NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2269, 11 July 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE PBESB ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 9. Crime. At the Supreme Court, the charge of perjury against Shepherd, a Whatawhata settle, broke down on a technical flaw in the indictment. The arson case against the Hendons is fixed for Monday. John Elliott, larceny, was acquitted. Edward Lorgatz, for unlayfully wounding the steward of the shjp Oxford, who gave evidence against him fur broaching cargo, got a year. Trumpery News. A girl named Annie Austin charged h;r mistress at the Police Court with assault. It transpired at the hearing that the girl was not perfectly sane, and the case was dismissed. Liberated. On the release of the Hero from quarantine the passengers presented Captain McGee wiih an address acknowledging his kindness io them. NEW PLYMOUTH July 9. Maori Feast. The Natives are preparing for a largo fetst at Parihaka. Twenty-five carts came irto town yesterday, and returned, taking 15 tons of flour. 3 tons of sugar, 20 boxes tea, and other things. The Mokau Natives have started up the river to peg off the boundaries of thsir land on this side of the river with a view of putting it through the Land Court. WELLINGTON, July 9 Query the Drink Again. A fireman named Harry Bell, belonging to the steamer Hnia, was found in the water shortly before midnight on Saturday. He was in an exhausted state, and was taken to the Hospital, where he succumbed. An inquest will be held. FireAn outbreak of fire occurred in Mr Cato’s shop at ten o’clock last night, but was extinguished before much damage was done. DUNEDIN, July 10. Exhibition Attendance. Two thousand nine hundred and sixty-three people attended the Exhibition on Saturday, the largest number on any [single day. Over 600 people arrived by the Exhibition train, An ExperimentalistAt the Arrow a workman blew his house to pieces in using dynamite by the hot water process. Happily himself and family were outside when the explosion occurred. Trumpery News. Ferguson v Prendiville, an assault case, was heard at the Police Court on Saturday. Ferguson recently obtained a divorce from his wife, Prendiville being the co-respondent. The latter was represented as continually trying to induce plaintiff to quarrel with him. Ho was bound over to keep the peace.

SPORTING NOTES. Br Sinead. Hornby is to be relegated to the stud during the forthcoming season, and will travel Christchurch, Leithfield and Amberley. From his conformation and breeding he should unquestionably prove a most useful sire. His terms are, I understand, five guineas, at which reasonable price he has already secured nearly forty mares. Under these circumstances early application will, no doubt, be necessary for those requiring his services for their mares. Mr Seaton, of Christchurch, will have charge of the horse during the season, and is no doubt in a position to give all particulars. Jack Laing’s boxes (says “Phaeton”) must bo getting full. At present he has the following horses in his hands :—Kenilworth, Ratcatcher, Matana, Rewi, Miss Domett, and a two-year-old colt by Papapa, out of Una.

The Gaming and Lottery Bill has passed the Upper House, and whether it will meet with equal success in the Lower remains to be seen. The Derby Sweeps, now so popular all over this colony, being stopped, will mean that the Australian promoters of Consultations will take annually out of New Zealand quite £20,000 I don’t think that seems good enough. Further, no Calcutta Sweeps will be permitted under heavy penalties by the new Act, and in this case, as in that of tho Derby Sweeps, I think that the Upper House are really straining at a gnat, for a more harmless form of gambling could not be imagined than either of them. Personally I don’t think the Act will work very effectively. Such will be the result of trying to make ns all 'moral by Act of Parliament. Hon, members will pass an Act shortly, I shouldn’t wonder, to tell us how we are to spend our money. To return to the Bill under notice, the clauses relative to the totalisator are very favorable to that instrument. Here they are—--48. Notwithstanding anything in this Act hereinbefore contained, it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary, on the application of any racing club, to grant such club a license or authority to use the totalisator at horseracing meetings held under the control or management of such club, subject to the following conditions, viz. : (1.) Before the application of tho racing club is disposed of by the Colonial Secretary it shall be referred to the senior Resident Magistrate of the principal town of tho provincial district in which the racing club is established for his report and recommendation thereon : (2.) The authority or license shall bo in . writing, and shall be revocable at any time the Colonial Setretary thinks fit to determine the same, either by written notice to the club or by notice published in the “ Gazette” : (3.) No more than three totalisators shall be used by the club at one time, and none outside the raoe-gronuds within the control or management of the club: (4.) Every totalisator shall be under the care and management of some competent person appointed by the club, and under the direct supervision of the stewards. (a.) “ Totalisator” means the instrument for wagering or betting known by that name, and any other instrument or machine of a like nature, and conducted upon the same principles ; (6.) “ Racing club” includes any club or association formed for the purpose of promoting horse-racing, or for the management of horse-racing meetings.

49. If the conditions above mentioned are duly complied with, no person shall be liable to any penalty or forfeiture under this Act, or any other law for the time being in force relating to gaming and lotteries, for the use of the totalisator in manner hereinbefore provided.

