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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 11, 17 April 1885, Page 3

Mr Hiiultain, clerk of the K.M. Curt, is absent to-day from duty on ii holiday, having obtained, leave of absence. The Mayor of Marton lias convened a public meeting for nt-xt Saturday ov- uiiig to «io-ai with the matter of a public demonstration on the occasion of turning the first sod of the Central Railway at that end. Gerald Massey has boon lecturing m Blenh'.-iin on '' The Historic Jesus, and the Mythical Christ." The admiasiou wss free, and the atfcudance small. Wrrites " Flaneur" m the Wanganui Herald — Tho drawer of Rnbiua m Uobjn Hood's „ Consultation " oil the Great Autumn Handicap ha«l to lay Dan O'Brien £500 of the prize to get a start, if the Referee and " Actoeon " are right. The drawer of the favourite (Trenton) would not accommodate Dan, and had the grim satisfaction of getting the non-starter's . share ! These Canterbury folks are very keen after " the greed," as the bookies term it. I remember something of this sort happening nt Bulls one year over Marituna, and Mr Delamaiu, who was m charge of her, got a rare loastinjr over it, and then never got the fifty pounds the drawers of the mare laid him to nothing about her. as the person they gave it to to pay over forgot to do bo I