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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 32, 29 November 1901, Page 4

The Melbourne Cup winner*, Revenue was bred by the late Mr W." Kj Wilson at St. Albans, and was a good two-year-old. His- stable companion, Saorn, was allowed to represent Mr Wilson in the Maribyrnong Plate, and he won, but according to home trials Revenue could have done what Scorn did, and he won two "nursery handicaps at the meeting. In the autumn Revenue just won the Sires' Produce Stakes, but he only ran because of S.";orn taking cold* and being unfit to start. This race seemed to upset Revenue, and he ran last in the Ascotvale Stakes, and was so cranky in the following spring that he was gelded. When Mr Wilson died, Mr Macdonald bought Revenue for 725 guineas. Last year he was backed for the Cup, but on being brought to Flemington lie went off his feed and ran badly in three races. This year Mr Macdonald decided not to risk racing him before the Cup, and he did not leave Mordialloc until Cup morning, but the horse is so well now-that the probabilities are he would? have taken no notice of a race, and it would have done him

g iod. According t.> an exchange Tattersall has devised a method of getting round the Federal Postal Bill. It is reported that arrangements are to be made with the banks, by which any intending subscriber will be able to pay in his 5s or more to the credit of Tattersall, for any sweep he may desire, and to receive a ticket through the same channel before the event comes off. Tattersall intends to provide a clerk for each head office of the banks for the purpose of issuing tickets. How true it is that all the brains and ingenuity seem to be on the side of S itaiu

William Beach,, ex-champion sculler of the world, is. now a New South Wales Justice of the Peace, and sits regularly on the Bench.

" I often feel I do not know what I should do without the Salvation Army," remarked Judge Conolly at Auckland, apropros of cases where there is an apr parent desire on the part of the accused persons to lead better lives if they be given a chance to do so, ihstdad of being sent to goal. His Honor said there were many .cases of homeless and friendless people being cared for by the Army.

At the Gisborne Police Court last week Edmund Charles Red ward was committed for trial oh a charge that he did administer to a lad named William Soloman a' noxious thing--to ■wit. tjeer.

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