COURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 89, 7 April 1892, Page 8

COURSING.

Mr. W. Wallace, Secretary of the Auckland Coursing Club, informs us he has received a number of programmes from Mr. Harry L. James, Secretary of the Dunedin Plumpton Coursing Meetings for 1892. These have been duly distributed in the most advantageous quarters. The Dunedin meeting is, as usual, to be held at the Forbury Park Racecourse, under the management of the Dunedin Jockey Club. The first meeting is to be held on Friday and Saturday, May 13th and 14th, when the May Cup and St. Leger are down for decision. The former is for an unlimited number of all-aged dogs at £3 10s each, and the latter for an unlimited number of puppies at £z 10s each. The Forbury Meeting is fixed for June 10th and 11th, on which dates the Forbury Cup and Juvenile Stakes will be decided. The Cup Meeting will be held on July Bth and 9th, when the Great National Cup. for an unlimited number of dogs at each, with £io added, will come up for decision, and also the Bracelet. The Champion Meeting is fixed for the 18th, 19th, and 20th August, when the Champion Stakes, Maiden Stakes, and Sapling Stakes come up for decision.

The Auckland Coursing Club’s arrangements are going ahead apace. A sub-committee from the club visited the Avondale Racecourse on Saturday last to measure and lay off the ground. Since then we hear the Secretary has received verbal intimation from the chairman of the Avondale Jockey Club that they will not consent to the centre of the course being fenced in by wire netting. It must be round the boundary. The Auckland Racing Club, noticing the evident success which has attended the efforts of the new club up to the present, have made certain proposals to a deputation of the Coursing Club which are under consideration, and further developments may be expected to take place next Tuesday. The new club have decided to accept bookmakers with a right to bet, and full membership for the season on payment of two guineas, if paid before the 30th instant, otherwise they will be required to pay four guineas.