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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2260, 4 January 1887, Page 2

A Loss to the Turf. —A young female teacher lately visited the Education Office, Melbourne, imploring a change from the school she was in. She was in the depths of the bush, a day's, journey from the nearest country town, and compelled to board in a rough selector's farm. To illustrate the sort of life she led, ohe stated that going and returning to school biiu had every week to get over eighty fences. " What a splendid training, " said the sympathetic official to whom she was pouring forth her troubles. "My dear young lady, you should have entered yourself for the" steeplechase at Fleming.ton next month." Mr George Ciiaixey, a popular American lecturer, now on i, visit to Australia,; thus refers to the Melbourne Cup Day : —"There is a dark background to the picture of 100.000 ou a racecourse gazing at the rushing horses as one man, many other thousands hanging with breathless suspense ou the telegraphic reports. Two million pounds gambled away ! What does all this tell of secret shame, pain, desolation, madness, and despair ? Enough money wasted to dot the deserts with artesian wells, causing the wilderness to blossom as the rose, [and to quench the blast furnaces fron> which $hc hot winds, aame,"