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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4991, 10 January 1885, Page 4

A friend in Queensland has forwarded " Augur " of the Australasian a copy of the Queensland Racing Calendar for 1880, the compiler of which was imposed upon by the report of a bogus race meeting. It ia described as that of the "Bael Budgeree (no good) Jockey Club Meeting," and the convincing ground the " No-I-nerer Plains." The placed horses iv the Maiden Plate are giyen as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and their owners Messrs Brown, Jones, and Eobinson. For the Publicans' Purse, it is stated " a lot ran ; so many we could not count them; and the Bael Budgeree Handicap is gif en as being won by Power of X, Plus One being second, and Minus Two third. " Won by 20 lengths on the post," is the verdict on the finish. It is difficult to understand how so palpable a fraud could hare paused without notice. A Lerwick correspondent describes the appetraoce olf that town of a huge and mysterious sea niooster, with fins like an ordinary working lug aajl/fixed 30.t ap-rf. Fishermen declared it,to be a species of basking shark, .quite capablu of pj^sjiing an ordinerj fishing bo«,t jn Us enormous