SPORTING.
Wellington Racing Qlub- \ An Important Ming. At» meeting of (no stewards of the Wellington Baoing Club hold yesterday afiotnoon, the following was the principal huainosß dealt with. The committee pointed out thftt it would probably be necessary that Iho club should only charge investors on the totalizator 10 per cent and pay the State Tax out of tint, Only the spring and Bummer programmes will bo issued at prcse.it, The dates of the Spring Meeting were fixed for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18th and 19th, and those of the Summer Meeting for Monday and Tuesday, January 28id and 24th 1893. It was resolved to intimate to tho Heretaunga Mounted Rifles and the United Hunt Club that obey would not bo allowed to bold raco meetings in future. The stakes to bo given at the Spring Sleeting amount to £IOOO, being £lO5 more than last year, tho additional amount being distributed over the minor evonts, the principal raco of the meeting being left at its forroor value, viz., 175 bovs. Both the selling races, however, have been struck out, and in tln-ir places are substituted a four-furlong handicap on the first day and a Consolation Handicap of a milo on th« second day. In tho Summer Meeting small increases have been made in the hurdle races and some of the minor ovents, The Wellington Cop remaios at 400 sots, with a pieoe of plate ol tho value of £IOO added. The programme is practically the same as last year, with an increase ol added money of £BS.
Thenutumn and winter programmes will be issued later on.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4223, 20 September 1892, Page 3
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266SPORTING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4223, 20 September 1892, Page 3
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