AN EXCITING RACE.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 12, 17 June 1893, Page 3

AN EXCITING RACE.

An exciting race was recently described by the Tuapcka Times. A mining area was, lately thrown oqen for application at Horseshoe Bend, and no sooner was the decision given than there was a stampede from the precincts of the court and a race for the location of the disputed ground, such as has never before been seen on the road between Roxburgh and Horseshoe Bend. The distance is fully thirteen miles, and it was covered within forty-five minutes. One of the parties made a bee-line for the post office, and having telephoned his mates on the river to peg out the ground concluded ho held the winning hand. The “other side,” after over-turning a. perambulator in the street, and knocking over a couple of law-abiding citizens who attempted to question his escape from the court, got on his fiery steed, and left Roxburgh with a crowd of stray dogs heeling him up, and all (lie householders at their doors looking in stoncy astonishment and wondering whether the local constable was still alive. As he cleared the outskirts of the town, his hat and himself parted company, but he heeded it not, and Hew over the ground, all the time believing that the other party was somewhere close in his rear and rapidly over-hauling him. It was only when he arrived at the disputed territory that he learned the simple artifice of the opposing party. By the telephoned instructions of the latter, pegs had been put down on one side of the river, whereas they should, in order to comply with the law, have also been put down on the margin of-the ground in the river. This the colonial John Cfilpin saw at a glance, and as he had a boat at his disposal, he lost no time in putting in his pegs, and he is now confident that he holds the winning cards.