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Otago Witness, Issue 1911, 6 July 1888, Page 23

TVT O W READY HEW ZEALAND TURF RECORD For 1886-7. s?BtcE, 108; Including Postage, 10s 6d, Orders can be sent to MESSRS WHETHAM & CO., I2au Box 325, P. 0., Dunedin. AAMARU COURSING CLUB. OAMARU CHAMPION STAKES, Kun on THURSDAY, 19rn JULY 1888. If 32 Nominations, £20 added money to Winner. If 21 Nominations, £15 added money to Winner. Less than 24 Nominations, £10 added money to Winner. For an unlimited number of All-age Greyhounds. Nominations, with 10s each enclosed, to go to the funds ot the Club, mu3t be made by 9 p.m. on THURSDAY, 12th JULY, with the Secretary at the Globe Hotel, Oamaru, or Philps' Hotel, Dunedin. Acceptances, with £3 each enclosed, with Colour, Name, and Pedigree of Dog, must be sent in to the Secretary on TQKSDAY, 17th JULY, to Globe Hotel, Oamaru, at or before 9 p.m.— Draw immediately afterwards. No Nomination or acceptances will be taken without tho money enclosed. O. It. WISE, Hon. Secretary, Globe Hotel, Oamaru. OLUMPTON COURSING MEETING Under tho management/^ the Dunedlu Jockey Club. JULY 12, 13, aud 14, 1888. ALL-AGED STAKES, of 40sovs, with a| sweep of 2sovs each added, for an unlimited number of dogs. Nomination, 10a. ST. LEGER, of 25sovs, with a sweep of 2sovs each added, for an unlimited number of dogs. Nomination, 7s 6d. CONSOLATION STAKES, of ISsovs. with a aweep of Isov each added, for dogs which ran in the above stakes, and received no prize money. Nomination, ss. NOMINATIONS for All-aged Stakes and St. Leger CLOSE at 9 p.m. on TUESDAY, 3rd July. Sweei s to be Paid on TUESDAY, July 10 (the night of draw), at 9 p.m. Full detailed programmes on application to the Secretary, at the Office of tho Dunedin Jockey Club Dunedin. On Saturday, 14th, the South train will be delayed until 5.10, aud the North train till 6 o'clock. HARRY L. JAMES. 16ju Secretary.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Natatob, Oamaru, — The record for under-water swimming Is 113 yds lft. W.M., Dunedin. — The results of the six-da3's' go-as-vou-please race in New York were as follow : - George Littlewood, Sheffield, 611 miles, 1 ; Gus. Guerrero, California, sSf> miles, 2 ; Daniel llerty, Botton, 5/3 miles, 3; G. T). Noremac (late of Glasgow), 533 miles, 4; Peter Golden, Boston, 529 miles, 6 ; John Hughes, New York, 49i miles, 0. P. M.J., Wellington. — Wapiti is not a Maori word at all ; it is the North American Indian's name for the elk. O. P., Dunedin. — Captain Webb's time for swimming the Channel wa6 21hrs 45min. A. O.M' Kay, Hampden.— The letter from the auctioneer doeß uot decide the wager one way or the other,