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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2026, 4 February 1887, Page 3

AMALGAMATED FRIENDLY SOCIETIES’ SPORTS TO BE HELD ON THE RECREATION RESERVE OKEYTOWN. ON THURSDAY, ST. PATRICK’S DAY, MARCH 17, 1887. PROGRAMME. o o -a c S5 <1 f- 1 O 1 Maiden Race. 220 yds.. 2/ 25/ 10/ 2 F'r. Soc. Handicap, 450 2/ 2/ 40/ 20/ 3 Ist (-vent, St Patrick's handicap, 120 yds .. 20/ 10/ 4 Obstacle Race, 220 yds 2/ 20/ 10/ 5 Two mile Walking Hep 2/ 4/ 80/ 30/ 3rd prize, 10/ 6 100 yds Handicap ~2/ 2/ 40/ 20/ Boy or Girl Race 7 Bardie Handicap, 220 yds, 6 bardies .. 2/ 2/ 40/ 20/ 8 Novel Race; to walk 50 yds, ran 50yds, bop 60, and finish all lours 60 yds .. .. 2/ 20/ 10/ 9 Sec. Event St Patrick's Handicap, 440 yds .. 20/ 10/ Boy or Girl Race 10 Half Mile Race .. 2/ 8/ 60/ 20/ 11 Obstacle Race, 220 yds 2/ 20/ 10/ 12 10} yds Eaodicap .. 2/8 30/ 10/ 13 Jockey Race lor men, 220 yds, weight not less than 6 stone .. 2/ 20/ 10/ 14 Third Event St Pat* rick Hep, 220 yds .. 20/ 10/ Boy or Girl Race 15 Hordle Race Hand’cp, 440 yds .. 2/ 3/ 60/ 30/ 16 Mile Race Handicap.. 2/ 4/ 60/ 30/ 17 Consolation Hep, 220y 2/ 30/ 10;

Bt Patrick’s Handicap, Nos 3, 9, and 14 on : the programme will be coanted by points—--Ist, 5 points ; 2nd, 3 points ; 3rd, 2 points. Nomination 4s, acceptance 6s. Ist prize £B, 2nd prize £4, 3rd prize £2, and as will bo seen by the programme in addition to these prizes, 20s and 10s will be given for Ist and 2nd in each event. Nominations (or St Patrick’s Handicap and events 2, 5, 6,7. 10,15, and 16 will close at Greytown, on MONDAY, February 28th. Handicaps will be pnblisbed in the Wairarapa Standard and Evening Press on WEDNESDAY, the 9th March. No other intimation of Handicaps will be given.

RULES AND REGULATIONS. Entries for open races to be made to tbe Secretary, on the ground. The decision of the Committee, or whoever they may appoint, shall in all cases of dispute, be final; and all protests shall be made within a quarter of an hour after the event. In tbe event of tbe weather proving nn(avorable, tbe Committee shall have it in their power to postpone the Sports from day to day. All Nominations mast be accompanied L*> fees or they will not be recognised. Each competitor for Handicaps must state in writing their performances for last two years. Three competitors to start or no prize ; five or no second prize ; seven or no third prize. Any competitors starting before signal, to be put back one jard, for the first breach two yards for tbe second end to be disqualified for that event for the third. Prizes will be paid on the groand. Admission Is; children nnder 12, half price. A GRAND PROCESSION Of Friendly Societies, in full Regalia, will start from Foresters’ Hall, at 10 a m, headed by a Braas Band, which will play on the ground. Sports will commence at 11 O’Clock Sharp. To wind up with A DATSTOB. Dancing will commence at 8 p.m. Gentlemen, 2s; Ladies, Is. 68 A. L. WEBSTER, Secretary.

GREYTOWN TRUST LANDS. ' I 'HE VOTERS’ LIST is now open for Inspection at the Council Chambers until TUESDAY, the 15th instant, 1886. All objections thereto must be sent in on or before the said date. 3 A L WEBSTER, Secretary, BOROUGH OF OREYTOWN LICENSING DISTRICT THE Nomination of five persons to form the Licensing Committee for Borough of Grey town District must be made at the Council Chambers, Greytown, on WEDNESDAY, the 9th instant, at 12 o’clock noon. In the event of more than five candidates being nominated for the above Committee a Poll will bo taken and the time and place of taking the same will be declared on the day of nomination and will be notified by public advertisement. A L WEBSTER, g4 Returning Officer. FEATHERSTON ROAD DISTRICT. NOTICE is hereby given that at a special meeting of the above Board to be held on MONDAY. 7tli February next, it is pro posed to pass the following special orders, Tiz;—

1. Thu! Pub rtiptricl 6 of the Featberston Hoad Dbtiict, and the White Rock Station, containing 19,000 acre?, and the Wbaterangi Station, containing 27 000 acres, be a Special Rating Dis'rict bribe purposes of the “Local Rodina Lean Art. 18S0," and that a Special Kite of Unee sixteenth* (ihlClUp) of n penny in ILe £ be levied in such district tor the rrpavmeut of tlie prnpised loan of £2o(>o for a bridge over the Haa'Diibunga River at K.bautara. 2. Tb t «nb district 5 of the Featberston Ho-ul Dbtrict be a sreoial rating i-Iri I for the panoses of the ' i, cl l Bodies Loans Act, 189fi'' ■oil tint a snecial rate of onesixteenth of a peony iu the £ be levied in such district for the repayment of proposed loan of £SOO for the formation, Ac., of certain roads in such sub district. Ry Order W. BOCK. Clerk. January Bth. 1887. 83 4®4