“H. V. Bemis, of Chicago, proposes to enter his pacer Sorrel Dan in a race with Maud S. and St. Julies, each to stake 2500 dollars, and the Chicago Driving Park Association to add 10,000 dollars.” “ The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club committee held a meeting on the racecourse on Wednesday to consider what improvements were required. It was resolved to call for tenders for top dressing the course, also to enlarge the saddling paddock, which will then be more than twice its present extent, and to erect a range of scraping sheds on the western side of the paddock. Plans are to be drawn for weighing and jockeys’ rooms, and it will then be decided whether they shall be built in time for the spring meeting. Tenders for the carpenters’ work will be shortly advertised for."

Mr Q. W. H. Lee, of the Warren, Oxford, is going to put the Tubal Cain—Queen of Hearts colt into work. He is rising three, and was purchased by Mr Lee at Mr 8. Gardiner’s first sale of yearlings in Canterbury, He has, I am told, much improved since then, and promises to furnish into a big powerful colt. He will be trained by W. Milne, who commences his education to-day. I was out during the week to Crisis Lodge by the kind invitation of the owner, who drove Mr Griffith and myself out. We called en rente to have a look at the new stud, which is progressing favorably. Arrived at Crisis Lodge, Harry Fuller took us first into Hornby’s box. He was looking a bit rough with his winter coat, but in rare good trim. His height is about fifteen two, and he stands over a lot of ground. He is a long, low, very powerful horse, and very close to the ground. He has a rare back and quarters, and a plain though very intelligent head. He should get good stock of any kind, but I should be surprised if he have any good chances if he do not get some stock that will appear with credit to the sire, who was himself so bard to beat on the turf. La Mode, who occupied the next box, has grown a good deal, and looked very handsome and well, but the greatest improvement in the stable was manifest in Nonpareil, the chesnut son of Korari and No Name. He stands now nearly 16 bands, and if he do not turn out fast with such racing looking quarters I shall be surprised. He has much furnished in every way, but looks as if he had not done growing yet. Considerable improvement, particularly in quality, is shown in the Governor, who has also furnished a good deal. Should he train on, he should be worth watching for the 0.J.0. Handicap, for which he is certainly well in. His neighbor is the Joker, who was looking well and healthy, while next box was tenanted by the aptlynamed Siesta, own sister to Somnus. She is a whole rich brown, and a really handsome and very even filly, showing unusual quality, and with rare good quarters. Nonsense, the younger sister to Nemo, is a very powerful looking filly, and when she strips for the Welcome next November few of her opponents will be better able to carry the weight, while if she at all resembles her elder brother, Nemo, she should be well suited by the distance. A chesnut yearling, by Korari out of Malice, occupied another box, and a very big colt he promises to make. This is Murat, and from his breeding he should turn out a pretty speedy one. Old Maritana was in the paddock in the act of keeping Caprice and several other animals at bay from the oats she was eating, The shapely patrician dame was looking the picture of health, and will visit Hornby this season. Several improvements have been effected at Crisis Lodge. Since my last visit the ground has been fenced in with galvanized iron for over an acre round the stables, and the burnt saddle room has been replaced with a very roomy one. Says the Melbourne “Sportsman —The Tubal-Oain colt, out of Calumny, and the filly by the same sire out of Sunbeam, are about to join the fast-increasing string of careful Abe Davis,

The really gigantic wager of £20,000 to 100 was made last week by the Leviathan fielder, Mr Joe; Thomson, on the double of Derby and Cup, the taker selecting the favorite Monmouth for the flint event. It is very doubtful to me if so large a bet, and at such extremely long odds, was ever surpassed, or even equalled, by any bookmaker in the old country. ENGLISH SPOUTING. English files by the recently arrived San Francisco mail bring full particulars of the One and Two Thousand Guineas and the Chester Cup. Of the Newmarket meeting, “Vigilant,” of the “Sportsman,” says: — “ Taken as a whole the sport at Newmarket was not of a particularly exciting character, and perhaps some of it was deemed unbecoming the metropolis of racing.” While the special correspondent of the same paper has the following in reference to the runners in the Two Thousand : —“ In fact, as I have said, if I take away the winner, the field that ran for the Two Thousand Guineas was the worst that I ever saw take part in the race, and from the winner to Wandering Nun, who was the last all the way, there was not a really well-formed racehorse in the lot,” G. Fordham, ou TLebais, won his sixth One

