CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 581, 10 February 1876, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE.

Tat comphint marie by jour Ocenionni Corre*oondenfc in last is'ue seem* to be a very sel-fi-h one, one in which h» will not be joined by many. Surely the rpco committee are nut expected to pnt the course in order /or the conTeni»nce of two or three 1-cal men who stnetly speaking have no right to be practising on the ground at all Be«idea this, .t i» on priTHt*property, and ii I belirve only lo«t for the occi*hnj»nd not for a perpetual racing ground I do t*ot thin* that a fortnight is too short a time to ill in or drain or two Tbe re'oran hurllo racer "Middy Ashore" ?ia» f heir, changed handi - and. will I beliere leiretbe district. Poor Old Mid Jy, hi« racing career must be drawing to a close. One old familiar tqnus will be missing from our next race meeting. The latest sportinp iteir. current i* tint » a mile foot race will come off on Saturday week . for £10 a aid". The o^mpetit^ri are McNeish (of pole vaulting nntiruty) and MeClenna". The betting is slightly in faror of McNe »h, but as M' Clenann is as yet untried no accurate estimate can be formed. It is, however, admitted by both sides that the first man cannot, win by many ymls The weather has for the l»sb few days bepn oppressirely hot, but to-day it is cloudy again, < -whet'ier this state of things it a precursor to more rain or more heat remains to be teen. i»f \ the two evils we would chooso the le-ut, namely, h«at. — Own CoRBE^PoNDfNT.