THAMES RACES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2141, 13 November 1875, Page 3

THAMES RACES.

A number of gentlemen met at Mr Young's Queen's Hotel last night for the purpose of electing iteirardi and taking other steps towards "carrying out the usual annual races at Pa'rawai. Mr McCullough was called to the chair, 1* »nd, read .thftladvertisement' from the Evening Star calling the meeting. Mr Spencer said that he had always taken considerable interest in getting up race meetings, and this year he had managed to induce' the- Auckland Jockey Club to hold their meeting on the,, firtfc .of the. .new, .year, so .aji.to pjreTeafc' ttje\ Shame* **nd the -. Auckland meeting, being held upon the same day. He regretted that it was announced that races would beheld at Tararu upon the same day it was proposed to hold thtm at Parawai. He thought that as thd&owitallffiteairat'to beheld on-Boxing Day, the day at ffirstf;ffied~ upta^ for the races, that a mefyifi^cpuld-begotup *ell forPirawai; ai the .arrangements, for the fe"fce T Would .•&%& for iihe fflr.Cooki so f that, theJn^ineiSt might IBS 6rwt, pio|oled,th»t the^race Jmeet,^Ppbe held at Parawai 'on the' 28th inst. ~Se.Gondcd^y l M fi Quint. r and.carried; i " "Mr Spencer proposed' that the following gentlemen be stewards: — Messn D»?rowi.Sßencer,;MciaaUoirtih,tiW*M6n. ■on.^alnutt^QraQe,; Go6k, x Quints B^«wdon and;Youog. ( o- .. '>•'-" : x ■■l-' ' < The Chairman.', suggested fcbe stewarde should, be.'l-requested <to ititprview- the stewards' of the >Tararu Committee, with the object of Jarrangingr'tf'^ossilble/'for one meeting. .... -« £ ISS Brassey; | «liS^*o^Jfe»«i«e" rexnarksy p^ropose;ct'fthat thfiT stewards-now lippomted should bonier^Arith stewards' of the 1 Tararu "^efehng for'"the' purpose of inaking-'.amngementV^for holding.'|one Sajls.rac^^p^ftrawaiandlon^a'fcTararu. Seconded By'Mr.CraWand^carriid.' ,- An offer *df £20 made by the ( ..'|tewards to the lessees of the Parawai Gardens for one day*s Vacct^meetingi \'A. jsub-com-mitteewas appointed to confer with the stewards of ; th«^Tararuome©ting,'ind to report progress at a meeting to takVplace this eyening. k ), . •"Ot« £35fcwa& promised, bj t the gflntlemen preserit'towards the funds.