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NOTES BY MASTER M'GRATH.

At the Oamaru meeting on the 29fch mat. there will be two stakes — a Member's Stake and a Derby. I understand that the Oamaru Club will in future strictly enforce the rule against a man nominating another owner's dog. Six thousand five hundred land-owners and others have appended their signatures to a petition presented by Sir John Kennaway to the House of Commons, wherein it ia premised that the preseut perpetual destruction of the Britieh hare is certain, if not checked, and that speedily, to result in its becoming a thing of tht past. To all but those who desire its destruction for sordid motives, this beautiful animal, it is observed, is a tbiDg esteemed and priced, and it is to avert the recurrence of so universal a misfortune as its extinction that the help of the legislature is invoked. A case of some interest was recently heard in Sydney. Mr P A. Lamb, the well-known coursing man, brought an action against the Railway Commiaaioners for £50 for the losa of a greyhound, full sister to Lincoln, the Waterloo Cup winner. She had baen put in the train at Singleton, and all trace of her lost. The defence waa that a regulation provided that that defendants should not be liable for more than £2 in such cases. A non-suit was moved for, but refused, and the judge gave a verdict for £25, will leave to state a special case.