NOTES FROM ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 248, 5 December 1873, Page 3

NOTES FROM ST. BATHANS.

December 1. The Eace Committee have issued their programme for the annual meeting on the 26th and 27th instant. The events are quite as numerous as on previous occasions, but there is a considerable fallingoff in the value of the stakes ; still there is sufficient inducement for the entry of a large number of second and third-class horses, seeing that the winners of former years are debarred from competing for

• most of the events.' On account oi the kg Absence of similar attractions, throughout tike district during the holidays, a much (larger gathering than usual is anticipated, -p. IThe time-honored Hospital Eace, in aid M the funds of the District Hospital— ™ I which, by the way, appears to have be- It r coroe unfashionable at recent meetings at in /Naseby—is, lam glad to see, still in its ea usual place at the foot of the programme. at All honor to the Committee for this. Pleasure seekers will thus have an opportunity afforded them of assisting in some ~ slight degree to alleviate the sufferings, • ■ and gladden the hearts, of their less fortu- 1 nate fellow-workers, detained, alas ! on o:

beds of suffering during the Christmas n festival of 1873. But a truce to sentiment si while on the subject of horse-racing. Mr. « P. Hanrahan, of the Ballarat Hotel, who _ has provided the creature comforts oil the ° course for vears past,, is again the sue- ' cessful tenderer for the right to the refreshment booth, at exactly double the ° price paid for the privilege last year. li !It appears that the proposed investiga- t tion by the Board of Enquiry into the t i objections to the sale of the township is g ■ not to take place after all- The matter r ! came on for discussion at a meeting of the ; Waste Lands Board held on Thursday J * last, when, on the suggestion of Mr. ] b Bastings, its further consideration was re- I > ferred to the Government. * Mr. Basting' ( ) will visit the" district some time this- i month, and will, on behalf of the Govern- i - ment, in enquiry into the -sub- 1 - -ject. This arrangement should be- satise factory to the business commupityj-and to ! 3 the.,.miners also-^a'very .large Majority' of e whom;are in favor of the'sale. .Mr.. Basth ings is a thorough business man—a sworn t enemy to red tape,, and .he will, doubtless rr make short work of the matter. As the ™. subject is creating a large amount of intee rest here, you will confer a'fayor by pubri lishing in extenso the proceedings of the >r Board at their last meeting, so far as it re•e lates to St. Bath an?, as reported in the rn- 4 Dailv. Times ' of the 28th ult. W 1 I hope the female of tj+e name of s, Guppy, wWie letter on. tho bfead quesat tlon will stick ig to her I(>ss abusive. There i^^^^^^^^^^wc-cusing in".* J

iltick to your camp oroti \tr«. Gappy if. js you say, you can make your loavos at ■ a pound. It will pay you better .than wiiting long-winded stories about homea's rights.