SPORTING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1567, 27 November 1885, Page 4

SPORTING NEWS.

(PER ffNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Friday. Wellington Racing Club Races, today. Weather beautiful. Attendance small. Flying Stakes. Revoke... ... ... ... ... 1 Rumour ... ... ... ... 2 Minerva >.. ■»..- - -.r; r.. 3 Von by a head. Time, lmin 18^sec. Dividend £10.

• Mr Mowleui requests us to state there will be a sports committee meeting of the Friendly Societies' this evening at 8 o'clock. As we cjo to press wo learn by cable that Mr Gladstone has been re-elected for Midlothian. Peter Robinson, the proprietor of several of tlie most famous drapers' establishments of London, has given notice that on tlie final passage of the Criminal Law Amendin nt Bill lie will discharge every one of the hundreds of girls under 16 years of age now m his employ. Boys under the same limit of atje will also be discharged. It is belioved that many employers of large numbers of young girls will imitate his example. When Mr Hulke's letter of resignation was read at the meeting of tho Education Beard yesterday, the Chairman : oxpn.sßed regret at loosing his services. Mr Shannon thought it a great pity Mr 11 alke's services could not be rptajm ( d, as he was ft man ot' exceptional ability. The. Wellington morning, paper IJinconicallv remarks : — "Notwithstanding tho Mayoral election yesterday thero was not a single inebriate m the lock-up last night." There is some chanca of tha barque Hudson being got off. It is not thought she is injured. Some of her cargo had to be jettisoned. The fivst instalment of the property tax was due and payable yesterday. The Key R. S. Bnnn, of Palmerston North, will shortly deliver a lecture m Marton. Mr Bruce, M.H.R. has con sented to take the chair. The annual meeting of the ManftWJitn County Council was held on Wednesday when Cr Tli3'nne was re-elected chairman, at a salary of £100 a year. Mr Forbes informs us that the test made yesterday of stone brought m by Messrs Macarthur and Bartholomew did not result m any show of metal being obtained. More of the stone reinains qn hand to be tried. — Herald. The New Zealand Herald understands that Mr Halcombo, who has been for several years manager of the operations of the Patetere Estate, leaves shortly for Wellington, and will probably, take up his residence again at Feilding, The Tauranga Evening News says : — "The blight that has so prejudicially ■affected the peach trees for the last three years appears to be dyiner out. The peach trees show no signs of being affected by the blight so far, and where the trees have been preserved from its effect m past years they are bearing heavy crops of fruit,"