TELEGRAMS

Southland Times, Issue 13063, 10 November 1894, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, Nov. 9. At the race meeting of the Auckland Club to-day the President’s Handicap was won by Abel, The Barge 2, St. Patrick 3 ; the Welcome Stakes by Fortne, Armourer 2, Fabulist 3; the Auckland Guineas by Forme, Grenadier 2, Doris 3; and the Prince of Wales Handicap by Ben Godfrey, Forme 2, Anita 3. WELLINGTON, Nov. 9. The Wellington Gas Co. shortly make a reduction in the price of gas. Captains of volunteer companies have been notified that the Martini-Henry rifles recently received are to be distributed in the proportion of ten to each of the rifle corps in the colony. After the last day of the volunteer year the usual grant of 100 rounds of ammunition per man to members of rifle dubs will be discontinued. At a meeting of the City Council the Mayor declared that certain information regarding tenders had been divulged by a councillor. He declined to say who the offender was, but a motion was tabled that a committee be set up to ascertain how the information leaked out. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 9. At the Racing Conference last night the report of the committee recommending that the conference should be continued ; that a committee be appointed to act during the recess as a court of appeal; that a committee to be called the “ District Racing Committee ” should be appointed in each metropolitan district and detailing functions of these committees, was adopted. It was resolved that the recommendations in the report come into force*7>n Ist August, 1895, but that they should not be binding on any club which may give notice before the meeting of the next conference that they do not wish to come under these resolutions. The question of the reduction of one-third of the licenses wanted for the use of the totalisator to be made in each metropolitan district was gone into and the following arrangement for Canterbury and Otago for 1895-96 was agreed to : —Canterbury: 4 metropolitan and 19 country meetings ; Dunedin : 4 metropolitan and 28 country meetings. A total of 133 meetings was sanctioned as against 200 meetings formerly. A message from the lighthouse states that two boys fell over the cliff near Lyttelton Heads to-day. The tug, with Dr Pairman, has been despatched to the spot. DUNEDIN, Nov. 9.

At the Taieri races the Cup was won by The Winchman, 7 0; Maribyrnong, 8.7, 2; Wolseley, 9.4, 3. Dividend, L 5 4s. Stewards’ Purse Welter —Swivel, 9.8, 1 ; Mountain Maid, 10.12, 2. Dividend, L 8 19s. Flying Handicap—Cactus, 8.3, 1 ; Giencairn 7.12, 2. Dividend, La 2.