ELEVATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 17

ELEVATION.

v . (By San Francisco—Stepfcldfc.) Elevation was a Brilliant performer on tho turf. As a two-year-old liis winnings totalled £1310, whilo as a Uireo r ycar -old ho bettered this, his earnings amounting to £2175. This three-year-old record is well worth giving. "Won lung Edward Handicap, £150; second Hawlce's Bay Guineas, £40; fourth New Zealand Cup, despite- a bad tumble which liiany good judges thought alono stopped him from carrying off tho big prize; won Derby at tho samo meeting, £700; won Canterbury Cup at samo meeting, £500; second Jubilco Cup at samo meeting, £75; .won Flying Stakes (Feilding), £350; won Manawatu Stakes, £350—Five wins, twice Becond, and only onco unplaced out of oight starts. Ho is now at' the stud, and liie popular ownor is vory hopnful of hie fiuo liorso proving as Bnccpssful, w) a ike oa towsa as brilliaat oa tho raciag track, .

solo direction of the negotiations on the part of the Natives, took/your father to sco your present property, by way of tlio Whare.kaka Plain; going up as far as tho Dry Kivcr, and then through the bush to Kopungarara. I cannot remember who were of this party, but I have- no recollection of being.one myself. AH I do remember is that they mado a groat slaughter of wild pigs— some- 40 in two days. Tho boundaries and -rent —in both cases £12 a year —having boon settled by your father and Clifford and. Pava-

6our with the.Natives'for /Wharekaka. and Kopungarara,-it was agreed that they should bring' their stock up as soon , as possible, and -wo- returned to Wellington ,by tho same route as we came. ''.' ,i ' -'..'V I have some ..recollection, however, that .Vavasour, .remained, behind for some days at the pah at the mouth of tho lake after wo had started on our return, and I think ho there met Purvis Russell, who had just. como with tho 'samo object as ourselves. :.About the same tinio a settler of the name- of Duko made an arrangement with tho Natives to run cattle at Otaraia.