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■with drooping head and ears, glassy eyes and 

 tucked-up flanks. The other horse looked iDloom- 

 ing. Things were getting very " hot." The 

 riders, having weighed out, were started off, and 

 the unfortunate animal which I had matched to 

 be a flyer, tried in vain to canter for fifty yards, 

 and then relapsed into a slow trot, out of which no 

 efforts of his rider could move him. Dr. Harris's 

 horse cantered past the winning post alone. I 

 believe a good lot of money changed hands over 

 this odd business. If Lord Durham or Mr. James 

 Lowther could pay a flying visit here, horse-racing 

 prospects might improve. OtherAvise there are 

 three or four jockeys out of employment in England, 

 to whom I can confidently recommend Mashona- 

 land as a congenial sphere for the exercise of their 

 jDeculiar talents. 



The work of organizing the administration of 

 the country proceeds apace. Magistrates have 

 been appointed for the districts of Manica, Victoria, 

 Fort Salisbury, and Hartley Hill. I believe these 

 gentlemen are invested with all the power and 

 authority in civil and criminal cases which is 

 exercised by a judge of the High Court in Cape 

 Colony. A municipal council will soon be elected 

 for the government of the settlement at Fort 

 Salisbury. Its duties will be to frame and enforce 

 sanitary laws and regulations and to maintain the 

 local highways and streets. Half the building- 

 stand tax and a doo:-tax are amono- the sources of 

 revenue to be assigned to this council. The police 

 force has been reduced during the last two months 



