WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 31

WELLINGTON NOTES.

Bt Onlooker.

June 16.

There is a bit of a typhoid epidemic going through this city just now, and among the victims ia Mr W. H. Sayer, who is a son of the owner of the Newmarket Handicap winner, Wild

Rose (Mr W. Sayer, of Melbourne). Mr Sayer is in our hospital. The Palmeraton North Trotting Club's officials held a meeting on Wednesday, and decided to hold their next meeting on the Ist August. The total stakes was fixed at 150sovs.

The Otaki Maori Racing Club has this week voted a guinea to the King fund. The late " Vigilant" was their handicapper. The sporting folk in and about Levin, up the Manawatu, are consulting with the view of establishing a racing club. At the last meeting of the stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club, held this week at Featherston, the treasurer reported a credit balance of £27 11s, and accounts amounting to £33 were passed for payment. The site for a new training track was left in the hands of a sub-committee. The police at Masterton got the tip that a racehorse was to be raffled in that town, and from that "information received" the "foorce"made a raid on Tuesday night last on the premises of Messrs A. White and Co., tobacconists. Nine o'clock was the hour chosen— not midnight's stilly gloom — and the attacking party consisted of a sergeant and two constables. There was an undue sound of laughter within—" highly suspicious" was the word passed along in whispers— but at the knock silence reigned until a voice cried like a startled woman in a lonely house, " Who's there?" With all the weight upon him swelling out his manly bosom, the sergeant thundered, ', The po-lice ! " Silence was instantly deposed, libe a South American dictator, and manysounding bustle took charge like barrackers at a football match, and like the hunted wild goose, everyone in the room desired and sought to hide his head, anywhere— counter, table, screen — aye, even the show part of the window. And like a game of hide and seek, when the word '"ready" is given, when the door was opened the foorce found themselves in the dark, and under this friendly cover many tried to get into the street, but got into the embraces of a burly bobby instead— this tender care being shown towards no less than 14 of them. Of course, when the sergeant lined them up they all avowed their innocence, and some of them were of such importance in the town as to almost make any man but a woman believe them innocent, as their occasion of being there, quoth they, was to made a marriage present ! The S.M. will have some interest in the affair later on. The announcement which has been before the sporting public for a month past that A. G. Vaine and Co. would auction without reserve the wellknown racehorses Kent and Swordbelt did not gather together either a crowd or an enthuse at the saleyardson Thursday afternoon, and the bidding was about as poor as therecent performances of the racers. Kent went up first, and from a bad start (75gs) got away slowly, showing no spurting powers, and caved in undsr the flag at a tune of 195*s. Swordbelt was a wretched second, a spectator giving the word "go" at lOgs, and he was a long while covering the distance of 35gs, at which he was clean worked out, and even at the third time of asking could not go another ounce. Mr A. W. Cave, of the Wairarapa, was the purchaser of both animals. The "armour" brought soys. The third entrant and starter— The Angler, by Isaaz Walton— did not finish, passing in. The Wairarapa Hunt Club had a four-mile run with the hounds over the property of Messrs M'Kenzie and Montgomery, at Manaia, the former gentleman providing the refreshment for tho inner huntsmen.