Rather Curious reading.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3753, 6 March 1891, Page 2

Rather Curious reading.

[ A correspondent of a Mlebourne : paper writes, I have received a ■ number of the Gippsland Standard, , a.idone or two of the advertisements are rather curious reading. The annual races at Lillie's Leaf are advertised, and the programme sets forth the fact that each raoe is - sovs, and that the entrance foo is 5 per cent. How an owner of a horse, or indeed a man who does not know a horse trom a can find out what is 5 per cent"*—— sovs is a mystery. Of course ii might bo expressed algebraically, as x divided by 20, but the Gippsland people do not care to pay a cheque for x, for, as 1 understand them, their banking accounts are not like mine—an unknown quantity. One cannot but admire the feeling of the Lillie's Leaf B.C. stewards in desiring that there should be as much variety in the winning as possible; just as it is pleasant to find a schoolmaster trying to give every scholar a prize opart altogether from merit. The tisement states that no horse sliatHm allowed to win more than one race 1 With a good list of events every horse ought to be able to win one race, as each of the better horses becomes disqualified iu consequence of winning a previous ovent. As a I natural result each owner would go away from the meetii# quite satisfied with having had gooa sport for having paid his five per cent of nn unknown quantity of sovs, Another peculiar advertisement, to a town bird, isfhat of Mr Swords, wlio announces that he has " nine acres for eaic, CIj:: to to"' l ® Albert, at present enc»ou°- 111 «*I Wood's paddock." Tho vendor does not say whether the purchaser can " unencjoso" it. Perhaps, as tho price is Reason nbloj the luclcpr buyer ia

expected to take a van up 'with him and cart the nine acres out of Mr Wood's paddock. This seems rather a wild suggestion, but it may be what the advertiser intends, for the world is made of all Swords and condition of men. Charge of PersonationWellington, Friday. Id the Saprema Court James Morgan charged wiih personation at the general election, was found guilty, but in consideration of his having been three months in gaol awaiting his trial, the Chief Justice sentenced him to only balf-an-hour's imprisonment.