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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1581, 14 December 1885, Page 2

The postal notes system comes into operation m this colony after the Ist January next, when postal notes for fixed sums from Is to £1 will be sold at all money offices m New Zealand, the charges ranging from id.to 3d, The de« moninations of postal notes have been so arranged that any sums of shillings and sixpences up to £1 may be transmitted by means of not more than three notes, and where other amounts of pence are desired, unobliterated stamps may be affixed to the back of any one postal note and the amount of the note and the valuo of the stamps will be paid. Postal notes will only be payable' at money, order offices iti New Zealand. — Post For a Sunday morning the race-course yesterday • presented a rather animated appearance. At about 6 o'clock there could not have been le3s than 100 present, and as the secretary of the club remarked if it was a prayer-meeting- that; was being held at that hour of the day the attendance would have been somewhat different. Besides the horse race a number. of foot races were indulged^ in, and things kept going til! about 8 o'clock. The betting did not reach to a very high pitch, and no accidents happend. The caretakers we believe made a charge of Is admission. One of the witnesses m the Edendale Sunday. liquor-selUng -case", 'heard m the Police Court recently^ :.wa? r loud m his demands for a sum sufficient, to cover hii expenses. He. Svas allowed his railway fare, but protested . that he should at least receive £4 to coyer his loss of, time, &c. Inspector Buckley, however, pointed out that his evidence had laid him open to a penalty of £4, he having stated that he fasely represented himself . to be a honafide traveller for the purpose of obtaining drink, and the gentleman, it tis needless to say, " subsided.'* The inspector remarked that it was not generally known that such a punishment could be inflicted under the Licensing Act for misrepresentation of the kind. The United Press Association, Limited, of New Zealand is quite unique amongst i limited liability companies. The total subscribed capital is only '.£313, and the amount actually called up is only £39 2s Gd, but the amount to credit of profit and loss account is £2113 183 4d, while tho debts owing. are £68 10s more., Tbia amount has accumulated m five years, no profits have been divided. ' * The totalisator has become such* 'an abominable nuisance- at our race meetings (writes "Mercutio " m the Auckland Herald) that those who previously attended the course for the sake of witnessing the racing alone are now geelcing other amusements on race days. It is impossible to imagine the source from which the numerous pounds which the greasy larrikin " pops on " his favourite spring, but it is shrewdly suspected that they are not come by honestly. I'm afraid we are giving our young boys a very injudicious and hurtful love of gambling, for which we will suffer when times are harder, .and they have more diracuHy m getting their pounds to invest. Were it not that .there js powerful influence behind it, it would doubtless have been stopped ere this; but I hope yet to see it closed and the ready-money bookmaker turned off tW course. The ordinary bookmaker, if pfoperly licensed and kept within certain bounds, is quite sufficient to satisfy the general public, and it is certainly less objectionable, both as a tempter of youth and as a crowd collector, than the totalisator, which needs speedy legislation to suppress. •