DARGAVILLE RACES.
(From our own Correspondent.)

i { HELENSVILLE. I Monday. ! The races at Dargaville are going to be a | great success, to judge from the number |of visitors and _ horses daily arriving. , I hear that over 500 strangers have I already put in an appearance, and the . resources of the village and settlement ! are even now tried to the uttermost. i About a hundred people are waiting itogoup by the steamer. What we shall all do for beds, I know not. The sport is bound to be good, for any num ber of horses are ready to be entered for the different events. Owen C. McGee is to the fore with Elsa, Perfume and Temperance. They arrived some days ago. Mr Buckland has Magician and Pakuranga, Mr J. A. Lamb has Jassa miue, the three - year - old filly by Sledmere —Mignonette ; while Mr Wyn yard has Lady Godiva. The local horces will be very numerous. With fine weather the sport will be immense. . __ _. i

THE MAYORAL ELECTION. —MR FRED. LARKINS' NOMINATION ANNULLED.
