South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Monday 30 December 1861, page 3


THE THEBARTON RACE MEETING.-The Committee of the newly organised Jockey Club are vigorously preparing the Thebarton course for the ensuing meeting. The Grand Stand has been lengthened by 20 feet, and a calico awning provided. One portion of the building will be reserved for ladies, and a retiring room has been set apart for their accommodation. The space in front of the stand has been thickly covered with tan, and this will be well watered to prevent the possibility of annoyance to visitors by dust. A strong timber fence has been erected from the entrance to the cost: se in the Reedbeds-road to the Grand Stand, by means of which individuals of the ,: cockney equestrian" genus will be prevented from riding over the course as heretofore to the detriment of the running horses, and the inconvenience of the general public. This is even an improvement upon the arrangement of the Melbourne course, where only the acid is running is guarded from the nuisance of innumerable inconsiderate horsemen

galloping wildly in all directions. Improvements have been made in the saddling paddock which has been enclosed with a substantial paled fence, and supplemented by a number of loose boxes for the accommodation of the competing horses. The department from whence the necessary creature comforts will be dispensed has also received its share of enlargement and improvement, and the fact that the catering has been again judiciously entrusted to Host Aldridge, of the Shades, is a sufficient guarantee that every possible exertion will be made to supply the wants and gratify the taste of every hungering and thirsting visitor.

CLASSIFICATION. "Dur the last week the first squad of the Adelaide Companies fired for marks-men for the current year. The section consisted of six men, and all passed the scores being 15,15, 13, 12, 10 and 9 points and the ranges 650, 700, 800, and 900) yards; giving an average of 12, points per man-an average which, though not the highest, is nevertheless

very good. I

THE PETRIFIED NATIVE. Our readers will remember the action Craig v. Wehl relative to the body of the native taken by the former from the cave on Mosquito Plains. After the action the body was, by the order of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, restored to its place in the cave and protected by iron bars to prevent it from being again taken by any naturalist or collector. These bars, however, have been torn away and the body removed. The police are on the alert, and if the body-snatchers found, whatever punishment may be awarded to him, we hope the body may, as suggested by "A Voice from the Cave," in our impression of last Saturday, be placed in the museum at the Institute, where it will be safe from further molestation,