LOWER VALLEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3385, 13 December 1889, Page 2

LOWER VALLEY.

(From Our Own Correspondent). I hear tbat there is a movo on foot by somo of the members of the Wai* rarapa Jockey Club and-their friends to again make the Taubcrenikau course the courso for their Club. It is thought hy a good many that it was a mistalie ever shifting it to "jreylowh. ' The old course has cerainly many attractions that the new . me' has Hot, parliotilarly 'now he blunder of having the front of the irand stand in the teeth of south-east feather has been remedied, by. reaoving it nearer the bush. If I may ie pardoned for making a suggestion t is this, that the Wairamra Jockey Jlub made a mistake in inffing their barges, for admissioft tp'tliejcourao o high, I was' present the year Blanche won the southern chief Proluce Stakes Cup. That year there ras estimated to be 1500 people on he ground, Mr, Redwo&d, of raoing, 1 amo, was also present/ and I believe «t i . emarked that he never saw a finer ooking lot of hacks together on any acecourse. The charges, I believe, bat year, wore Is fid for horsemen, nd 2s for one horse vehicles, no uatter how many passengers it conaincd. Pater and mater went to the 'auberenikau course then; not so ouch to see tlic races as an outing or themsoivca mid families, the esult being that at least twice as uany, people attended as do now, or lid before it was removed on the pirn hat it did not prove attractive to tfc >ublio. I cannot congratulate them or their wisdom iu tkoit generation. in that occasion. The Wairarapa fockey Cilub aV6 not aloiie in the ligh entrance fees they demand. I ould mention a numbo'r of Clubs all if which lmve proved disastrous to be success of their meetings. To nake any sports a success, you must lave the numbers; the prices must ie popular, and it must be a popular loliday, er else it dwindles down to he few that are directly interested in t. Witness the Empire city races, tbout as many attend as at a wellnanaged third rate country meeting 1 understand that petitions against naking the Irish dolegates mission to bis Colony appear as if we were all lome ltnlers is being numerously igned iu the Lower Valley, showing hero is at least some loyal subjects; hey say we can't allow any foreign nition to have Ireland. Most of tlis farmers in this district ivo very busy luyniaking. All tlia [rain crops are looking well, and dp n a forward state. The yield'of ;rain hero last year was far above he average'of any previous year, t The large pah near Marliiiborough hat has been in dourse of construeion for a number of years is now learly completed, There is to'bo a ;reot opening when finished, How hoy will get over the objection they lave at present of not allowing amales inside will, I think, tax : their ngenuity, for the sterner sex have mly to toll the gentler'they can't do uch and such a thing, when they irnnediately set tlieir wits to work to el the instructions df their supposed orda and masters at defiance. There re exceptions, of course, to every ule.

The flax industry is still going ahead steadily in this district, the Messrs McKenzie and Tringham'&W mill they have been making large additions, The Messrs Bidwill Bros have also found it necessary to order a twenty borso-powcr portable eugiue from England,' that; agreement, is to bo doliveroiHn Wellington in two months from the date it was ordered. Bather smart work that—about the samo time as it would take thirty-five years ago to send a load of provisions from Wellington to Bo ivlands, Upper Tauoru. The oxen conductor is still well and hearty that for the consideration of £lO per ton offered by the manager of Bowlunds station took him just .three weeks from Bowlamls to Mttstertop and returning, he then being in the employ of the late Mr Hastwell, of Groytown.