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A Sydney wire to-day says : — " The Ac - nual sale of thoroughbred yearlings by Andrew Town, Hobartville, fixed to take place yesterday, was postponed owing to unfavorable weather." A Christchurch teiegram say 3 : — "A meeting of delegates from the surburban and country racing clubs, to consider what means should be adopted to protect the clubs from loss of revenue through bookmakers laying totalisator prices, was held on Saturday at the Empire Hotel. The Lower Heathcote, Plumpton Park, New Brighton, North Canterbury, and the Ashburton Clubs were represented. The proceedings were private ; but it is stated that a mode of coping with|the bookmakers was agreed upon, and it ia to be submitted for approval to the several clubs, after which joint action is to be taken." The Onehunga races were well attended. Mitrailleuse won the Cup ; Pretender (late Alpha), 2 ; Orphan No. 2, 3. Spade Guinea ia scratched for everything at Island Bay. The following final payments have been received for the Island Bay Cup :— Waitiriß.ll, Administrator 8.10, Pearl 8.7, Tigridia ß.o, Silence and Titbit 7.12, Rumor and; Soudan 7.10, Fardingale 0.12. Revoke 0.10. Betting : 3 to 1 against Waitiri, 4 to 1 Administrator, 4 to 1 Rumor, 4 to 1 Silence, 4 to 1 Tigridia, 5 to 1 Titbit, fi to 1 Pearl, and 7 to 10 to 1 the others. A Dunedin telegram says:— "Spado Guinea last night was backed for the Dunedin Cup down to 100 to 14, from £400 to £500 being taken altogether." Maligner has been scratched for the Dunedin Cup. At the annual meeting to-day of the D.J.C. the balance-sheet showed the Club had £11,222 as a credit balance. Each race meeting held had returned a pro,rit to the Club, the profit on the autumn meeting being £2042. Hon. G. M'Lean was re-elected president, and Mr Stephenson vice president. The president, in the courße of liia remarks, said that the totalisator was preventing gambling, as young men did not rob their employers to invest on the totalisator." Tf you will notice it, this world is divided into two great classes. One claca brags about things which it does not possess, and the other possesses things which it does not brag about. Someone remarks that " solitude is well enough until you want to borrow something." As if that was not the very time when loanlinesa is most desirable.