Special to tub New Zealand Ttwce. Featueuston, November 2. Tho weather for the past 24 hours has • .been s °ow and hail falling con | staßtly.'- 4 Xho'JilUs uro snow-covored lower dgwh thaii they jiave Jbeen for so mo time. At* a meeting of ‘representatives and dele gates of various racjAg su&s this afternoon, jt was decided that tho‘ delegates ’to .the JJaojug Conference should ‘ support the country slabs ipT gating $ fairer repre sentation on the Metropolitan Club; say, country clubs four to metropolitan repre sentatives three ; also to get the Buies of Eotffng altered, so that clubs should, if they desire it,pay out on the placed horses; also to oppose life members in the event of a New Zealand Jockey Club being ap pointed. Masteetok, November 2. A young man named Harry Carr sus tained a fracture of tho leg whilst wrest *mg in th° sfcseafc on Saturday night. gnow felf jiefe tgrfry; vhich is a most unusual thing for this sermon &£ tl*n yt&f- Press Association, Dunedin, November 2. The Anglican Diocesan Synod was opened to-day, Dr NevjHo, in his presidential address, said he thought It matter for regret that the Prohibition outcry being raised was out of all proportion to the necessities of the case. The evil of drunkenness was very great, and he favoured a reformatory for those whoi lb?t't.hoir ?olf-cbntrol. :• ■ *' '■jVrdOc, 4 '’Homan (Jathplf-C, leaves 1 tomorrow'for' ‘AucirtahtT tq^take in the the Bishop of-Auck land, The Bev L. M. Tsltt opened i*ia mission here to-night. The meeting was preceded by a procession, in which 500 men, women and children took part, trudging through the sloppy The directors of tho KatiqnaJ Company recommend the payment of a dividend of P e F share for the half-year, making ft Mzi gtl? §4 per for the year. f Archdeacons Edwards and Fenton have resigned their positions.
