has been better during the Race Meeting than was either hoped or expected. The two first days were dry if dull, and the course so fur improved under the influence of a searching wind as to become fairly good going. Hence both on Thursday and yesterday, though the weather was rather' bleak and chill, itwas possible, with good wraps, to enjoy thoraces. This morning it is rainingas of yore, and the prospect is very unchee: for even though it should clear up by noon the track will be mass of mud, bad alike for man and beast. I need not expatiate on the events; the wire has anticipated me by giving the results; the papers will supply the details.
Other sports have more or less been suspended for the races and the rain, The final tie in the football competition has been postponed for the latter reason. The annual athletic sports of the Victoria Recreation Club have been fixed for the 21st of March, by which time it may fairly be hoped the rainy spell will have come ton temporary lull. " Meantime F may note that it has Insted, with one or two short breaks, for nearly a month. During the present month a registrable quantity of rain' has fallen on eighteen out of twenty-two days and totals about 5.80 inches. This is the Diggest rainfall that I' think the oldest inhabitant can remember in February.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.