AUSTIN V. TIME. PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY ! ! EIGHTEEN MILES UNDER TWO HOURS AT THE TARARU RACECOURSE, ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEXT. Sports committee w. McCioughcn, Esq,, W. Pearce, Esq., 0. L. Manuel, Esq., W. Robinson, Esq., 0. Curtis, Esq., B. Balliu, Esq. The Sports will commence at Two o’clock. GRAND 1-Mile WALKING HANDICAP. First Prize Theatre Royal Cup, presented by Collins, Carrol.and Bent, At 2.30, ONE-MILE FLAT RACE. Open * < all. At 3 o'clock sharp, ALFRED AUSTIN, The renowned Australian Champion, in his Grand Exhibition Match of Running EIGH TEEN MILES UNDER TWO HOURS, pronounced by the Australian press to be the most highly finished piece of running ever seen in the Australian Colonics. The Race will be ruu on a course measuring 17G yards, minus 2.J yards allowed for turnings, giv ing a total of One hundred and eighty times round she Course to complete the distance. The Course will, at a great expense, be en closed for the occasion. Admission to the Ground One Shilling only, HIS EXCELLENCY’S LEVEE. IN accordance with the request of a number of the inhabitants of Grahamstown and Shortlan, : his Excellency the Governor will hold an UNDRESS LEVEE, at the Recep tion Rooms, Pacific Hotel, at 3 o clock p.m., THIS DAY. • Gentlemen attcudiug arc requested to bring two cards. JAMES SKENE, Chairman Reception Committee. NO. 1 ROYAL, 11.R.V. ALL MEMBERS of the above Company desirous of Forming a Guard of Honor to His Excellency the Governor to day, will please fall in at the Volunteer Hall at 2 o’clock. It is especially requested that all members of the Royals that can attend will do so.
