PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3105, 30 January 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

((From Our Resident Reporter). Friday. The recent meeting of the Pahiatua "Racing Club was a very successful one. The Club will make about £SOO out of the meeting. The warm rain which is falling at the time of writing will have a beneficial effect on the grass. The Borough employees have been engaged cleaning up the footpaths In the back streets and giving them a coat of tar and sand. This

is a much neec'ed improvement. Thosa desi-ous of obtaining frviit for jam-making purposes would do well to attend the mart sale this (Saturday) afternoon. Excellent crops of rape are to be seen all over this district. Mr W. Entwistle, ■ who recently started a cabinet-making business is this town, has a splendid display -of hand-made furniture, all made since his arrival here. Mr Entwistle's work reflects great credit on him. Although the town was crowded both race nights, no 1 , a single person was arrested for drunkenness. The pupils and intending pupils of Mr C. Bluett are r.-min i~ i .at he will resume music-teaching on Monday, February Ist.

WOODVILLE NOTES. The third annual swimming sports, under the auspices of the Woodville Swimming Club, will be held at the baths<on Wednesday, February 10th. A good programme has been arranged, and over £4O will be given in prize-money, the principal event being the Hawke's Bay Championship of 200 yards, first prize £3 3s, second 21s, and third 10s fid; and £2 2s has been alloted as first prize in the President' Handicap.

CANTERBURY WEIGHTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. ! WELLINGTON, January 28. Mr J. E. Henrys has declared the following weights for the Canterbury, Jockey Club's Midsummer Meeting : Hornby Welter.-- Czar Kolohol 10.5, Stronghold 10.3, Lady Disdain and Merrie Zealand ' 0.2, All Guns 10.0, Hose Noble 9.10, Harvest and De Witte 9.11, Hilarity 9.10. Alexis 9.6, Golden Cairn 9.4, Sister Anne 9.3, Contender 9.2, Prism 9.0, The Libyan 5.13, Zetland 8.5, Su-marotf, Athena and Kilts 8.4, Pallada 8.2, Luperin 8.0. Lyttelton Plate.-- Gyrabiforra 8.13, Boutade 8.8, Plougshare, Ingoda and Zemba 7.7. Craven Plate.—Goldbeater 9.8, Petrovna 9.1, Prim arid Czar Kolohol 8.9, Field Gun 8.8, Lady Disdain 8.6, Rose Noble 8.2, Sunglow, Valdimar and De Witte 7.13, White Cockade 7.9, Passion and Contender 7.5, Athena 6.7. Halswell Plate.—Or-rino 9.9, Tremulous 9.2, Northern Star 9.o,>Sauita 8.13, Giovanni 8.12, 8.9, Bountiful 8.2, Ennius and Kiogsway 7.7.

DUNEDIN NOMINATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 28. The following nominations have been received for the principal events at the Dunediu Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting:— uunerin Cud, ,1* mil-.—Trugan-inl, White Cockade, Erskine, Elle'"ton, Iranui, Field Gun, Outlander, Gold Beater, Glenculloch, Apa, Prim, Valdimar, Sant Rosaleer, Monkey Puzzle. Waitapu, Jack Ashore, Apollodoris, Grand Slam, Probable, Ard Reigh, Adjudge, Hiro, Tikitere, Rose Noble, Speculate, Gold Dredge. Dunedin Jockey Club Handicap, 1 mile and a-quarter.—Nobel, Truganini, White Cockade, Ellerton, Iranui, Field Gun, Outlander, Gold Beater, Glenculloch, Hilarity, Apa, Harvest, Prim, Valdimar, Sant Rosaleer, Warsaw, Monkey Puzzle, Waitapu, Jack Ashore, Apollodoris, Grand Slam, Probable, Ard Reigh, Adjudge, Hiro, Tikitere, Rose Noble, Spsculate, Gold Dredge. WOODVILLE NOMINATIONS.