SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3135, 21 February 1889, Page 2

SPORTING.

Dunedin Races.

Dunedik, February 20. Selling Race of GO sovs.—Windsor,, 1; Idalia, 2; Jack, 3.'

Publican's Eace, 200 sovs,—Kuby, 1; Ravenswing, 2; Adulation, 3, ■. Maiden Plate, 80 sovs.—lxion, 1; Rainbow, 2 ; Yarra, 8, . •.-,i Selling; Eace, two-year-olds, 100 sovs,-Loo, 1; Miss Ann, 2; Peas Blossom, 3. ..." Steward's Purse, 100 sovs,—Moss Rose, 1; Mon Loup, 2; Adulation, 3.'-'- . Thursday.,, Tallyho Handicap: Irish King 1, Ishae 2, Osbeok 8. Pood for the Fishes- -

HoKiTiKi, February 20. I The remains of one of the bodies of the boys drowned in the surf at Boss a fortnight ago was found today, a few; miles. north of : Hokitika, havjnjj drifted thirty miles. The body apparently was broken in tho small, of the'back, and the lower portion was found. • There was little flesh remaining, only one foot and a portion of the leg, The remainder had been eaten clean by the fishes. It was impossible to identify..-the body. .

■ Tlie Premier. Napier, February 20. -. The Premier addressed a crowded meeting in "the Theatre Royalthis evening. To a large extent his speeoh was a repetition of those at Hawora and Auckland. Among new things wits an announcement that the Government would probably have to establish pauper farms on the German system, where able-bodied paupers should be compelled to work as a condition of relief. Old people unable to.work would be maintained by the Government, and casual cases by local bodies.' He strongly denounced the sweating system, but ' expressed a doubt as to whether it could be dealt with by legislative enactments. A healthy public feeling, which would make people refuse to buy oheap goods made by sweating labour, was the real romedy. Ho spoke at great length on the property-tax as opposed to a land and incomo tax, . At the close of the meeting a vote of thanks was carried by acclamation as well aB a motion in favor of a land and income tax, though not above onethird present voted either way on the latter motion. Immediately after the meeting the Premier left for Gisborne by the s.s. Kalm, which had been specially chartered.

TE KOOTI. Gismhne, Thursday. The Chairman of the .Vigilance Committee is reported in the local paper to have said *' Government had no cause to consider the matter, and if they had not made up their minds in 21 hours, the Committee should tako decisive steps. They should act as if thorp wore no Government, or the whole district would be brought into disrepute. The defence of their women and children would be left entirely in their own hands, and they should let Te Kooti understand that neither now nor at any future time should he be allowed to enter the district-.. -If that was not done, alarm would continue so long as the man lived."