SUBURBAN NORTH RACES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 123, 25 May 1881, Page 2

SUBURBAN NORTH RACES.

There was a good attendance yesterday on the somewhat dreary and barren course on which the above races took place, it being estiniated that theirs were at least 1000 present, including a large number of ladies. The various races were started with praiseworthy pubCUialitys and the general arrangements reflected grfeat Credit iipon Mr TOpliss, the indefatigable Secretary, and the members of the Committee. One accident occurred during the Hack Race, the victim being Mr Dayman, who was riding One ot the fifteen competing horses, when it fell and tolled over on tiitm At first it was .feared lhat he had Sustained serious injuiies, but Upon betufe examined by f)r ttogefs, who fortunately had Jait arrived upo.u tile ground, it was found that he had suffered nothing worse than a severe «haktng, and lb Hay wd are glad to hear that he is sufildeiit'y recovered to be at work. There was a totalisator on the course through which £W passed during (he day, hut as the favorite generally won, the receipts of the speculators were not large. The sport waa on the whole goodj the races wete hot fast, but they were all honestly and hardly contested, and, the weather being all that could be desired, the outing appeared to be very generally enjoyed. T"he following are the results of the various events: — Maiden PlAte.— (For horses that have never won a stake of £lo or more ) 1 -istance, 1} miles; catch weights. First horse, £1 10a; second, £2 103. Mr E. Edwards' Spider 1 Mr Kerr's Te Kooti .-» 2 Mr iFowlet'd Black BoDny 3 Four others started. The three named above kept close together, and an exciting race was won by Spider by a nose. Handicap Thotting Rac^.— Distance, 2 miles. First horse, £& ; second, £I. Mr H. Burnett's Larrikin ... ... 1 Mr G. Watts' Stella ». 2 Mr Little's Black Eagle 3 Thia was a very slow race* Larrikin leading all the-way and winning dasily, owing to the others breaking. SOBtIRttAN Hoßtll IIaNDICAP PLATE.—DIB--tance, 1$ miles. First horae, £20; second, : £5 Mr Bolton's Half Oaete, aged, 9st, (Bright) 1 j Mr Blower's Doncaster, aged, Bst 71bs (Holmes) 2 Mr F. H. Blundell's Syringa, . ! syrs, Tat lQlbs, (Weudlaborn) 3 ! Half C*ste and j3oncastar made a good finish T "though the former won pretty easily by a length. Falcon fell at th» dangerously sharp turn near the winning post, throwing bis rider, Doncaster and Syringa also running off the course at the same place. The latter'a saddle slipped back from under the boy who j plockily stuck to his nag, riding the rest of the race in front of the saddle. There were 98 Bubacribera to the totalisator in this race. | HAwDicAf Huiiotß lUce. — Distance, 2 j mires, over eight flights of hurdles.; First j horse, £15; second, £2 108. MT Blower's Septimus, aged, 10it7lbs 1 Mr Edwards' Ivanhoe. aged, 9st 2 Mr Griffiths' Koaket, i yrs, Bit lOibs 3 Brlckmaker, Sultan, and Agent also staged. AU but Septimus {and Ivanboa baulked at the first hurdle, but after several tries they ultimately contrived to get over with the exception of Brickmaker, who did not seem to like jumping at all, and never was in the iac.\ Scp.imus made the puce hot all the way, and won easily, handß down. Hack Hurdle Race— Distance, 1£ mileß. First horse, £1 10s ; second horße, £2 10s. Mr Fowler's Sultan 1 Mr Newman's Daybreak ... 2 Mr Tohu'a Ti Ripa 3 Daybreak led for three-quarters of the way, when Sultan passed him, and ultimately wou easily, the others nowhere. Brickmakei as before refused the first hurdle, and then bad a race of his own. Ladies' Pubbb, of 10 sovs (with Muncaster Cup added.)-~(3entleinen riders. Welter weights for age. Distance, H miles. Mr Bolton's Half Caste (Owner) 1 . Mr Blower's Doncaster (J. Canning) 3 Mr F. H. Blundell'a Syringa (Mr W Watts) 3 This was a Bplendid race between tha two first horses, who ran neck and neck for the last quarter of a mile, both hard under the whip, Halt Cast* eventually winning by a head. Hack Race, for Saddle and Bridle.— Dis tance, l£ miles. Catch weights. " : Mr Fowler's Blink Bonny ..1 Mr E. Edwards' Spider 2 Fifteen started, and the uiual scramble ensued, but Bonny and Spider soon drew away from the othera, arid the former won a» she pleased. , Consolation Race (handicap) for all beaten ' horses.— Distance, l£ miles. First horse, £5; second, £1. Mr Blower's Doncaster ... ... 1 Mr Orsman's Brickmaker ... 2 Mr Sunley'i Abolition ... ....3 The chestnut wdn in a canter, as was exp«cted. Yji l £_ LLI j|_ L1 - — f- — mil in i ■' — ' ===

