SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3913, 15 September 1891, Page 2

SPORTING.

Wr&rapa Raela? Club.

At a special meeting of the Wairarapa Racing Club, held at Featherston on Saturday, there was a large attendance oi members, and Mr K. GriC? occupied the chair. It was unanimously decideu ih* 1 a two days meeting he held at Tauheremkau at New Year. 1$ was resolved to offer £550 in stakes. It was also resolved that a one day's meeting be held on Easter Monday, Nine new members were elected. The following draft programme was arranged:— First daj—Handicap Hurdles,4Qsdys, If miles ; Hack Hurdles, 2gsbvs, 1£ miles; Flying Handicap, 85sovs, six furlongs; Hack Handicap, 15govs, six furlongs; Wairarapa Cup, lOOsovs, 1£ miles; Handicap Hack Race, 25 sovs, 1£ miles ; Welter, 40sovs, one mile. Second day—Second Handicap Hurdles, 45soys, two miles ; Second

Hack Hurdles, 25sovs, Tauherenikau Stakes, 40sovs, seven turlonge ; Hack Handicap, 20sovs, one mile and a distance ; W. 8.0. Handicap, 65sovs, Forced Handicap, 15 sovs, half uv'le; Open Forced Handicap, 80sovs, one nile and a distance. Lover Valley JockoyOluu, At the annual meeting of the ibove Club held on Saturday night there was a good attendance of members. The chair was oocupied by Mr f . Martin, junr. The balance sheet showed a credit balance of LlB 16s 7d. The officers and three new members were elected. It was resolved to hold the meeting as usual on Boxing Day. A vote of thanks to the retiring officers concluded the meeting. . A Wife's Fatal Rashness. At Northumberland Assizes, at Newcastle, before Mr Justice Grantham, Dorothy Sinclair (44) was iharged with the wilful murder of her | ausband, Thomas Sinclair, at East Doldside Farm, near Morpeth, on March 11th last. The evidence showed the prisoner and her husband to have been farm servants, and on March 11th they went to the hirings at Morpeth, returning about seven o'clock. Shortly after that hour [prisoner ran to ths farm house, and [said she was afraid she had •stabbed her husband. Mrs Alder, who owns the farm, went to the prisoner's cottage, and found Sinclair lying dead in a chair, with a knife wound in his chest. Prisoner told her that on their return from Morpeth she complained of b-sing ill, but her husband only laughed at her. She exclaimed that if he did that again she would stab him. He dared her to do it, and taking a knife from the drawer she stabbed him. She protested that she did not intend to do it, and while imploring them to send for a doctor to keep him alive, she bathed the wound in warm water, and did all she could for him. The Judge said that there was no evidence of malice aforethought, and the case was not one of murder. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.