Third Day (Monday.)

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 318, 3 January 1874, Page 3

Third Day (Monday.)

This day a considerable number of people assembled at the racecourse, to witness the Hospital Race and one or two others which had been got up to carry on the Christmas sport a day or two- longer. The following are the races which were ran :—: — Hack Race : £5. Distance, f mile heats. Mr. Dawkin's Charley (Miller) 1 „ Batt n*s Bobby Burns. (Swan) 2 2 „ Russell's Caller-ou (Nunn) 3 3 „ Davis' Nellie (Partridge) 0 0 Slow Handicap •. £10. Distance, one mile. Mr. Dagg's Fenian, 9st (Robertson) 1 „ Russell's Lady Pembroke, 7st (Moore) 2 „ O'Brien's Malabar, Bst 101 b (Malone) 3 Ho3pitai Race £17 16s ; tho winning jockey presentod with a riding whip. Mr. Dawkins' Charley (Moore) 1 „ Russell's Lady Pembroke 2 „ Dagg's Boomerang 3

f It is staged in one of the medical papers %ia : Sir Henry Thompson has lately returned two fees of one thousand guineas each. Emigration ip causing a vast increase of in Lancashire. Many men cmiVate, leaving their w ire* and fu.:.ii!ic3 churgciiUe to the parishes. stqS47 4s ifcl was the amount whi«;h was remitted to Air.. Lowe the Chancellor of , the Taperial Exchequer during the twelve months ending March Ist last by those who felt they had been cheating the country, md resolved to atone for it anonymously. " un a recenb pastoral, one of the Irish Roman (Mholic bishops has denounced the modern fos^ion of danceing, and has expressed a strcus* opinion that waltzes and galops are direoly productive of immorality.