The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1579.
TARANAKI ANNIVERSARY RACES.
The Committee of tho Tarnnaki Jockey Club met on SaturJny evening last, when, although it was considered th-it the place was scarcely far enough advanced at present to ha\ r e two meetiugs in a year, it was thought advisable to cater for a day's amusement for the public^ on the Anniversary Day (31st March), as formerly, and they trusted to the liberality of the public to nssist the Committee in carrying it through success ially. Tho following programme \tas then arranged : — soys. Maiden Piato 30 Autumn Handicap 100 Steeplechase 60 . Hack Hurdles 10 In v Keeper's Purse 40 Hack Race 10 Flying Handicap 10 Forced Haadicau 25

We understand that Mr. Barlcyinan has re signed the office of Collector of Customs and Receiver of Land llcvenuc for the purpose of joining Mr. J. B. Roy iv the practise of the profession of the law, at Hawera. We were stiown an iugenious fly-catcher at the shop of Mr. Townseml this morniug. Its modus operandi is the revolving of a small cy linder, which, being covered with treacle or other saccharine substance, carries the flies into a small box, out of which they cannot cs cipe. A machine of this kind would entice every fly in a dairy to sacrifice itself. X bush fire at the German Settlement com mitted serious ravages ycstcrd.iy. We learn that Mr. Henderson will lose £200 by the de struction of onthous3S ; Mr. Salisbury had fif_ teen sacks of grass seed and a number of sheaves destroyed ; and Mr. Riley will also suffer con siderably by the destruction, of his fences.
