FINAL PAYMENTS

Grey River Argus, 26 April 1911, Page 7

FINAL PAYMENTS

JNiorth Island Challenge Stakes, 1911, seven furlongs— Penates, Orton, Masterpiece, Counterfeit, Madam Madcap, Flitaway, Bronze, Pierene, Mazurka, Danube, Gipsy Belle, R.N.

U T^y Gordon), Rouge (St. Cyr mare), Peter Pan, Aphaea, St Petersoury, Sunburnt, Vice Admiral, "Sandeira, Culprit.

N.Z. ,St. Leger Stakes, 1911, one miie and- three-quarters— B.g (by Eton), Cyreneinne, Nithsdale, Mira, Kfiosteri, Danube, St. Bees, King Soult. •••■••

The sight of a number of healthy monkey "babies" evidently favourably impressed Mr. A. Le Soeuf during- his visit to the Newtown Zoo. "Over in Sydney," he declared, "we would advertise a monkey "baby," and people would come in crowds to see it." Mr Le Soeuf added that no young- monkeys had been reared in the Sydney Zoo for several years. Monkeys will not rear a family when they are disturbed by continual noises, and quietude is unknown in the Sydney Zoological Gardens. The rumble of tramcars and the clamour of their bells effectively distui'b the tranquility of the animals that, tenant the institution.

The town clerk of Foxton, Mr Fraser, has established a record- by collecting- every penny of the rates due before the end^ of the financial year for the eighth consecutive year. In a period of nine years only £1 has been written off.

There is reported 'to be a growing: demand for houses in the suburbs of Wellington^ A member of the City Council told a reporter last week that recently there were fifteen empty houses in Broklyn. Last week no fewer than nine of them were let. All fc»f 'the 1 'tenants!, (the infornilarit stated, came from a distance. It is not merely a matter o ' f their shifting from one house to. another in the same suburb. .