SPORTING

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 4 December 1902, Page 3

SPORTING

TAKAPUNA RACES.

GEOLOGIST RUNS SECOND IN WELTER.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Inst night. Tho Takapunu .Jockoy Club's Spring Mooting was concluded to day. Tho Weather wits fine, and tho attendance satisfactory. The amount put through tho totalisator was XUO32. Tho following fli-c the icsuits : Stanley Handicap.—Vulpino 1, Hill flower 2, Bastion 3. Scratched : Cygnet and Telephone. Time, 51 4 5 soe. Divs., inßiao X 6 18s Oil and XI 17s 6d, outside X 5 16s and XI 13s. Handicap Hurdles. —lterseverenco 1, Ineheape 2, Tip 3. Scratched : Cannongate, Princess o’ Thule, Tim, Hippowai. Time, 3.23. Divs., inside X 25 6s and X2 16s, outsido X 47 os. Spring Handicap.—Romeo 1, Formula 2, Putty 3. Scratched : Ragabrash and Geologist. Time, 1.44 35. Divs., insido X 3 3s, outside £2 16s. Second Hack. —Green and Gold 1, Wollcast 2, Queen Ann 3. Scratched : Muskerdalo and Irish. Time, 1.32. Divs., insido XI 15s and XI 2s, outsido XI 16s 6d and XI Os 6d. Pony Handicap.—Girton Girl 1, Solitary 2, Sentinel 3. Scratched : Annoyed, Vulpine, Ukase. Timo, 1.7. Divs., inside XI 16s 6d and X2 lls 6d, outsido XI 15s 6d and X2 19s. Handicap Steeplechase.—Nor’-wost 1, Princeaß o’ Thulo 2, ivlatarawa 3. Boratchod : Troshatn, Economist, and Sirdar. Time, 6.30 2-5. Divs., insido X 8 12s 6d and 16s 6d. Cautley Handioap.—Formula 1, Hill flower 2, Spalpeen 3. Scratched : St Olga, Mechanic, and Cygnet. Timo, 1.19. Divs., insido X2 3s, outsido X2 Is. Weltor Handicap.—Ragabrash 1, Goolo gist 2, Wollcast 3. Scratched : St. Olga and Buglor. Time, 1.46 2.5. Divs., inside X 4 18s, outsido X 5 Bs.

NEWS CUPPINGS

Ten thousand cannon have been made for 40 States at Krupp’s Essen Works, where 47,000 work-people arc employed. Permission lias at last been given for naval officers on duty and in uniform to ride bicycles in Portsmouth Dockyard.

A Dunedin electioneering canvasser who sought to wean a lady elector from the Barclay side, is looking for friends from whom, to procure cuticle for skin-grafting purposes. She defended her rights with boiling water. The essential idea of the declaration of policy advanced by the excision of all protective dutios in respect of tho Transvaal is, assumably, that in Lord Milner’s view South Africa is not yet ready for Protection. It is not yet a groat country like the United States, which is able to produce tuoro than it wants, is independent of imports, and is therefore in a position to truckle with Protection or Free Trade as it thinks fit. Nevertheless South Africa is a country that can bo made great, which must become great when it has employed tho energy and tho industrial determination to achiovo that end, and has realised, in a word, that its destiny is tho samo as great America—to bo indo pendent of tho outside world and to bo ablo at tho samo timo to assumo tho role of a great people. It is a conception apart from the schisms of politicians who are more concerned with tho sweets of offieo than tho high duties of industrial leaders of their people, and who have yet to loarn that modern statesmanship has treater responsibilities than tho formal approximation of public revenue and expenditure. —Tho Hand Daily Mail, Johannesburg. Thoro was something to bo said in explanation of qualified protection by a State which flow a foreign flag, whoso electorate was essentially a farming one, and whose gonoral policy, being at tho very least directed against any extension of British authority in South Africa, was to bloed every stranger and overy strange enterprise within its gates. But Mr Kruger's Government carried its protectionist policy to tho verge of political lunacy. Not only were tho largo requirements of tho mining centres debited with tho payment of duties out of all proportion to tho producing capacity of the lioers, but concessions were granted in rospect of nearly every articlo of production and manufacture to tho extent of an all-round protective duty at 33 1-3 per cent. No country could have for over remained at peace under such conditions. There is every reason for assuming, indeed, that had Mr Kruf'er not cleverly masked the ey"s of his bur"hcrs as to tho causes which led up to tho deep resentment felt in Uitlander circles over his general policy there was no nationality of uitlanderism so far as that resentment wont—a revolution would ultimately have become inevitable. —Baud Paily ilaili Johanaeaburg.