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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 984, 5 October 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

Sardonyx has been backed by his owner to win the V.R.C. Derby and Cup at 10,000 to 250. The racehorse Waxy has been sold to Mr. F. Wentworth, of Sydney, for £2,200. The new owner has already backed him to a large extent to win the Melbourne Cup. Mr. Chambers, an old Hawke’s Bay settler now in England, pronounces the frozen meat a success. He says the plant would only cost £lO,OOO, and Tallerman’s Company would supply transit from New Zealand at £lB a ton if guaranteed 600 tons a month. The Rev. Dr. Elhs (Anglican), of Sydney, characterises most clergymen of the present age as a time-serving and lazy lot, who, instesSTof going into the “ higft-ways and byways ” to try and influence those gone astray to good, prefer to study themselves by only visiting the rich, and what is colonially termed “ the upper ten.”