HORSE RACING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1988, 25 January 1907, Page 3

HORSE RACING.

Pross Association. AVELLINGTON, last night. Tho weather was fuio for the second day’s racing. 'J' 1 ? 1 ’ 0 was " moderate attendance. ihe sum ot £17,202 was put through tlio machine to-day (including £1553 on the double which paid £29 17s, on the Summer and City Handicaps). Results:— AVallaeevillo Hack Hurdles: Outer 1, Lull 2, AA’itu! 3. Also ran: Pawn and Aotea. AA’on easily by a length and a half. Time. 2.50 1-5. Div., £2 16s. . • , . , , Melrose Handicap: Arc‘Light 1, Probable 2, Aeolus 3. Also ran: Flotilla and AA’irral. There was a bail start, AA’irral being left at the post. Probable letl into the straight, but at the distance Arc Light came up anti won by a length anti a quarter. Time, 1.29. Div., £8 2s. Kolburnc Stakes: Chatterer 1, Devonia 2, Sandix 3. All started; won easily by a length. Time, 1.29 2-5. Divs., £3 8s anti £1 4s. Summer Handicap: Sir Tristram 1, Fontenoy 2, Polyanthus 3. All started. Fontenoy and Mystification ran in front to the turn, where Sir Tristram came through and won by half a length. Time, 1.40 4-5. Divs., £6 10s and £3 6s. City Handicap: Pink ’Un 1, Re-plete-2, Coition Gate 3. Also started: Ballarat and Delamere. This was a food race, won by a length. Time. 1.14 2-5. Div., £2 7s.

Proposal Stakes: To Kainui 1, Playmate 2, Alirotta 3. All started hut Ilarita. Won easily by two lengths. Time, 1.2 3-5. Divs., £7 Is and £2 2s. Hopeful Stakes: Finery 1, Lamsilorff 2, English Rose 3. All started. Finery led all tho way, and won easily. Time, 49 2-5. Divs., £2 and £2 6s. Kaitoko Handicap: Sea King 1, Sunbonnot 1 2, AA’illiam 3. All started but Ivuku. Sea King got well away and was never headed, winning by two lengths. Time, 1.14 3-5. Divs., £3 13s and £8 10s. The following are the Wellington Club’s weights for Saturday: Afungaroa Hack Hurdle Handicap, of. 10U sovs. One mile and a half: Lull 11.4, Faro 11.3, AA’ind 11. Outer 10.6, Lavinia 10.6, Para 10.5, Nani 10.4, Bandmaster 10.1, Champion 9.10, Matakokiri 9.3, Aotea 9.0, Golden Comb 9.0, Liberator 9.0. January Handicap, of 110 sovs. One mile: Exmoor 9.0, Probable 8.7, Mirral 8.5, Savoury 8.5, Rillemaid 8.3, Flotilla 8.3, Blythmaid 8.3, Intelligence 8.3, Grand Slam 8.1, Golden Cairn 7.13, Arc Light 7.13, Fontenoy 7.13. Alataari 7.11, Aeolus 7.11, De Witte 7.9, Stratagem 7.7, Dulcinea 7.3, White Ribbon 7.3.

