Waikato Turf Club Spring Meeting.
The following nominations and entries were received last night : — Hurdles. — Sportsman, Blink Bonnie, Daric, Te Whetumarama, The Lark, Rawenata Spring Handicap.— Stanley, G-ilderoy, Rocket, Saunterer, Maori, King Quail, Kenilworth, Dewdrop, Lara, Vampire, Yatapa. Railway Handicap.— Stanley, Maori, Stratbearn, Rocket, Saunterer, King Quail, Kenilworth, Lara, Vampire, Yatapa. Maiden Pi.ate Entries.— Miss Domett, Blink Bonnie, Strathearn, Othello, Joe Bennett.
The Royal Insurance Company (fire and life) make an announcement in our advertising columns. Mr J. P. Thompson is the Cambridge agent, and Mr Gso. Dickenson has been appointed to act in a similar capacity for the Hamilton District. A Leaenbd Colobed Man. — A prodigy among the clerks in the mansion offiue at Washington is De Winter Dnmas, a coal , black negro, bom in London and educated at Trinity College, Dablin. He speaks French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, knows Laiin and Greek, writes 200 words a minute in shorthand, is a fine penman, says he was once an official reporter in British Honso of Common*, and is 35 years old. His wife is an intelligent and refined white woman. t In the United States a "Jersey fever" is springing 1 up. At a late sale, fortysix animals averaged £107. One bull reached £937, and one cow £416. These are long %njeg fqr fo m y oattle,
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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1461, 12 November 1881, Page 2
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218Waikato Turf Club Spring Meeting. Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1461, 12 November 1881, Page 2
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