THE MELBOURNE CHAMPION MEETING.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 835, 9 January 1866, Page 2

THE MELBOURNE CHAMPION MEETING.

On New 'Year’s Day about 30,000 persons assembled to witness this event on the Fleming’ton Race Course. The weather was tine. The following is the result of the Champion Race :—A sweepstakes of 50 sovs.>, half forfeit, with 1500 sovs. added. Three-year-olds, 7 st. 1 lb. ; four-years, 9 st. ; five-years, 9 st. 9 lb. ; six-years and aged, 9 st. 13 lb. ; mares and geldings allowed 3 lb. Second horse to receive 100 sovs., and the third to save his stake. Three miles. Value of the stake, £2,450. Mr W. Towns’s b hj Tarragon, aged (Higgerson), 1 Mr J. Tait’s br li Volunteer, aged (Ashworth), 2 Mr Blackwellin’s br hj Panic, aged (Morrison), 3 Betting. —5 to 2 agst Panic ; 5 to 2 agst Tarragon ; 4 to 1 agst Volunteer ; 7 to 1 agst Lady Heron; and 10 to 1 each agst O. Iv., Hay and Martin, and Clove.

tive. It tried within the last few months a separate issue in Onehunga, where a portion of its daily matter appeared weekly for a time, under the title of the Onehunga Warder. Subsequently it issued a weekly in Auckland by the name of the Weekly Argus, whose hundred eyes saw only a few weeks’ light, and now the New Zealander itself has gone, as the forerunner of that unfortunate and doomed race, whose name it bore, and which is rapidly dying out in the land it has held so long.” Iron Safes. —The late conflagration in Richmond developed a curious fact. Some week or ten days after the fire the iron safe of the Enquirer office was opened, when immediately on the admission of the air the books and papers were ignited and consumed, and such was the case with all the other safes which were not in brick vaxdts. In these the contents were uninjured. The Enquirer safe, at the time it was re-opened, was cold externally to the touch. Railway Dividends. —A railway director writes to the Daily News, showing that while the traffics of English railways give evidence of continued prosperity, the dividends lately declared point in a different direction. Of the eleven principal lines only one gives an increase of one-quarter per cent., four yield the same dividend, and six give diminished dividends to the extent of from one-quarter to one and three-quarters per cent. There is an average decline of nearly half per cent. The writer attributes this to the large outlay on extensions, being mostly uncreative of new traffic, but rather competing with neighboring systems, or designed to prevent encroachment.