits for market-growing, and tha rrw varieties "Superlative" and "Hornet" are the best paying kinds to grow. Nnnio AND Blair sell them, and will give all particulars regarding them.—Advt.