TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10282, 10 July 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph — Press Association

A LABOUR CANDIDATE. I PALM"ERSTON~N., Last Night. , At the request of the Manawatu Flax Workers' Union-, Mr J. Robertson, of Palmerston N\, secretary of the Taranaki Dairy Workers' Union, etc., has decided to contest the Otaki electorate, in the Labour interest. TIMARU A. AND P. ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, Last Night. The A. and P. Association's Committee paid £25 towards last year's salary of the Education Board's agricultural instructor, and it has been decided to repeat it for the current year on, the condition that Mr Brown gives three lectures to farmers. Mr John Wit-hell said they had a remarkably good man in MiBrown. One lecture he had given on manure was alone worth £25. The Committee appointed two delegates for the Dune-din Conference to consider the establishment of a Clydesdale stud book for New Zealand. COURSING. WELLINGTON, Last Niglit. The Wellington Metropolitan Coursing Club's meeting was held at Wallaceville on Saturday. Though not largely attended, it tvqs a. successful gathering. Results :—Exhibition Cup: Wellington beat Jakz, Middlemarch beat Lonsdale, Valorous' beat Temuka, Kilfilem beat Despatch, Captain Starlight beat War Rose, The Leader heat Stranger, Headlight a bye. First ties: Wellington beat Middlemarch, Kilfilem beat Valorous, Headlight beat Captain Starlight, The Loader a bye. Second ties: Kilfilem beat Wellington, Headlight beat The Leader. Deciding course: J. Brosnan's Kilfilem, by Tolstoi—Gertie, beat Wiremu Neeri's Headlight, and won the stake. Supplementary Stake: Dividend beat Balderdash, Kinock Girl beat Lonsdale, Middlemarch heat Temuka. First ties: Kinock Girl heat Dividend, Middlemarch a bye. Deciding course: J. Williamson's Kinock Girl, by Raffles—Matins, J. Higgins' Middlemarch, by Greenwood—Sunbonnet, and won " the stake.