BUSINESS NOTICES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 February 1912, Page 2

BUSINESS NOTICES

Mr E. A. W. Osborne's new advertisement of properties for sale in Shannon will he published in tomorrow's Chronicle. Additional entries for the Otiki etodt sale aw adrortteatf tadty.

The Dunedin Jockey Club Handicap was won by Routine. Outlander was second, and The Cornet third.

A Parnell retired plumber Kas .iust discovered that lie lias still something to learn. He was fined 10s nnd costs 28s for repairing a wasto pipe on his own property, when he should have employed a licensed plumber to do the work.

The decline in the value of greyhounds, following an alleged abandonment of the sport of coursing was much discussed at the Magistrate's Court (says the Press). A number admitted that the profits of the game had been in tho betting, the races for tho most part being sweepstakes. Mr Bishop, S.M., commented severely more than once, saying that, ordinarily, he was assured that sports wore taken up for their own snkes: it appeared that coursing was not a sport at all. Several witnesses, who were more or loss intimately connected with coursing. laid stress on the part the bookmakers bad played. In effect it was alleged that the abolition of the bookmaker had meant the abondonmont of coursing. Tt was no longef possible to bet easily, though one man remarked, naively, "If you know your way about, yon can 3till 'get a bet on 'sometimes."