WAIMATE MEETING.
At the Waimnle races on Saturday, Snowdrift won the Hurdles and Hollywood tit Patrick's Handicap. The latter winner paid a dividend of £16 4s.
As aq indication of the uneasiness inspired m Austria by the massing of Russian troops on the frontier, and of the general belief m the imminenoe of war, it may be mentioned that the demand for Kussian grammars and dictionaries m. Vienna is greater than the booksellers can Bupply, and that the offloers m the army are applying themselves with all dihgenoe to learn the language of the enemy. We may add that m Germany a knowledge of Kussian is a sine q\& noil for admission to the Bta£f of the army, and that Prince Bismarck speaks it fluently, as also does Count voa Woltke, as a matter of course,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1793, 19 March 1888, Page 2
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136WAIMATE MEETING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1793, 19 March 1888, Page 2
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