HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 12 February 1870, Page 6

HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

St. lb. Mr. Bernard's Don Pedro, aged 10 0 Devine's c g Sir Charles, 5 yrs ...10 0 „ Hewitt's br g Fire-eater, aged ... 9 7 ' Cowan's c g Poison, aged ... 9 7 Mellor's b g Harkaway, 5 yrs ... 9 0 „ Delamaine's Patch, aged ... 9 0 Referring to the strike at Naseby, the local journal writes as follows :— "The strike of tho miners still continues to hold as firmly and determinedly as ever, nor does there at present appear any prospect of a speedy and satisfactory arrangement between the miners and the water companies. The only alteration in the aspect which the question has assumed since our last issue consists in the getting up of a monster petition to his Honor the Superintendent, praying him to exercise the power vested in him by sec. 3 of reg. xxi. of the late Goldfields Rules and Regulations relative to the abandonment of claims. To this petition no less than 300 signatures were, we have been given to understand, in an incredibly short space of time, appended. The names comprised not only the entire mining population, but the whole of the business men of the town, with, we believe, but three exceptions. A deputation waited upon Mr. Warden Robinson on Friday last to present the petition for transmission to his Honour the Superintendent. By the same day's mail the petition was despatched to head quarters. So matters at present stand. What action his Honour may be advised by his Executive Council to take in a case so completely exceptional as the present h a matter too difficult to Ka?«rd even a conjecture."