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SPORTING.

Wellington Racing Club Sprinp Meeting Weights. CiuiiSTcmmcii, November 8. The following handicaps have been declared by Mr Evett forjtho Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting : Handicap Hurdles, one mile and a half.-Owhaoko list lllb, Squib list ! 71b, Tornado lOst 101b,Oceola lOst 51b Play boy lOst, Clarice 9s 101b, Haven 9at 81b, Ariel 9st Glb.Kincrnig 9st 01b Akatea 9st 21b, The Dove 9st,All Day 9st, Hutt Pake Handicap, one mile and a quarter. Whisper 9st 51b, Laurel Bst 101b, Forester Bst 91b,Lady Florin Bst 51b, Erin-go-Bragh Bst 41b, Fox-

ton Bst 21b, Littln Scrub 7st 131b, Lenore 7st 121b, Sincerity Tstlllb, Man Friday 7st 101b, Wanganui 7st 71b, Doncaster and Omaha 7st 61b, Hukatere 7st 41b, Montrose U 21b, Clyde Tat, Akatea Gst 101b, Minnie Palmer 6st 91b, Peter Gst 71b, Weka Gst 31b, Due D'Amour Gst. Grand Stand Handicap, one mile— Laurel 9st, Erin-go-Bragh Bst 121b, Lenore, Bst, Boulanger Bst 51b, Man Friday and Little Scrub Bst 41b, Hukatere 7st lllb, Clydo 7st iOlb, Montrose 7at 81b, Akatea, 7st 41b, Verbose Gst 121b, Weka and Due d'Amour Gst 51b. Flying handicap, six furlongs.—

Forester 9st 71bs, Whisper 9st Gib, Tornado Bst 31b, Melville and Boulanger Bst 2lb, Man Friday Bst, Wanganui 7st 101b, Omaha 7et 71b, Cruiser and Verbose Gst 101b Weka Gst 71b.

Australia—Present and Future. A Sydney correspondent writes as follows; The great American lecturer Major Dane, treated the people of Sydney on October 80, to a few genuine ideas which they would do woll to take advantage of, After

touching on the length of his visit, the people and towns which he had seen, and the invariable kindness with which he had been received, he described the formation of the country which seemed to him to have been joined in a peculiar way by some great glacial action winch bad scooped out the centre of the continent, The climate ho described as remarkable with a perpetual summer lingering about, with but a short spell of cold weather thrown in, with here and there a dash of autumn. He gave it as his opinion that Australia owed to her great squatters a debt slio could never pay. Their cattle and herds travelling over tbo doserts had fructified and onriched them, and as time went on people would find that there would bo more vegetation and less desert, till at last the latter would entirely disappear. The means by which Australia was to attain future greatness was not by her mines, manufactures or pastoral pursuits, but on her agriculture would depend her entire success. With regard to her climate he thought it one especially favorable for the residence of man. There was nothing that man could desire or demand that Australia could not produce, but some time would elapse before the inhabitant would appreciate this fact. Still there were many drawbacks to contend against, the rainfall was uncertain and fitful, and the rivers had developed a tendency to run underground—in some cases, he thought, to get cool (kughter). But a well-governed system of artesian boring would return the water ten-fold to the thirsty land. He admired the railway and road systems, but thought that they would be more successfully managed if taken out of the hands of the Government and placed in the hands of public companies, The size and number of the buildings in the larger towns had surprised him, and the prosperity of the country in so short a time had caused him considerable surprise, But Australia was not ijreat yet, To hear Australians talk, a person would conclude that the country had finished her mission, and that there was nothing left to be desired, Yet it was net nice in such a balmy clime to have to eat potatoes procured from New Zealand, and milk from the Swiss Alps. They needed a class of hardworking, respectable young men, who would select suitable wives, go into the country, and real families who would cultivate the ground. There was a marked disinclination evinced among Colonial youth to leave, the towns. About the highest aspiration ■ of the Australian boy was to get a position undei Government. One man had said tht Government had educated his boj till he was good for nothing, and now they must find him employment in the post office. Tbo Australian boy needed to be shaken up. Too much time was given to horse racing, cricket and football, They must pardon him for the remark, hut it seemed to him thai the Australian boy did not think] that fact was written on his countenance. To remedy matters the reins must be taken out of the hands o; the Government and placed in the hands of the people, Ho had nt faith in paternal governments; Aus. tralia must have federation ant immigration. It should be cut up into five sections, governed byoix great hand, Look at Amorica Every boy there had, with the grea: examples which had been set them a hope that be might he one da; called to take a high position. Thi" stimulated thought and energy, an< courage in youth. The presidentia chair _ was the goal on which cverj American boy fixed his eye. H saw, an Australia of to-da; assisted from outside (by borrowei money), and living on a fictitiou ground work; he saw a great Australia of the future springing from th vitals of the country itself, Whei federation took the place of th j present policy, the |u,rkj(]g dsnge

which now threatened Australia would pass away. The struggle for amassing large fortunes must pass by, and tho people must settle down to more natural, genuine, honest thrift before this country would bo' really in a safe and prosperous condition. There must be less speculation and more genuine work. If a new country was built on rust of wealth it would only disintegrate and / go down. But having had every *A opportunity of travelling ovor and minutely examining the country at all seasons, and from ovary standpoint, he bad come to tho conclusion that one day Australia would become a great nation, not with armies and navies, but with the real honest energy and toil which alone can make a nation great and truly prosperous, $

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3357, 9 November 1889, Page 2

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SPORTING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3357, 9 November 1889, Page 2

SPORTING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3357, 9 November 1889, Page 2

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