RACING.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIX, Issue 2053, 30 March 1900, Page 6

RACING.

M.R.C’S. MEETING. BLENHEIM, March 28 Fine weather for the opening day yesterday. £2OOl was put through the totalisator. Results : Handicap Hack Hurdles: Hotu, 114, 1; Gladstone, 10.13, 2; Morning, 95. 3. Six started. Divs. : £2 8s and £1 4s. Third Marlborough Hack Challenge Stakes, 7 furlongs : Waipuki, 9.7, 1 ; Coronea, 9.2. 2; Plainstone, 7.12, 3. Won easily. Divs. : £1 14s and £1 17s. Racing Club Handicap : Spider, 8.8, 1 ; Hillstone, 10.0, 2; Falka, 7.12,3. Four starters; good race, won by a length. Divs. : £1 16s and 18s. Maiden Hack : Fireball 1, Crown 2, Kaloo 3. Seven starters; won by a length. Divs. : £7 12s and £3 16s. Welter Hack : Hotu, 11.9, 1; Grey Ribbon, 9.13, and Wimbledon, 8.7, dead heat, 2. Six starters; won by length and a half. Divs.: £2 14sand £1 7s. Handicap Trot, 1 mile and a half: J. E. Rotciv, 29sec, 1; Sweedy, 32sec, 2; Dewdrop, 19sec, 3. Won by an easy distance. Divs. : £9 and £4 10s. Flying Handicap : Quiltina 1. Spider 2, Waipuki 3. Divs. : £1 18s and 19s. Electric Hack Handicap : Right Metal, 8.5, 1; Club Law, 7.9, 2; lota, 8.2, 3. Six starters. Won by a length. Divs.: £2 8s and £1 4s. March 29 Second day :—Fine weather and good attendance. Splendid finishes feature of day. Results : Hack Hurdles : Gladstone 1, Morning 2, Bandsman 3. Div. : £2 2s. Scurry: Wimbledon 1, St. Kimber 2, lota 3. Time: 51 2-sths. Div.: £3 16s. President’s Handicap : Right Metal 1, Hillstone 2, Spider 3. Div : £8 2s. Handicap Trot : Violet 1, Brockleigh 2, Dewdrop 3 Div. : £3 2s. Farmer’s Plate : Crown 1 ; Skylark 2; Plainstone 3. Div.: £4 14s. Telegraph Handicap : Hotu 1, Right Metal 2, Waipuku 3. Div. : £3 12. Handicap Trot : Dewdrop 1, Brockleigh 2, Sweedy 3. Div. : £5 18s. Final Hack : Grev Ribbon 1, Fireball 2, lota 3. Div.': £2 16s. NAPIER, March 27 At the Napier Park R.C’s. meeting Tire won the Cup, Coronet 2, Tirade 3, LONDON, March 27 Lincolnshire Handicap: Sir Geoffry 1, Strike a Light 2, Forcett 3. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I notice in the last issue of the Star a letter—or was it an advertisement ?—referring to scarlet fever. The writer of it, in the course of his remarks, gives a Dr. Squires on scarlet fever. All honor to Dr. Squires, or his name. But, alas, he is not in Kaikoura to verify the symptoms, and, judging from the remarks in the letter, the vast majority of the sections alluded to by the writer of what I hear called an advertisement, it would require another Squires to convince them of the presence of scarlet fever. I feel for the local discoverer of the disease, seeing what a sad position he has placed himself in. He reports seven cases captured, and says that he considers that numbers of other cases are at large uncaptured. This is very wrong, they should be run in. Why not call in the assistance of the other medical chap and the police and capture the run-aways, the fellows rampaging about the district with coats on them like boiled crayfish. Captured they should be at any cost. Futhermore, the local Squires goes on to show, in the course of his remarks, the many curses existing in Kaikoura, viz: Sections, know-alls, mild criminals—presumably educated and therefore the more to blame in his legal eyes. In fact, according to him, the whole community is rotten to the Sore. Save for a few righteous, himself

included, of course, Kaikoura would suffer the fate of ‘ Soddom and Gomorrah.’ Then he goes on to say, mark the words, ‘ Measels comes and measles goes.’ Please, Mr Editor, is this good grammar ? I am not scholar enough to know, but it sounds bad and I would like to know whether it is right or not. But scarlet-fever goes on for ever if not quarantined rigidly, and yet a section of the community made light of it. Yes. It seems to me that nothing short of a steady rise in the mortality of infectious cases will open the eyes of these miserable, wretched, uneducated, sections of the community, striking terror in their hearts and homes. Strange to say the other fellow has not caught one red fever chap yet. Oh, he can’t be doing any business or, surely, he would have caught one or two and reported them at the proper headquarters and then the sections would say, ‘ Oh, the other fellow is on the war path,’ and would come in, surrender, and lay down their arms at the feet of the gallant Captain of the Kaikoura Mounted Rifles.

Then, oh, the rejoicing ! The sections would would form into a solid square, and crush the accursed thing, aye, in less than six weeks, without any quarantine, without any cannon firing or storms to drive the enemy off our shore. The Military Medico could rest at peace, in the full knowledge that a great and glorious victory—a bloodless victory—had been gained, and the heroism of it recorded in the medical annals of Kaikoura. The valiant deeds of the campaign could be published in the Kaikoura Star and the medical newspapers, and the Commander of the Forces (a single individual, embodying everything from Brigadier General to full private) could be recommended for for the V.C. for extraordinary vigilance. I am, etc., An Absent-minded Beggar.