WAIKATO RACES.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 426, 9 February 1875, Page 2

WAIKATO RACES.

Tlio following are tha weights deuln^'l by the Handieapp'rs

- .nmniu tlMita Will X WHIM. pUOIIKfI THf* lOI* lowing predietidn bv'Sr Gh»or«» Campbell, which the Anok» land Prc«i has | awed with mninouj lilenoe, Jhub wh eh t'»e treatment of this Province bv her Souther Sister* will a«su>v)illy brine in pnw. In th# last papers I read that the ProTince of Canterbury it about, toeitnd twelve thon and pounds in additions to its museum, and to serd the Curator to Europe to coll et specimen*, and thin at i he time when the Province of Auckland it from want ol'o 1 ' fund* rloaing the public fchools. In this, the Waitetuna District, of Raglan, there «r« more than forty children under fifteen years of age, living witin a r>dius of three miles of a central site ffr a schoolhoive— which want, of funds has prevented a schoo'houae b<in"' built upon — and i ow that the E luc-ition Tax has been pa>d the two "Half time" schools hitherto open have been cloaeH. The greater number of these fort? children will in all probability reac'i ma'urifcr, and will with truth ta\ (some of them will bp unabla to write if the school be no' f opemd) — tliat tl they neithei borrow e \ nor benefitteii bv t.lte twenty millinns" and <-ann »t in ju^'ioe he expected to nay their shfire us the borrower* re fused them th* in^ann of learning their a, b, cas their nhare nf the loann. — l^nm *o J. C. JOH^STONE. Te Htroto. Risrlan, F.-b. 4, 1875. Sir Georyc Campbells address to the Social Science Congress: — " The must, important financial question of hl> «n these days is: how lar are nations or (.'overrinient-* justified in throw ing on pooteriry expends incurred bytfiem •elves? Among tl»e bl^j-ijntrs <»f pivil>zition whic'i we have •>minunicuted to ChrUtimis. Turks, Pi^ans »n 1 infidels of •ill sort?, thpie is none whioli in these modern Hnyt they have so much appreciated restate loari«jv»~*P^ rotten tjovernmenu nothing i« mor,- delit;htful. Th^re^w the double advantage that a loan gives them an ample supply of money for ihfir present net-e^gii i^s, and also builds up a strong interest bound to kee ■ them on their legs. In India native states to necure fidelity, keep their soldiers three rears in arrears ol pay, and my if the Kinu of the Cannibal Inlands (mii raise tw.-nty mMUonfjpn | lie Lm lon Stock Etca-iue. he cnres not on what terms, he h-els pretty cure tlmt he cannot oe overthrown so lone as tne fin •neial f)O\»eri« of Lmdnn om k-ep him up. In t-uith thia coutitry is largely '•eiponsible for t|ie exlr.ivi!/ in -Ms of the word, anH the que-iti.in »nse- sv' ether this may n»tbe carried too far, and i hether we khiv" Hot -orrfc da^ awake to grand repu liations \v a generation which mar with some show ol reason my thut they neit 1 cr b'i*rowi»d nor b.'neh'tted by the money.— The Times, Oi-luber 7rl>, 187t"

Mr Walter*, Y»itteiin» Mr B Mid, Don Mr Perkins, Isleman Mr Mwßobrrr*. The BA\o Mr X ikwoocl, Tin Mr Mt-Catthv, Lmtr 10 2 8 0 5 0 7 5 6 12 6 12

Tvy.y Clttb Handicap.

Mr Hobbett, Arrow Mr Buckland, Kate Mr Clarke, Middj Ashore . . . Mr Harris, Count Mr Rutherford, Tommy Dodd 11 10 10 10 10 6 10 5 10 4 9 10

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Tfi^TTJKQ EAOB.

Mr Burkland, Charlie Mr Perkins, Buy Judy Mr Cox, Bob Mr Boott, ilayp* errntrh SiTnlell 350 vurla