Waverley-Waitotara Recing club.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11879, 10 November 1893, Page 2

Waverley-Waitotara Recing club.

The above Club held its meeting yesterday, and were favoured with beautiful weather. A large number of people went from Wanganui, and there were fully 1500 on th.9 ground. Tho Hawera Band discoursed some good music during the day, while the Stewards worked well, getting all the events oil up to lime. The totiilisiitor was under the control of Mr F. Hill, who managed to put through .£BBOB daring the day. The starting was very bad in gome of the events, but notwithstanding the finishes were good in nearly every race. Appended are the results s — Handicap Hukdle3. Nanakia, 10sl8!b (Higgins) 1 Brads-haw, 103fc 91d (Price) 2 Manine, (Ist 51b ( Indorson) 3 Two others Etarted. Won easily by two lengths. Time, 2m in 3030 C. Dividend, £1 S3. Waverlby and Waitotaka Cup, 15 miles Chatterbox, Bst 51b (Letl) ] Irish Twist, 7st (Scbaffer) 2 Pill, Oat 51b (Chapman) 3 Three others started. From thefnU of the fiiig Chatterbox went to the front and was never headed, eventually winning by a nose from Irish Twist, who en me rather late. Time, 2min dGsec. Dividend, £i Si. A protest win entsred tt gainst the winner for interference daring the ra:o, but was not upheld. Catch Weights. Magazine (Schaffer) 1 Snapcap 2 Respond 3 Sixteen others fuced tho si art or. Won by half a length. Time, 53sec. Dividend, £6 18s. Flying Handicap. Tramore, 7st Blb 1 Whiffler, Gst 13lb 2 Docility, G.-l 10lb 3 Five others also run. Tramoro, get. ting awaY with a flyine start, was never caught. Tine, lmin 18sec, Dividend, £($. Momohaki Stakes Handicap, Ijmilos. Irish Twist, 7st 21b 1 Kai Iwi Lady, Sit 81b 2 Strike, 7sl 111 b 3 This was the best rnco of tho day, tho placed liorsos finishing all together. Time, lmin 18,soc. Dividend, .CG Gs. Post Stakes. Magazine, 03t(Lnmg) 1 Cyrus, 93t (Lett) ... 2 Snapcap, fist (Johns! one) ... ... 3 Kighteen others also ran. The wiunor was left, fully 20 lengths behind at [ho start. Time,sssec, Dividend, -C 2 15s, Prince ov Wales Handicap, 7 furlongs. Chatterbox, Bst 81b (Lett) 1 Hinau, Bst 41b (LiDd) 2 Docility, Gst lulb 3 Chatterbox was first to move off tho mark, and galloping like a racehorse, won, all out., by half a length. Time, lmin 39sec. Dividend, .£2193 Final Handicap, 1 milo. Whiffler, 7st 9lb (Lind) 1 Starlight, Bst 12! b (Lott) 2 Docility, 7stGlb • ... 3 Won by half a length. Timo, lmin Olsec. Dividend, £2 G3. The substitution of the metal nib for tho old-fashioned goose-quill appears to have awakened in the late Cardinal .Newman something more than a. mere sentimental regret. In a letter to the late Sergeant Bellasiß in 1871, printed in Mr Edward Bellasis's memorials of his father just published by Messrs Burns and Oateß, the Cardinal says ;— " I have a pen which writes so badly that it reacts upon my composition and my spelling. How odd this is : but it is true. I think best when I write. I cannot in the same way think while I speak. Some men are brilliant in conversation, others in public speaking. But then, if it is a bad pcn — a stoel pen ? That'is my case just now, and thus I find mybrain yon't work; mtich as I wish it. Therefore you must take' pity on me, and 6end me, a !: otter ans^Yor, than I a question."