Ponekc Hack Handicap, of 100 sovs. Seven furlongs: Pull Rate 9.0. Chatterer 8.12, Golden Cairn 8.12, Silken Rein 8.10, Kumu 8.6, Devonia 8.3, Compass 7.12, Flower Girl 7.6. Kaniku 7.5, Alerrie Rose 7.2, Silver Shell 7.2, Latloy 7.2, La Torpedo 6.12, Merriwai 6.12, Snndia ,6.12, Skye 6.7, Fint Gun 6.7, Hiro 6.7, Fascination 6.7, Luvilla 6.7. AV.R.C. Handicap, of 400 sovs. One mile and a quarter: Achilles 9.11. Paritutu 8.8, Signalman 8.6, Armistice 8.5, Submarine 8.3, King Billy 8.3, Zimmerman 8.2, Blaster Delavel 8.0, Pink ’Un 7.12, St. Joe 7.10, Clanchattan 7.0, AVirral 7.0, Blythmaid 7.0. Eden 6.10, Grand Slam 6.9, Intelligence 6.9, Delamere 6.9, Ellerton 6.9, Rillemaid 6.9, Royal Blue 6.9, Royal Blue 6.7, Douche 7.10, Sir Tristram 7.9, Polyanthus K 7, Ghoorka 7.4, Apa 7.4, BourraSque 7.4. Mystification 7.3, Aboriginal 6.7, Alalmranui 6.7, Aeolus 6.7, Operetta 6.7, Highlander 6.7, Dulcinea 6.7, Southern Cross 6.7. Metropolitan Handicap, of 200 sovs. Six furlongs: Alunjeet 9.11 . Pink ’Un 8.11, Signalman 8.10, King Billy 8.7, Ballarat 5.7, Marguerite 8.3, ‘ Golden Gate 8.0, Sir Tristram S.O, Delamere 7.12, Medallist 7.11, AVirrall 7.2, Fontenoy 7.2, Intelligence 7.0 Eden 7.0, Golden Cairn 7.0, Sea King 7.0, Aboriginal 6.11, Kuranaka 6.7, Alaliutu 6.7, AVhite Star 6.7, Savoury 7.7, Loftus 7.6, Replete. 7.4, Clanchattan 7.4, Piobable 7.2, Scotch Reel 6.7. Red Cross 6.7, Gyrene 6.7, AVhite Ribbon 6.7. Fitzherbert Handicap, sovs. Eive furlongs: Downfall- 9.7, Finery 9.0, Golden Crest 8.12, Pearl Reef 8.8, fluid AVife 7.11, Lamsdorff 7.6, Happy Maid 7.3, English Rose 7.0, Signor 6.10 Prism 6.4 U, Research 6.10, Swallow 6.10, Adventure 6.10, Chniwav 6.10, Norsdorff 6.10, Remark 6.7', Vasa 6.7, Theresa 6.7. Pencarrow Hack Handicap, of 100 sovs. Six furlongs: Alataari 9.4, Full Rate 8.13, Chatterer 8.11, Tuoono 8.11, White Star 8.11. Sea King 8.11, Armamento 8.7, AVailethe 8.4, The Seer 8.0, Probability 7.11, Sharkeyue 7.2, Chicane 7.2, Playmate 7.2, Seamen 7.2, Colleen 7.2, Erl King 7-0 Pytchlev 6.12, Culmination 6.12 Bai'ley 6.9, Saga 6.7 bun bonnet 7.9, Scotch Keel ( .9, Gold 1 icld 7.9, AA’illiam 7.9, AVhite Lie i.o. Silver Shell 7.4, Stepmar .6.1, ,-apa 6.7, Pluck 6.7. Aloata 6.7, Hiilsong 6.7.

NATURAL DISTURBANCES. Dealing with the Jamaica disaster the N.Z. Herald states: So far from there being anything alarming in this idea of world-wide disturbance it is only when civilised men grasp tlie idea in all its bearings that they can perceive the 1 folly of alarm or panic. The development of the nervous system, of modern civiiistrfcioii) tlic spicjicliiig out over the lands and seas occupied and traversed by civilised men of the.telegraph and cables lines which now knit together those who are within the pale, lias created, within an exceedingly short time, a sensitiveness to these external influences which before did not exist. The Eartli was always affected by them, ust as it is now, but Man did not enow it. Volcanoes flung their fiery dust to the clouds and poured their molten. rock over moor and forest.. Storms swept over islands and continents and laid low the trees of the forest and tlie houses of gathering towns. Torrential rains flooded rivers and submerged valleys and lowlands. Earthquakes shook the seemingly solid earth and great earthquake waves lifted themselves against 'populous coasts, All this has gone on ever since mail -appeared on the earth, and longer, a.s we know from tlio indisputable testimony of the rocks, from the records written on the eartli itself. But in the far past, men knew nothing beyond wliat happened to themselves or to their immediate neighbors and latterly only learned of distant storm and tempest, earthquake and tidal wave, by slow and uncertain communication, With the facilities of a hundred years ago. it would have taken months for England to learn that Kingston had been overthrown ; hardly yet could Washington have been informed that San Francisco bad been destroyed ; men would never hear of the typhoon in tlie Philippines excepting as a sailor’s yarn; and only as a traveller’s tale would the world hear of the wintry weather in the Covennes. To-day, when anything worthy of notice liapens within the ken of civilisation, it is flashed to and fro along the wires, published in tho daily press, read while the news is warm by tlie millions of civilised men and women. So that we have begun to realise that the Earth is periodically shaken by influences too stupendous for conception—and can find comfort in tlie sure and certain knowledge that as it is now so it lias always been. The Waikato and the Thames may rise in flood ; Jamaica may shake and Kingston fall in ruins ; California may quiver ; a tidal - wave may sweep along the Japanese Coast ; the South of France may freeze and tlio continent of Australia scorch ; but the Earth swings • along without any