DEEP STEEAM ANNUAL EACES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 24 April 1873, Page 6

DEEP STEEAM ANNUAL EACES.

The above meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last. The weather was unexceptionably fine both days, but the attendance was not up to the mark. The course was in a horrible condition, and consequently the races can scarcely be considered a fair test of the merits of the competing horses. Nearly every race the horses bolted, and the one first back to the course won. Appended are the results '.—. — First Day. Maiden Plate, of 7 soys. Weight for age. li- miles Doyle's Lady Chorister, 5 years, 9st 21b (J. Cotton) 1 Cotton's Belle of the Isle, aged, 9st 41b (A. M'Kay) 2 .Nicoll's Jack of the Green, 4 years, 9st 3 Reid's Outsider 0 Won after a' good race by two lengths. District Handicap, of £15. District horses only. 1£ miles. Doyle's Rufiis (J. Cotton) 1 Cotton's Belle of the Isle 2 Murray's Lady Chorister • 3 Bie's Mignonette (scratched) After a splendid finish with Belle of the Isle, Eufus pulled it off by half a leugth. Hack Hurdle Race, of 10 soys. Mile heats, Grieves Sir Charles (J. Cotton) 1 Keid's Falcon (A. M'Kay) 2 Reids Kildare (T. M'ltay) 3 Ward's A'igger (C. Holt) 0 A well contested race. Falcon would have won, but for Kildare canoning against him. Jimmy Cotton brought in Sir Charles with a rush and won cleverly. Deep Stream Handicap, of 20 soys. Bie's Mignonette, aged, 7st 21b 1 Mullin's Haven, aged, 7st 21b 2 Dwyei'a Sultana, (5 yrs, 7st 41b 3 Ward's Lyndon, aged, 9st 121 b 0 Eight entered, but only four came to the post, Mignonette winning easily, Eaven a good second. Second Day. Ladifs Purse, of 15 so\s. If miles. Gentlemen riders. Doyle's Rufus (Grieve) 1 Ward's Lyndon (H. Prince) 2 Gibson's Bedouin (Owner) 3 Mullin's Raven (scratched) Lyndon had the race m hand, but unfortunately bolted off the course, allowing Eufus to come in hard held. Lublkhn's Handicap, of £15. Dwyer's Sultana, aged, Gst 121 b (C. Monaghan) 1 Bie's Mignonette, aged, 7st 81b (A. Sinitli) 2 Gourlay's Bobby Burns, aged, 6st 91b (Owuer) 3 Murray's Lady Chorister, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b 0 The above event secured nine entries, but only four faced the starter. The whole of the horses bolted off the course. Sultana being the quickest to get on again, beat the field by a length. ~'\ Handicap Hurdle Rage, 2 miles ; over eight flights of hurdles. Reid's Falcon, aged, 9st 71b (A. M'Kay 1 Grieves ir Charles, aged, lOst (I. M'Kay)^2 Reid's Kildare, lOst (scratched) Only two came to the post; both jumped splendidly, old Falcon securing sfche prize after a good contest. District Plate, of 15 soys. 2£ miles. Doyle's Rufus (J. Cotton) 1 Gibson's Bedouin (Grieve) 2 Murray's Lady Chorister 3 Cotton's Tainborini 0 Old Rufus again showed them tLe way, and admirably ridden by young Cotton won. Consolation Handicap. Muslin's Raven, 7st 71b (J. T Monaghan) 1 Gourlay's Bobby Burns, 6st 81b 2 Gibson's Bedouin, Gst 3 Eaven went to the front and never was caught.

In 23 years more than a million of population has been added to the city of London, without including the suburban towns swallowed up in the course of the city's expansion on all sides. In the same time 250,000 houses of all kinds have been built, aud the beats of the police have been extended 1,130 miles. 80,000 policemen are now employed regularly — a standing army more effective and better paid than any equal number since the days of the Praetorians of Rome ; and these are, on extraordinary occasions, assisted by the guards and household regiments of the Queen.