ALEXANDRA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 1294, 18 September 1873, Page 6

ALEXANDRA.

(From a Correspondent.) The Provincial engineer passed through Alexandra during the week on his way down country ; I understand that it is intended to push on the repairs to the Tuapeka— \lexandra road as soon as the weather gets favourable. With the advent of spring the horsey season has commenced as usual. We are to have a spring meeting here on the 19th to be succeeded by one at Olyde on the following week. Cromwell has also published a programme, so we may shortly expect an addition to our population in the shape of a number of old fashioned boys in tight breeches and cutaway coats whose talk is of the horse, horsey. Pleasant fellows they are too, always ready to play a game of pool, or take a hand at unlimited poker, or to suit the finances of their friends they are not above yankee grabbing for a humble shilling. Our local handicappers have a weary careworn expression in their faces, and seem to be lost in intricate analytical calculations as to whether the "B. EL Bobby" should carry nine stone four, or four stone nine, in order to put him on a level with the other horses. Or perhaps they are speculating on the probable entry of the celebrated "6. G. Croaker by Brickbat out of a Bulfrog mare," and making anxious inquiries as to whether there is any precedent for handicapping a horse to carry two sack's of coals in order to give the scrubbers a chance. In any case they are to be pitied, for every owner of horses is sure to deolare his honest conviction that his liovss has been scandalously overweighted. I do not know that much fault can be found with our manner of amusing ourselves, we must have some excitement to vary the monotony of our existence, and although it would doubtless be a more elevating enjoyment to listen to the music ofs Arabella Groddard, or the elocution of Miss Aitken, as there is no chance of such artists visiting our thinly populated district, we must make the best of the amusements that are available.