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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 213, 29 February 1872, Page 4

TAPANUI RACES Will take place on . WEDNESDAY, 13th MAECH. STEWABDS : .Mr. A. Allan Mr. John Patterson „ T. Hewitt „• John Gow ■ Mr. Benjamin Peers, judge : Mr. H. Bastings. STAETEB : Mr. John Symes. TREASTJBEB : Mr. A. Allan. CLEBK OP THE COUBSE : Mr, J. A. Mooney. HANDICABPEES : Messrs. Hewitt, Howat, and Peers, PROGRAMME. MAIDEN PLATE, of 15 soys. Entrance, one guinea ; weight for age ; distance, one and a half mile. For horses that have never won an advertised prize. TAPANUI HANDICAP, of 25 soys. Distance, one mile and three-quarters. Nominations, with one guinea, to be received up till nine o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 12th March. Accep* tance, with one guinea, to be received by the Secretary before ten o'clock same night. HURDLE RACE, of 15 soys. ; over 8 flights of hurdles three and a half feet high ; weight for age ; distance, two miles. Entrance, one guinea. - HANDICAP TROTTING RACE, of 10 soys. Entrance, one guinea ; distance, three miles. No weight under list. HACK RACE, of 10 soys. ; one mile heats. Confined to horses within a radius of ten miles of Tapanui. . Entrance, one sovereign. No weight under lOst.

R UL E S, 1. The decision of the Stewards in all cases to be final.. No entries received except on this condition. 2. No person to,enter a horse unless a - - ;.,„„ + rt +llftl Ift race f un< i. 3. General entries to be made to the Secretary or Stewards oil Tuesday, 12th March, at Commercial Hotel, at or before eight o'clock. 4. Rules of tfie Tuapeka Jockey Club strictly adhered to. 5. Three horses to start, or no race. 6. Five per cent will be deducted from the gross amount of prizes, for expenses. 7. Correct jockey costume insisted upon, and a fine of one guinea will be enforced for coming to the scales or riding in wrong colours. 8. Parties entering a protest will require to deposit one guinea. If protest should be sustained, the guinea to be returned. ANDREW ALLAN, Secretary. • BAND OF HOPE PICNIC. THE children connected .with the Lawrence Baud of Hope will meet at the Grammar School on Saturday, March 9th, to form, a procession t© the Recreation Ground, at 10.30 a.m. On Tuesday, the 12th, a public meeting will be held fu the Athenaeum, when several gentlemen will be present to address the meeting. Chair to be taken at 7.30 p.m. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. IN Conformity to the 29th Section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866*," and to the Regulations made under that Act and the Golds Fields Acts Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869, for the granting of leases for gold mining purposes within the Province of Otago, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease for gold mining purposes of Crown Lands to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against granting such lease. Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing and lodged with the Warden at Lawrence, on or before the 6th day, of. March, 1872. Copy of the application made, and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office, Lawrence* Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 20th day of February, one thousand eight hundred ' and seveuty-two. J. MACANDREW. Superintendent. SCHEDULE. - -Edward ' Walsh, for Tuapeka. Bush Gold, Mining Company, . for. 10 acres of land, more or less, as may be found on survey to be Contained within .the pegs and trenches of the application, situated immediately below Tuapeka Jtash, on Tnapek_a. River, gear ftp head,