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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 8, 10 January 1876, Page 2

On the second day of the Wairarapa races, Koran was beaten easily by Fishhook, an occurrence which created the greatest surprise in Wellington, for manifestly at the " big" meeting, Fishhook could not race Korari on aoy terms. However, the beating was attributed to Korari having bolted, and no more was thought of the matter. Bat according to the Wairarapa Standard, there are very strong reaions for supposing that another of those swindles which occasionally scandalise the turf has been perpetrated, and we republish elsewhere what the local paper says on the subject. At present we withhold any comments. We regard Mr Redwood as an honorable sports-, man. His conduct for years proves that, and we are confirmed in the opinion by circumstances which took place at the Wellington meeting io connection with this very horse. Yet, if an owoer bo incapable .of acting as a blackleg, frequently his trainers and jockeys are the reverse, and he is responsible for their acts if he condone. It is his duty to make a searching inquiry into the circumstances, and punish the offender if anything " crooked " has been going on. So far aa we know, Mr Redwood has not done this, and it is now the duty of the stewards of the Wairarapa race meeting to bestir themselves. They have accepted the honor of office, and the public for whom they act and are supposed to protect, demand that they shall do tbeir duty and vindioate the purity and honesty of the turf, so far as it lies in their power to do so.—N. Z. Times. There are, says the Adelaide Observer, few more pleasing sights in the world than that of a rosy, cheeked merry milkmaid, with her pail,, surrounded by her gentle, lowing, sleekcoated, shapely animals. But so far as the present generation of colonial girls is concerned, milking may be regarded as almost a lost art. A similar tendency is so strongly shown in America that in reference to this decline in rural accomplishments a Dr Cross writes as follows: — "I am sorry to report, as a result of investigations that a large proportion of the girls of the country, and of those brought up on farms, are growing to womanhood without learning to milk ; indeed, with these it is becoming a losfc art. Even young men who have no prospect of success, except Buch as shall come by their own labor, cannot milk. To milk a cow seems to be a dreadful thing, for she has horns and can hook, and certainly she can kick, and kicking hurts, so the work is performed by the old folks, who learned thousands of years old, when the world was barbaric, and they, the young folks, sit in the house, possibly at work, but more likely reading novels, or playing the piano. Tbq question, arises, wha« is

going, to be dona when the old folks die T 'I. know that, this cannot lost, long;/ Ttweny years ago, a pound of batter barely bought a yard of calico ; pow.it will bay three or, four yards, •nd it wiji bay -three or four pound" of , ■tigar, and half a gallon of tnolafeHS, and cloth enough for a shirt. Formerly a laborer could earn a pound of butter by working a single hour ; now be must work, three good hours. It seems to me clear enough that if things go on in this way, in ten or fifteen years batter will bring 75 cents or 1 dollar a pound, unless it goes out of ure entirely, except on a few farms where the young folks shall be so abused as to be made to milk ; and cream to be put on strawberries will be out of the question. The new-fashioned butter made of beef euet, buttermilk, and eggs, comes in at the right time as a judgment on the young folks who are afraid cowi will hook and kick." "

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