Rabbit Island Races.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5553, 26 February 1886, Page 3

Rabbit Island Races.

♦ THE ACCEPTANCES The following acceptances and general entries have been received for the Rabbit ;' {aland Races on March 5 : — MAIDEN PLATE. One mile. Lilly Hnlawell Zatu Manola Tommy Milkman S'nauka Aotreea Daisy OPEN HURDLES. TwotaUee. Miiuamoclc i Secretary Ingomar I Walnboom XJugask I Polly DISTRICT HURDLES. One mile and a Lalf. Ada I Doveridge Actress I Presto Arahi | Sunshine PENINSULA CUP. One mile and a. halt Mermaid I Plonghboy Master Amies I Golden Spec At hoi Daisy I Conundrum Malonna | Nellie , „ AADIEB' PUBSE. One mile. •3r«in<iia Athol Daisy Couundjum Kingask Master Agnea Miss Lyle 'FLY/ma H4NDICAP. Three-quarter mile. Conundrum I Plonghboy Mamboom Ironsides Madonna | Silver Queei DISIBICT HANDICAP. 7 : Golden Spec I* 8 "* 0 Arnbl Sbankß Milkmaa Kaituna Sanshliw

There are few things, e&ya "/EgW in the Australasian, that combine a feeling of pleasure tinged with a sense of regret more than an old play bill. The bill of the performance distributed in our theatres republishes now and again the playbills of the paßt, and very interesting they are, although calculated to provoke comparisons not altogether favourable to the present theatrical reign. For instance, what a performance that was of "Maritana" on 11th August, 18G4, with Henry "Whaiton, Squires, Lucy Escott, and Georgia Hodson in the leading parta, and followed by the " Daughter of the Regiment," with Rosalie Durand, Arines Beaumont, and Fred. Lyster. It almost equals my remembrance of Sims Reeves singing the part of Edgardo in ♦' Lucia," and that of Captain Macheath, in the " Beggar's Opera," on one supreme evening 35 years