Horse Talk.

Patea Mail, 14 October 1880, Page 3

Horse Talk.

BY LEOLINUS. , The racing season has fairly commenced, and wo shall soon bo in the midst of sport on this coast. Following hard upon the Wanganui meet comes that of the Racing

Club at Wavcrley ; and before the excitement has had time to subside, the Patea District Jockey Club meeting will have to be discussed. Nominations for, the Hurdle*'arid!'Railway’ 'Handicaps for this meeting are to be in the hands of Mr W.

Co worn, the lion, sec., on Saturday: first by 9 p.m. ; and as there are lots of local nags and the possibility of a few outsiders being entered, a good day’s sport should be witnessed, notwithstanding that the. stakes are ''small.’ The handicaps for Wanganui and Waverley are differently

framed and on a thoroughly independen basis, as although the Waverley did not apyear till after Mr Hateley’s, they were made the day before. I shall not attempt to pick out winners at this stage, but in a few clays we shall have the acceptances published and as the same horses are engaged in Wanganui a good line ought to begot as to the best goods for theWaverley-

Waitotara gathering after they have performed. At Waitotara there are four or five horses in, worky and here both our local stable-keepers have-their hands well filled. Further on Mr Powdrell has two or three good: oriea, arid at Messrs Hearn and Kennedy’s Mr Quinlivan has his two Gladiators—Redeemer and Rocket. At Hawera there is a Patea Derby representative or two, and altogether, there, is promise of some good sport. •

The Australian Colonies, —At the Sydney banquet in his honour, Sir Hercules ■Robinson referred to the progress of the Colonies, saying that he was convinced that, in 70 or 80 years, the population of the Australian group would not be less than 30,000,000 of people, ami that with this increase of numbers many difficult social and political problems would arise, the solution of which would rest with themselves. Chief among these problems would be. the relations which these

Colonics would boar to each other in the future, and the close political association with the mother country, would permit many millions of self-governing Anglo-Australians to advance in natural life, while at the same time they might remain an integral part of that Empire of which it was now their pride and privilege to form apart.