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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 257, 15 January 1848, Page 2

ANNIVERSARY FETE!!! 1848.

Under the Vatronage of His Excellency the GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF ! ! !

GENERAL COMMITTEE. Mr. M. Asher Mr. W. S. Loxley Major Baker W. Lyon Mr. J. Boulcott , A. M'Donald . W. M. Bannttyne J. M'Beth K.'Bethune G. Moore C. "Clifford Hon. H. W. Petre C. Cator Mr. W. B. Rhodes Dr. Dorset W. Spinks Major D. S. Durie C. Schultze Mr. R. Davis Jas. Smith "-. Wm. Fitzherbert G. Scroggs Wm. Hickson C. Sharp . , G< iHunter- j J. M. Taylor J. O. Hamley J. Varnham • •P. M. Hervey ' G. Young ' J. Jones ' Col. Wakefield G. D. Lardner , Mr. R. Waitt B. Ling " ■ W. -E.Wallace Mr. J. H. Wallace.

With power to add to their number.

'? f PROGRAMME OF SPORTS To take place on Te-Aro, MONDAY, January 24.

.., , ' ' Hurdle Race. Prize, £25 — to be increased should the funds aUow-7-entrances added. Conditions. , .. Catch weights ; three to start, or no race. Entrance, £2 :2. Second horse to save his stakes ; best of heats twice round the Course over hurdles, 3 feet 6 inches high : no distance, but every horse shall go twice round the course, taking all the leaps, or he will not be allowed to start for the second or following heats. The owner of such horse to bis a subscriber of £1 : 1 to the fund ; and any horse going over the hurdles previous to the race to be disqualified. No person will be allowed to enter more than one horse bonafide his property.

Hack Race. - Prize, j£20 — Entrances added. Conditions.

Catch weights ; three to start, or no race. Entrance, £1 : second horse to save his stakes ; best of heats twice round the course and a distance. The Owner of each horse to be a subscriber of at least ,10s. 6d. to the fund. — No horse entered for the Hurdle Race shall be allowed to enter for the Hack Race; and no person shall be allowed to enter more than one horse bonafide his property. Sub-Committee — Mr. C. Clifford Mr. C. Cator 'Htra. H. W. Petre G. Hunter r Dr. Dorset J. M. Taylor - ■ » Mr. W. Hickson. ' t , plerk of the Course— Mr. W. E. Wallace.

Aquatic Sports. SAILING BOATS. Ist. Match.

For all boats under twenty tons. Prize, £14. Entrance, j£l— added. Four boats to start or no race.

2nd. Match.

For < boats not decked under ten tons. Prize, £9. Entrance 15s. — added. Four boats to start .or.no race. r , '-' , 3rd. Match. For all Dingys or Skiffs. Prize, £5. Entrance 10s. — added. Four boats to start or no race. In, the event of these entries not being made, the funds will be available for pulling boats or other _, purposes. N.B. — The second boat to save her stakes. Sub-Committee — Mr. W. B. Rhodes Mr. John Jones C.W. Schultae W. Spinks G. Scroggs G. Young Capt. Sharp G. Allen

Mule Race. . Prize ,i€s— entrances added. Sub-Committee — , T jMr,«R., Waitt ) , Ms. John M'Beth J. Varnham W. S. Loxley Mr. R. Davis.

Pony Race. Prize, j£s : s—entrances5 — entrances added.

Sub-Committee for this Race the same as for the Mule'RaceJ ' ' ' ''

*? :• Rural Sports. 3^ £}.h — to be divided by the Sub-Committee into 'PVizes^ ' Sub-Committee — -Mt. J. O. Hamley Mr. P. M. Hervey <» . J. Boulcott • R. DavU _ ... _ , Mr. R. Waitt.

The General Committee will meet at Barrett's Hotel on Monday next, the 17th instant, at 8 o'clock p.m., when the respective Sub-Committees - are requested to present their reports. t All Entries to be made on Thursday Evening, the 20tb hut., between the Jtours of half-past seven and ten o'clock, p.m., at Barrett's Hotel. J. H. Wallace, ' , Secretary & Treasurer. ' Wellington,' January 15, 1848.

■■ - , STOCK. THE UNDERSIGNED "will have for Sale in about six weeks, a Cargo of superior HEIFERS and STEERS, alio 700 Maiden fflren. * " Tfcia Cargo will be carefully selected byj Charles Sidey, Esq., from the celebrated herdi of the Ute Dr. Imlay> at Twofold Bay. . ' ' .\ii -a Bethpnb 8s Hunter. ! J&e&ana?,. Wellington, -■ - ' • /> . 10th Jannary, 1848,