SPORTING. Wellington Exhibition Meeting.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 8 September 1885, Page 3

SPORTING. Wellington Exhibition Meeting.

|l!\ ihLHiKVnr. — IMU-.1 \SSOI TMIO\.| \VI I I |S(, IoN, S itllld IV Till- Exhibition Meeting, winch is the lirbt held nndei the new regulations of the Island Bay Racing Club, was held to day on the couiae at Island Bay. The day was fine, but rather windy. About "2000 pel sons weic piesent duiini; the afternoon. His Excellency the (ioseinoi, Sir William Jeivois ami puty dio\e to the course, The geivial arrangements of the meeting lefleet little credit on the btewatds, and the duties of stmtei weie canii'd out in a wretched manner, and at tune Mi C. Hill, the staiter, was hooted for the way which ho dispatched his fields. The following were the results of \.uioiia eve. its . — Hl'kdm: Handicm* of 7OIOW '2 mile^. H. Koilwond'*) M.uubdoui I F < ientiy s Kipl>u-> 2 H IMmveri Lnch Loiniincl .} KmIIBMIOV JI ISDICVI'of 100 SOI-. 1 lllllc. H. I?(.cl\i.iod\ Cl.. n '-, 1 V Young-, The Puut '2 W. l(ut.iiia'-> X itii 3 li\rw Ihhnii-, — S'M^\illbjitei^ht Dth'MDiMdend Hi l>. H\M)KVP df 70 so\eieign» riiive-ciuaitui mile. I. MuitifrhVTheHaib 1 H H('d\\..,. f r> Clog, 2 W. ,I..ne.\ <ilaick s 3 Ti: uii-mi \\S Set uin \\.i-, wdii by Donc.i^ler, who paid a di\idu'ul df t'J 7-. Cv\ vi.in Rwe umswoii by Y. (i , on whom a dividend of £1 10* \v,h paid. Co^^ol \rm\ Hwnicvi 1 P.ixlia 1 Life l^iuiy 2 It ita ' .'J

An old fanner who wiote to an cilitoi, asUni" liow to get lid of moles, and le ceived the leply, " Plough them out," answciod hack, "Can't do it! It's on my dai ter's nose ! " A MAssvciiUhETTs farmer diovo his horse — which is in excellent condition — for a load of wood When icady to icturn he showed himself an nggiavting halker; he declined to " pull a pound." Instead of trying to peisnade him with a club the owner tied the lefiactoiy animal to a tree and "let him .stand" At sunset he was again \,unly united to draw. The rest of the story \\ c quote from the Fitchburg Sentinel. " 1 made up my mind lh.it when that hoise went to the b.irn he would take the load of wood The night was not cold. Icoxeied him w.nm. avid he stood until morning Then he refused to Jiaw. At noon I went down and he was ptobably hungry and lone some He drew tli.it load of wood the fust time I asked him I ictuincd and goc anothei load Ik fore I fed him I then leuaidod him with a good dnmci, I h.i\e diawn sevcial loads suite. Once he icfused to dtaw, but as s-oon as he saw meslaitfor the house he staited after me wifli tlio load."— New Yoik Tnbmic.