GISBORNE RACING CLUB'S SUMMER MEETING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5668, 15 January 1890, Page 3

GISBORNE RACING CLUB'S SUMMER MEETING.

There is a charming actress on the London stage, pays New York Truth, whose husband mysteriously disappeared seven or eight years ago. . On the first day of overy month, from his disappearance up to date, the lady received an envelopo containing LSO and a card from her husband :"T am alive atid well. God bless you." Only that and nothing more. The last envelope received contained LIOO and a card : " Hereafter I will send you LIOO a month until we meet. I urn alive and well. God bless you." From the date of the disappearance his wife, l'elationa, friends, etc., never knew the whereabouts of the man, and the mystery is as dead as it was eight years ago. •' Hurrah ! hurrah !" shouted a veteran, as the orchestra at the Saengerfest began to play a selection. " You must be quiet," said one of the ushers rushing up to him. " JNot much I rausn't," said the veteran, " not when that is played. I used to belong to that regiment ; and I'll ahout for the boys as long hs the Almighty gives me breath." "Your regiment. What do you mean V asked the usher, as the crowd waited to hear the result of the disturbance. 'That's what I mean," s iid the veteran, putting his finger on the programme. " There it is. Twelfth Mass ! That's my regiment. The old Twelfth Massachusetts? We fought from Bull's Run to Five Forks !"

By 3ome inadvertence the following entries and acceptances for the above Club's summer meeting, to be held on the Park Company's racecourse on January -21 st and 22nd, were omitted from our Uisl night's issue : — j

The Lochnagar, which left Napier on Friday lust for Giuhorne, has not yet arrived. Captain Skinner, of the schooner Gihborne, reports having sighted a vessel outside last night, which may have been the Louhnagar. It is stated that fifty-five clergymen are shareholders in tho Gla.sgow Tramway Company, and out of that number it is alleged that only eleven voted in favor of the motion, at the recent annual meeting, to discontinuo running the cars on Sundays. Tho island of Tristan d' Acunha, in the South Atlantic, was recently visited by Captain Fearon, of tho ship Dawpool. The island is only six miles across, and with the exception of a very small portion it is unhabitable. On this patch some 89 peoplo, descendants of English soldiers from tho Capeof Good Hope,audafew negro women, who were afterwards imported, eke out an existence, although they are often without somo of tho necessaries of life. When the inhabitants saw Captain Fearon's ship lying off the island some of them went to it in small boats. They had some vegetables with them which they eagerly bartered for flour, tea, coffee, and sugar. One of the men in the boat was a venerable old greyheard, a native of Holland, aged 82. He wns wrecked on the island 52 years ago and has remained there ever since. Captain Fearon was surprised to find on the island the Rev G. H. Dodeson, of the Chestnuts, Guilford, Surrey. He has been there for eight years ministering to the inhabitants of this lonely island without fee or reward. The inhabitants are discontented, and expressed to Captain Fearon a hope that tho British Government would remove them to a more favored region. They said all the Government did for them was to send a man-of-war once a year, and thin was their only communication with the outer world. Tho London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus says :- " I was talking to perhaps the greatest heiress in England, and happened to mention that another heiress was determined to marry nothing but a young lord. " But," broke in the first heiress, ' there are no young lords to marry !' She spoke with such warmth that I inferred she had searched the whole j mnrket. What she meant was, of course, that there were none — barring on one side the drunken young fools who propose for burlesque actresses at the fag-end of a supper at Rule's— and barring on tho other those excessively superior and fortunate young noblemen, Kke Lord Chelsea who are be'ng kept in cotton-wool for brides of exulted birth. Lord Dudley is regarded by the marriageable heiress or beauty as one of the hopeless class of peers Untaught by his arrest at a baccarat club, and undeterred by the renewed moral activity of the police, he is still playing his favorite game, and is said to have- lost L 30.000 at it the other day."

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