SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4184, 5 August 1892, Page 3

SPORTING.

[By Telegraph.—Press Association.] Melbourne, August I Tho Legislative Assembly, by 25 to 18, has agreed to tho peoond reading of the BilHegalising the totalisator in Victoria, Ohristohuroh, August 4. A special meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Association was held ' to-night to discuss tho notices of ,;,, motion to alter the rules. Mr F. m Marr raised a technical objeotion to ' / the new southern delegates taking part in the proceedings, The Chairman, Mr H. Mcllwraith, ruled, in accordance with legal opinion, that delegates could only be appointed by jue. Ixeou'tiye Committee. If, however, it was the unanimous wish that tie delegates'should sit, they might be accepted, 'Mr 0. Hood Williams read a legal opinion to the effect that fresh delegates could he apprpjec} of at especial meetingol the association. TheWw southern ili'gn withdrew, and the proceedings were stopped without any business being ' done, Auckland, August 4, The proposed trip of J. Eae to Sydney with Morion, Quadrant, and Siraugor has been abandoned for tbo present, The case of Roboit Blaikie v. L»ng and others(Auckland Trotting Club) has been adjourned to the next Banco tittifig.' '* ' "'■ ,: ' ■' •'•'