The Marlborough Exprets of Saturday says :— A splendid sample of gold was brought into Havelock yesterday, found by a party some four miles - above the Forks, Wakamarina. "The -want of a track to pack goods is much felfc. At present it is almost impossible to swag stores and tools to tbe back country. It is the . intention of the diggers, to petition Government to hare a track from the Forks to facilitate the conveyance of provisions. ■■„'-■ A good opening is preaenting itself to English enterprise in Italy. The aaministra T tion of tbe railways: of Upper Italy, has decided to obtain tbe sanction of the Mim»try of Public Works for invitiDg tenders for all the material required for 1881 and 1882* Tbi» includes, ior 1881, 24 locomotive., 60 p*Me.qger carriages, and 1040 goods trucks j for 1882, 25 locomotives, 70 passenger carriages, and 720 goods trucks. Tha earthquake statistics of tbe quarter of » century beginning with 1850 and ending with 1875, are said by Dr Julius Stride to reco& no less than 4,620 earthquakes. Most o« the 4,620 «»rtheiuake» of 1850-75 consulted of a series of shocks ; »n isolated shock seemvtb have been rare. Nearly one-fourth of these recorded eartbqutkes, no> lets than *,004; occurred on 582 different dsyi i along the Alps westward of the Rhine; while 81 •hockt were recorded on 68 different days m tbe Eastern Alps. . The large.* lathe in the world has just been erected at the St Cbamond Steelworks, in the department of the. Loire. It is de.tiaWforSh. turpibg^of iOO-ton gun. This fine piece of machinery was supplied by Sir Joseph W t hitworth and.Co., of M«n- : Chester, for no French maker conld »e found to sopply it at »nythiDg,like the pnee, or time of delirery. offered by tbat firm. ; The Auckland Star declares that in the, stomach of a heifer recently killed in i that city were tbe following articles: Seven chain links (about one inch long), seven stones of various sizes, fifteen thick screws (some Mo inches •in .length), *™to«P* Urgena'ls (some of them tbree-mcb), eightyfour iron und tin tacks, two bolts and washers, and several pieces of sharp-pointed in The Tuapeka paper has beeri^ told rather * good story in connection with the collecting of papers for the recent census. The^ sub, enumerator, white on his rounds, bad Mcaooa. to call at a Chinaman's hut, "^.fW tbe paper put* the question-'' What is yoUr : religious belief ? Are :yo* a Christian, o^ a follower of Confucius?" John rep^d"No, no. " Me Freethinker ; all same as Mister Stout. You savee," , Two splendid Arab horaea have Recently, arrived\in'Melb'otiriie;from.lndia,|o the orde^ ol Captain Ba'gih. "If they are not deposed of in Yictoria, they wiH he sent over to Tasw ropii.

Some of the more adventurous members of tlie Alpine Club, who begin to feel that they have now exhausted, the Alps, have made known their intention of exploring the h-'gh mountains in the Canterbury Province, New Zealand. Mount Cook (remarks a Gloucester paper) will quite suit their taste, as it has an elevation of ybetween 13,000 and 14,000 feet, and has never yet been scaled. The Australians make tours to New Zealand ia see the scenery, just as English and Americans tourists rush, to Switzerland in the summer months. The Dunedia Star makes the following excellent suggestion : Everbody keeps a few postage stomps by him, but hardly anybody not in business has a receipt stamp at hand When oue is wanted* Mr Gladstone has promised that the inconvenienco shall be no longer felt in Great Britain. Couldn't our Postmaster-General imitate Mr Gladstone and make one stamp available for the future both for postage and receipts ? A hovel article of export has been introduced by Messrs Swallow and Aricll, biscuit manufacturers, Melbourne. They have prepared tot transmission to Lotidon a small trial shipment of " beef biscuits," composed of a mixturfe of 40lbs bi minced fresh beef and GOlbs of the best quantity of flour. They state that 12 months ago they baked some of these biscuits as an experiment, and that they arc now perfectly good. The Argus says it is hoped that the preparation of these biscuits will prove a successful way of disposing i of some of our surplus beef and flour, and as ! the manufacturers can supply them packed in ftir-tight tins for exportation at 3d per lb j there seems to bo no reason why a market Should not be found for thom among- the poorer classes in England. The biscuits are well flavoured ahd very palatable!. r Jh3 London Examivcr expresses the opinion that the United States is enriched by the receipt each year of at least £7, 000,000 in actual coin.. That is, its estimates arc that emigrants to that couutry bring that atr.ount of money with them. As an offset to this, it ia stated that Great Britain draws from the Uuited States £10,000,000 for ocean freight, : The tiiail brides intelligence of the death, in the Transvaal, of Captain Greer, R.A., who went out to Africa last year as alde-de ounp to Sir George Strachan, Acting-Governor of the Cape." The late Captain Greer served in the NIW Zealand campaign of 18G3 i, iuclud- I intr the attack on the Gate Pah and the action at Maketu. lie received the New Z aland medal, an 1 was afterwards appointed to a battery in the 2nd Brigade. It i3 said that sharks will not bite r. swimmer who keeps bis legs in motion '■ Ii you can keep kicking longer than a shark can keep waiting you'll ba all light," says an acute observer. A Chicago p*per tells of a man who was complaining that he had invested a large ►urn of money on the Stock Exchange and lost it all. A sympathising friend asked him whether he had been a bull or a bear. He repliel. "Neither; I was a jickass."