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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 301, 21 December 1907, Page 5

JJAWERA CALEDONIAN SOCIE3 SPORTS. NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1908. NOMINATIONS CLOSE 21st DEC. ATTRACTIVE PRIZE-LIST. Trains to suit North and South. I?4| rB/Wj/ . *-*-<- "'I H (?s*s!, W. A. QUIN, Secretary. NEW PLYMOUTH CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETIC MEETING To be held in the RECREATION SPORTS CROUND, New Plymouth. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908 Under Iho rules of the N.Z. Athlet mon nud N.Z. League of Wheelmen.

PROGRAMME: Running Provincial Maiden Race/150 yards, Ist 30s, second ltfej nomination 2s, Half-Mile Handicap, Ist 100s, 2nd 30s: nomination 3s, acceptance 2. One-Mile Handicap, Ist 100s, 2nd 30s; nomination 3s, acceptance 2s. GRAND CALEDONIAN HANDICAP, of £SO cash (three distances). —120 yards, Ist lOCte, 2nd 40s, 3rd 20s: 220 yards, Ist 100s, 2nd 40s, 3rd 20s; 440 yds, 100s, 2nd 40s, 3rd 206; with added prize of Ist 3405, 2nd 120s, 3i'd 00s; nomination 10s, acceptance OS. Forced Handicap, 220 yards, Ist 40s, 2nd 10s; winners 2s, losers Is. Championship Events: CHAMPIONSHIP Oj? NEW ZEALAND, 100 yards, Ist gold medal and 40s, 2nd 20s; nomination 2s. CHAMPIONSHIP Oi' NEW ZEALAND, 440 yards, Ist gold medal and tiOs, 2nd 20s; nomination 3s; CHAMP lON SHIP OF NEW ZEALAND, 880 yards, Ist gold luedal and tiOs, 2nd 20s; nomination 3s. •Cycling. Novice Handicap, one mile, Ist 30s, 2nd 10s; nomination 2s. One Mile, open, Ist 80s, 2nd 20s, 3rd 10s; nomination 2s, acceptance 2s. One Mile and a-half, open, of £9 14g, Ist 80s and Messrs K Reynolds and Co.'s £4 4s trophy), 2nd 20s, 3rd nomination 3s, acceptance 2s. DOMINION WHEEL RACE, 2 miles, of . £2O OS cash, Ist 280s, 2nd 80s, 3rd 355, 4th 10s; nomination 10s, acceptance 4s. Highland Events. Bagpipe j^usic,' marches, Ist 00s, 2nd 20s; nomination 2s. Bagpipe Music, Strathspeys and Reels, Ist (JOs, 2nd 20s; nomination 2s. Highland Fling in costume, open, Ist 40s, 2nd 10s; nomination 2s. Sword Dance in costume, open, Ist 40s, 2nd 10s; nomination 2s.

Highland Fling for boys under 10, Ist 20s or gold medal, 2nd ss; nomination free. Highland Fling for girls under 10, Ist 20a or gold medal, 2nd as; nomination free. Sword Dance for boys under 10, Ist 20s or gold niedal, 2nd ss; nomination free. Sword Dunce for girls under 10, Ist 20s or gold medal, 2nd ss; nomination free. Keel for boys and girls under 10, 10s for best boy dancer, and 10s for best girl dancer; nomination free. NOMINATIONS close on sth February, 1908; Handicaps appear about 17th February. Winners after declaration may be re-handicapped. Lasit two years' performances to accompany each nomination, and to be made on the New Zealand Athletic Union forms. If no performances for the last two years, the last live performances to be given. Competitors for all, except boys' and girls' events, must be registered with some centre or Society affiliated to ilie New Zealand Athletic Union, or reciprocal body in Australia. Every competitor must be registered by New Zealand Athletic Union. No entry will be received from any person disqualified or suspended by the New Zealand Athletic Union, or from any defaulter. Points in the Caledonian Handicap to count 3, 2 and 1. In the event of a tie, run off to be over 220 yards. Handicappers—Mr Ulic Shannon, Wellington, assisted by Mr W. McDonald, Dunedin. JAMES MeLEOD, Secretary. r.O. Box 87, New Plymouth. STRATFORD RACES. JANUARY Ist and 2nd, 1908. rpilE STRATFORD RACING CLUB'S ANNUAL MEETING Will be held on the CLUB'S COURSE AT STRATFORD On WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, lßt and 2nd JANUARY, lOCS. First Race each day at 12 noon. GALLOPING RACES, HURDLE RACES, and TROTTING RACES. Speoiai train arrangements to suit visitors. J. R. MACKAY, . Secretary. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. CIIIUSTMAS TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS. QN 2-ltb December (Christmas Eve) a train will leave New Plymouth at 10.30 p.m. for Waitara and Stratford. On 25th December (Christmas Day) the usual 11.10 a.m. and 1.40 p.m. Hawera to New Plymouth, 12.50 New Plymouth to Ilawera, 7.55 a.m. and 1 p.m. Waitara to Sentry Hill, 8.20 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. Sentry Hill to Waitara, 7.20 a.m. Douglas to Stratford, and 10.15 a.m. Stratford to Douglas trains will not run. Parcels and booked goods will not be carried by mail trains from 16th December to 4th January inclusive. For further particulars and cheap fares see posters. BY ORDER.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES. is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will lie brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885,-' and its amendments, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of Gazette containing this notice. Application 1137. Francis Leonard and John Harris Leonard, applicants. All that 103 acres 3 roods being Section 80!), (irey and Omata Districts. Unoccupied. Diagrams may be inspected at this office. Plan 2403. Dated this lllth day of December, 1907, at the Lauds Registry Ollice, New Plymouth. 15. P.AYLEY, Assistant District Land Registrar, Tarnnnki. FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS!! gEVENTY POUNDS will buy Broomed House and % acre on Main South Road, five minutes P. 0.; to be sacrJMea for £270; owner left district; htfiise lot a t % a week. Address House, News "Mfice. (COMBINED Sheet) and Dafry Farm carrying 800 awes, ®5 mffldßg aa»|•and other Block;. 1000 aorafl freBOBTO about 800 .in grass, lgdfwce b.^s