SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 32, 8 February 1904, Page 2

SPORTING.

Y.A.T.C. AITI.MN MEETING. (Per Press Association.) (Ueceived Feb. 7, 9.22 a.m.) M.ELBOIj BNE, Feb. 7. For the first day's racing *>f the Victoria Amateur Turf Club's autuiim HKVtiug hcav.v rain was experienced. Oakli'igh Plate of 500 sovs, live furlongs and a half—Silenus (9.10) 1, Tisouhone (5.7) 2, English ltose (7.0) I*. Fifteen started. Betting : 1 to 1 Lady Doris, 7 to 1 Silenus, 10 io L English Kov.e. Silenns took command on entering the straight, mud won- in the face of a blinding rain by a length and a half. Time limn llaec. I)EFUAUDLNG BOOKMAKEIIS. WELLINGTON, Fel). 5. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, William Shrimpton, railway telegraphist at G'reatford, Thomas Nolan and .John Walker, mail earners, of Bulls, were charged with conspiring to defraud certain bookmakers n connection with races neld at Bulls on Jan. 1. The case for the prosecution showed Ohujt certain telegrams were sent by Nolan, sig'nodi'by Nolan and Walker and .Jeckelton, from Bulls to Shrimpton at Greati soi'd, for trainsmijSHiioTi to va-rifVusJ | bookmakers in different parts of the colony after the races, on which 1 bets wejv t'o had been run. .Shrimpton, by ante-timing them, made it appear that they had been handed in some hours Ixrtorehatid. Afteir the 'h<*afi(ng bad, pnoccodod for it while, plqas of guilty wety entered] on behalf of Nolan and Shrimpton, and they were remanded for sentence to the Supreme Court. So far .as Walker was concerned it was su)>mitted tUat no case had Whmi made out against him, evidence being tendered t'htat N-olian ihkvd not to.W liim of what be haid done till adterwards. The races to which the tdegrams refened those won by liallnrat and Bless Bok. Nolan was a steward of t I .M Rangitikei Kuemg Club. WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. The charge against Walker was dismissed, and Nolan and Shrimpton were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.