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Dunstan Times, Issue 507, 5 January 1872, Page 5 (Supplement)

"Jilgles," mthe Australasian, rehiar-ks:— Ilitlicito, "beastly drank" has been a figure of speech -without any derivation—for the beasts of the field do not drink more than is wholesome, and they do not, from choice, sc'cct intoxicating beverages. But we are nowmakingtkc expression applicable. Th«y (i.e., the sporting writers) say that the cowardly Pivetor won his race at Sandhurst after a bottle of brandy had been administered to him. (Jlencoe was pointed out to me a s very drunk indeed upon the Melbourne course, and ho certainly comported himself in a somewhat tipsy manner, I think that to administer a bottle of brandy U a horse is simply brutal, and is almost testable as to make a child don"t recollect practices of this kind on English racecourses, and doubt if they would be permitted. If dumb animals are to be maltreated in that way to make them gallop faster, why not go a step further by starting them with hot prickers, ami keeping them going with piano wire wips ?" When is a rifleman better than his rifle When lie caps it.