SPORTING.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 976, 24 August 1903, Page 1

SPORTING.

AVONDALE SPRING MEETING.

The following weights have been declared by Mr Evefcfc for events to be run at the Avondale Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting Avondale Cup, lj miles.— Strathavon 8.12, The Needle 8.4, Putty and Durable 8.2, Romeo 8.2, Val Rosa and Marshal Soult 8.0, Heroism 7.9, Torchon 7.7, Ropa and Kamo 7.5, Dolores 7.4, Swagsman and Muskerdale 7.3, Miss Lottie 7.0, Merry Soult 6.11, Soultfish and Zulieka 6,10, Bonheur 6.9, Idas 6.7.

Steeplechase, 3 miles. —Nor’-Wost 11.12, Straybird 11.6, The Pullack 10.7, Tuni and Inchcape 9.12, Wild Rose and Kanaka 9.11, Puffing Billy and Tolophone 11. 9.10, Hylas 9.7.

Flying Handicap. 6 furlongs.—Hohoro 10.6, St. Olga 8.9, Marshal Soult 8.8, Austerlitz, Cygnet and Romeo 8.6, Black and Gold 8.4, Torchon 8.0, Rex 7.12, Ropa and Kamo 7.9, Glasgow and Cordon Rouge 7.8, Merry Soult and Soultfish 7.2, Camille 7.0, Maoriland 6.11, Jack Brown 6.10, Hesper 6.7.

Five fresh cases of scarlet fever, and two of tuberculosis, were reported in Wellington laßl week.

Two men wero injured in a blasting ac cident in the British mine, Broken Hill* New South Wales, last week. A well-sinker named James Melvor committed suioide at Tambo, Queensland, by drinking a solution of cyanide. The infant daughter of Mr John Willite has been drowned in a waterhole in a back yard at Wyalong, New South Wales,

A lad named Willie Field, a son of Mr James Field, of Morara station, has been drowned in the Darling, New South Wales. The splendid rains which have fallen on the upper tributaries of the Darling (New South Wales), practically ensure the navigation of the river for several months to come.

A frostfish was caught by Messrs 0. Johnston and J. Smyth, between Hampden and Moeraki, Otago, whioh measured sft IT} in length, and weighed 171 b. Ashburton, Canterbury, has been undergoing an epidemic of burglaries, from which it has hitherto been immune. Five daring entrances were effected in the town in one night recently. A number of Swiss milkers in the Hawera district are giving much satisfaction to owners of cows by their steady work and kindly methods. They state that many of their countrymen will follow. It has been decided by the Wellington City Council •to pay £350 in full settlement of the amount to be contributed by the Council towards the raising and restoration of the standard survey blocks of the city. At tho Shipwreok Relief Society’s annual meeting, at Sydney, at whioh the Governor of :New South Wales presided, Sir John See announced that the Government would increase its contribution next year by £SOO.

As a result of no-license in Bruoe, a Milton hairdresser is (according to the Bruoe Herald), contemplating giving up business, the fact of there being no hotels open having had a cheek on . a number of persons who previously came in from the surrounding districts on Saturday. The New Zealand team has shown that the 11 hard Englishmen ” whom Kingsley loved so : well are being reproduced in these southern islands, and the members will, wo feel sure, receive the heartiest of welcomes on their return home in a few days’ time. The proposed tour to Great Britain next year will be awaited with additional interest, and New Zealanders hope to see their representatives victorious iu the land of their fathers. —Auckland Star,

Panama hats, which last year were extremely popular here (writes a New York correspondent last month), and cost from £5 to £3O each, aro no longer fashionable, and are being replaced by ordinary Btiff straw sailor hats. The principal market for Panamas has been transferred to England. The downfall of Panamas is attributed to ohoap imitations, the rakish and peculiar method of wearing which prejudiced many against it.

Young men of to-day oan look forward to marriage with less hope of getting a housemaid, laundress, and cook oombined than they could a few years ago, says a correspondent of the Auckland Star. Girls are beginning to see the true side of life a little better than they would have done ten years ago, and as they can get good employment and good wages, and are not afraid to work for it, they are not slow enough to run away with the first, or second, one who says “ Be my fair bride 1” I think I speak for a good many girls when I say that young men are not encouraged because they are so inconsistent. Who wishes to be complimented and made muoh of by some one who treats every girl the same? Fall out with his girl to-day and get a new one to-morrow. No ; girls like to know that they can be independent in the present age, and every girl with a fair amount of commoDsense and go oan live and enjoy life to the full, whereas if they were married it would mean stay at home and be your hubby’s lackey while he goes to races, plays, smoke concerts, etc. Of course, all cannot be judged by one, but it takes a very long time nowadays to take the depths of a man’s oharacter correctly, and I, for one, and a good many more like me, feel that the game is not worth the candle.

The Judge on the Bench, the lordly M.P., The man on the stage, whoever he be, . The lawyer so grave, the jolly ’Jack ■Tar, The stern-visaged soldier who’s Tjeen in the war. The hard-working man, the knowing M.D., All happen on this one point to agree : Thac for very bad colds the thing to procure Is W. E. WOODS’ .GREAT PEPPEK- ' MINT .CURE.