Our Illustrations.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 447, 16 February 1899, Page 14

Our Illustrations.

The Wanganui Jockey Club is always enterprising, so it was not surprising to hear that on the occasion of Lord Ranfurly’s visit to the New Zealand Rhine the stewards gave a garden party in honor of the Governor. The Wanganui course is a very pretty one, and the lawn, with its charming surroundings, is an ideal place for a social function of this description. We this week give a reproduction of a photograph taken by an artist on the day in question. His Excellency the Governor is in the centre or the Wanganui officials. • Our photographer snapped Mr Robert Wynyard, the popular and genial secretary of the Takapuna Jockey Club in a capital position. Mr Wynyard had evidently seized the opportunity to. take a few minutes’ rest from his arduous duties, and it was then the camera man came along in the nick of time. In the picture the T J.C. secretary is evidently studying deeply. Indeed, seeing that Monsignor Father Walter Macdonald had just previously vacated the seat occupied by Mr Wynyard, he might have left his Prayer Book behind him, and we should not be all surprised to learn that at the time our artist took the photograph “Bob” was improving the shining hour by reading, with fine effect, the Atbanasian Creed to the worthy assistant clerk of the scales. Mr Howard certainly looks as if he meant to profit by the lesson. We also give a picture of Rex, whose latest victory was in the Summer Handicap, run on the last day of the Takapuna Jockey Club’s Summer Meeting. The St. Leger—-Jessie gelding is in capital form just now, and will probably earn winning brackets before returning to Ellerslie. Sultan, the winner of the Borough Handicap at the Takapuna Meeting, has his picture reproduced t his week. He was taken in a quiet corner of the saddling paddock, after his victory. His owner, Mr George Rhodes, just comes in the picture, and we suppose be is rubbing his eye because he did not put a few more “ notes ” on his steed on the outside machine. Other illustrations this week are of Lillie, who won two races at Takapuna, and of Kelvin Grove, the winner of the Second Maiden Hurdles, also at Takapuna. On the theatrical page an excellent group of the Original Jubilee Singers and Virginia Concert Company is given. The group comprises not only the musical members of the company, but two additions in the shape of an all-round comedian, and a prestidigitateur and juggler, neither of whom have ever been seen in New Zealand before. On our advertising pages will be seen two excellent portraits, one of Mrs Harmston-Love, and the other of Mr Robert Love, the manager and proprietor of Harmston’s Circus.