THE MELBOURNE CUP.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 November 1930, Page 8

THE MELBOURNE CUP.

A HEMini'ISCIiXCE. To grandfathers of the present generation the Melbourne Cup was the great race of the year. • There was always a rush to the meeting Tioin all parts of New Zealand. A Dunedin Star subscriber reminds us of those famous holiday trips on which M'ileckan, Blackwood, and C'o.'s steamers were uncomfortably crowded at ordinary fares—no excursion rates. The communication relates to the Taranui's' fcr/i'p '.in" 1870. She had an awful passage, eight days struggling against head winds, some of the passengers seriously ill, and she passed through the Port Phillip Heads two days after the Cup was run. As she entered the port, one oi: Howard Smith's colliers .was going out. Her people recognised the Tararua as the New Zealand vessel crammed with disappointed folk, and the collier stuck in her shrouds a blackboard on which the Cup winner's name was chalked—Nimblefoot. The information was very welcome, since it enabled the Tararua's purser to pay out on the 5s sweep whilst the vessel was steaming up to Hobson's Bay. The winner was the forecabin stewardess, and she received a 'tidy sum, for there was only one prize. w«Wttw?a«s.'i«s«Bi»«- , 'jr.— lona