MANAIA.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 9 November 1894, Page 2

MANAIA.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

The Manaia Trotting Meeting, as well as the ordinary Hack Races will be held this year in Mr Hair’s paddock ; meantime arrangements are being made to endeavor to secure Mr Muir’s paddock on the Main South Road for future meetings of the proposed amalgamated clubs of Oeo and Manaia.

It is high time something was done to prevent drivers and riders from cutting corners and tearing footpaths to pieces. Tell it not in Gath, and don’t go blabbing it about the Octagon, stranger, but there’s a tarnal dark ’un goiu’ to run at Manaia, and every man suspects his neighbor ; as the Maori says, “ All lite, you wait a bit, by’mc-by, you see.” The Trotting Club have issued very artistic posfers—a realistic picture of a grand finish—in brilliant colors One of nur enlightened citizens, the moment it caugbt his eye, exclaimed : “ Hallo, the bally circus is coming after all! Hooray ! One of our citizens has lately returned from the East Coast. He reports having met Madame Zenubia, the palmist, but he declines any further information. He saw Mrs Besant, too. Mrs Annie Besant, the worldfamed faddist, was shrieking about poverty, and yet she had the price of a nice little farm on her little finger. Annie is voluble, verbose, versatile, and vivacious. s