NAPIER PARK R.C. NEW YEAR MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 229, 13 December 1894, Page 8

NAPIER PARK R.C. NEW YEAR MEETING.

NOMINATIONS —BY WIRE. Trial Handicap Hurdles of 50 sovs, onemile and a half. —Waterlily, Waipuku, Lobelia,. Sandfly, Hopeful, Alecto, Jewel. Midsummer Handicap of 50 sovs, one mile. —Goosander, Ephimede, Wheriko, Lady Somnus, Krina, Waitress, Searchlight, Meteoro, Barbelle, Musketeer, Middle Park, Spinfeldt, Link. Two-year-old Handicap of 70 sovs, 5 furlongs.—Wikitoria, Combermere, Maid Marion, Dugong, Beauharnais, Athene, Woodlander, Spruce. New Year Handicap of 130 sovs, one mile and a half.—Blarney, Leontini, Rosefeldt, The Shrew, Planet, Golden Plover, North Atlantic, Lyrebird. Handicap Hurdles of 80 sovs, two mHes.— Kapua, Tiritea, T. Rose, Alecto, Dainty, Waipuku. Flying Handicap of 70 sovs, six furlongs.— Zanella, Ua, Golden Plover, Searchlight, Krina, The Shrew, Musketeer, Link, Nixie, Spindrift. Settlers Handicap of 50 sovs, once round.— Rayfeldt, Wheriko, Lady Somnus, Miss Patriarch, Waitress, Morag, Barbelle, Meteoro, Spinfeldt. Greenmeadows Handicap of 50 sovs, sevenfurlongs. —Marino, Golden Plover, Planet, Musketeer, Nixie, Spindrift, Link, Barbelle.

Ambrose Thomas, the composer of “ Mignon,” is said to have discovered the Mignon of his dreams in Mdlle. Nikita, who is at present sus. taining the character at the Paris Opera Comique,