The following sums we're paid over at the late settling by the Auckland Jockey Club :— Mr James Watt, £323 ss ; Mr W. Walters, £299- 5s ; Mr H. Redwood, £294 10s ; Mr Mann, £57 ; MrO. M'Gee, £47 10s ; Mr M'Geehan, £44 10a ; Mr Campbell, £23 15s ; Mr Kavanagh, £15 5s ;Mr Fitzgerald, £9 10s ;Mr Standish, £4 ss. Total, £3118 15s. Some Calif ornian quail in the possession j of a gentleman in town having produced some eggs upon which they did not seem disposed to bestow the parental care necessary to incubation, the eggs were placed under a comcaon hen at Howe's farm. Some of the eggs failed, but the remainder produced healthy young ones. Californian quail will probably exist in numbers in the Evans Bay district before long. During the next week a locomotive will be running on the Hutt line of railway, and will afford many youthful Wellington residents a first view of the steam horse at work. Many Maoris will no doubt be utterly astonished, and it is quite pos sible that a train in motion may be a new sight to some of the older colonists. Messrs Brogden and Sons have consider ately drawn attention to the intended working of the locomotive on the Hutt line, so that drivers may be on their guard should th.-y have horses disposed to shy. It must be expected that many horses will prove troublesome at first, but they soon get used to the noise and cease to be restive. It must not be inferred that the line is to be opened ; the engine will only be engaged in hauling trucks. Beda, the well-known gymnast, who lost one leg by an accident in a circus at Christchurch, is not a man easily daunted. Finding walking with a crutch slow work, , he has taken to a velocipede, and on smooth roads makes good progress, but the streets of Wellington when recently watered do not afford a suitable surface for velocipede riding under difficulties. Like a single engine without a fly wheel, the crank, represented by Beda's one leg, sometimes gets on the centre when on a piece of heavy ground, and the result is a stoppage, and anew start is necessitated. 