Rangitikei Notes.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11841, 11 February 1903, Page 2

Rangitikei Notes.

From Our Own Correspondent. MARTON, Tuesday. Mr J. MoOheaney. has signed the contract for the Marton Jockey Club buildings at about £850. These include public stand j (partly seated and partly stepped), also boxes, stalls, totalisator house feretory s office, press rooms, etc., in fact all the appointments except the grandstand, which, though already designed, will not be erected before next meeting. The appointments are not elaborate, but are substantial an.l convenient, and to a certain extent on^ the j lines of work carried out by the architect, Mr James, on the Feildmg course. The. judge's box will be similar to the one designed by Me James for the Christchiirch Jockey Club, but slightly smaller. The aalvanised iron-fencing, picket and post and rail fencing are included in the contract, j The Marton Band warden part^ on Wednesday starts at 2 o'clock. The prizes don- J ated are very good, and even this afternoon j fresh ones. ar.e-eoming forward. For most of the" boys' and girls' races there will be jm nomination. < „ ~{ -, A man giving the name of Harry bmifck -was arrested by Constable Black last evening and charged with stealing a^ suit of clothes from Messrs White and Co. s and a hat from the New Zealand .Clothing Factory Mr Bush, an assistant, at Messrs White's, discovered the man making ott with the ai-ticle* mentioned, and after a, chase caught up to him in Mr McCheaney s old timber yard, and sent for Mr Black, who to-day barged tJie prisoner before Messrs Mconald and Sutelitte. JPs.P., from whom he received a sentence of two months imprisonment. ■