Thousand Guineas, his previous successful mounts in that race being as follows : In 1859 he won for Mr Crawford on Mayonaise; in 1861 he rode Nemesis ; in 1865 Siberia ; ia 1868 and 1869 Formosa and Scottish Queen respectively. St, Julien, St. Patrick, and Homan, three American bred colts, the property of Mr Ten Broeok, have gone to Middle Park to acclimatise before joining Richard Marsh’s string at Lordship Farm, near Newmarket. Lord Stamford has purchased Post Obit—third in the Lincolnshire Handicap and the City and Suburban—from Mr V. B. Graham, who has also parted with Discount —winner of the Portland Plate last year—to his lordship. The lord of Bnville has also purchased the three-year-old brother to Discount, and the two-year-old brother to Isonomy, upon whom such a big reserve was placed at the sale of the Tardsley yearlings last year, has been leased by Lord Stamford for his racing career, Tho youngster has been named Privilege. All the horses will be trained by John Porter, at Kingsclere. At the Chester meeting the Middle Park bred colt Dunmore, by Scottish Chief out of Czarina, won tho Mostyn Stakes of 400eovs, for two-year-olds. He was purchased by the present Lord Bosslyn for lOOsovs as a yearling. Ha was ridden by Archer, who was most successful in the saddle throughout the meeting, winning no less than six races. Tho result of the Chester Cup will be a good piece of nows for the Auckland Stud Company, as Windsor tho winner is by Hermit out of Musket’s dam, Windsor, who has hitherto exhibited nothing higher than plating form, carried (she is a four-year-old filly) Bat 21bs. She is the property of Sir John—jolly Sir John he is called in England—Astley, Sir John is probably one of tho best all-round sportsmen in England, and has been from an early period. He got a great deal of credit when an Eton boy by making one of the earliest ascents of Mont Blanc, in company with Albert Smith, who always alluded to tho circumstance in his well-known lecture. He went from Eton into the Guards, and when the English and French troops were camped at Tarna en route for Sebastopol, a Frenchman challenged the British army to run, and was taken up by the then Mr Astley, who beat him very easily. The race took place in the presence of nearly all the forces engaged. Ho was shot in the neck at tho Alma, and came home. He kept up his love of pedestrianism of all kinds, and was the first to give valuable prizes for long distance walking. English papers say that he has become a great patron of wrestling, while in racing his colors, which are very popular, are frequently the first past the post. Windsor was at 100 to 8 as the field left tho paddock for the Chester Cup, and, as Sir John backed her to a good tune, he must have won a good stoke. Post Obit, the colt by Sterling referred to above, won (ridden by Archer) the Great Cheshire Handicap Stakes of 490 sovs. for her new owner.

We hear (Australian “Sportsman”) that great improvements are being carried oat in the way of grand stand accommodation at Ascot. No sooner had the meeting of last summer been concluded than the men were set to work to do the needful alterations, and it is not expected that they will be finished till a day or so before the races. The estimated cost of the alterations is £15,000, so that something grand should outcome. Fire King, the winner of the Dee Stand Oup at Chester, was sold to Mr T. Green for 300 guineas. The Grand International Handicap of 500 so vs at Croydon, was won for the second time by Captain Mitchell’s old horse Bogal. The Captain understands cross-country racing as well as any man in England. Blf King, a close relative of _Mr Stead’s imported mare Titania, both being out of Queen Mab, won the Newmarket Spring Handicap at the Newmarket second spring meeting. ' Peter, the son of Hermit, has been purchased by Sir John Astley. The price paid for him is said to be over £6OO. The rumor that the colt had been purchased by Mr J, B. Keene was a canard.

For the week ending May 14th Fred. Archer had sixteen mounts at the Cheater meeting, of which he won, including a walk over, nine races, and was placed second in six others. He now tops the list of winning jockeys with a score of ninety-nine, O. Wood is next with ninety-three, and Fordham next with stity-seven. A gelding by Zouave out of Mr Stead’s mare Oiinon, the property of and ridden by Lord E. Hamilton, won the 11th Hussars’ Ohallsnge Oup at Sandown. In the Breeders’ Plate, at Newmarket Spring, a eon of D’Bstournel, out of Oadogan’e dam, Bigolbooh, ran fourth, there being a dead heat between the second and third. The raco wm won by Purple and Scarlet, a son of Blue Gown out of Ouraooa (half sister to Leolinus), by The Cure, from Tasmania. The value of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes won by Peregrine was £6150; last jear, when the Duke of Beaufort’s Petronel won, the stakes amounted to £4850: in 1879 Oharibert credited I Lord Falmouth with £6250 : in 1878, when Pilgrimage won for Lord Lonsdale, the stakes only amounted to £4650; in 1877 (Ohamant’e year) they were worth £5200: in 1876 (Petrarch’s), £4100; and in 1875 (Oamballo’s) £4550. THE Y. 8.0. MEETING. The following state of the odds is from the “ Australasian ” : MABIBTENONO PLATE. 100 to 4 agst Magnet (tk) 100 100 100 100 V.B.C. DERBY, 6 to 1 agst Monmonth (tk and off) 7 1 „ Darebin (tk and off) 10 1 ~ fipinningdale (tk) 10 —1 ~ Nautilus (tk) 10 1 ~ Somerset (tk) 12 1 ~ The Duke (tk)

MELBOURNE CUP. 100 to 5 agst Monmouth (tk) 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 —3 ~ Tourmaline (tk) 100 100 100 100 —3 ~ Progress (tk) 100—3 ~ The Duke (tk) 100 V.B.C. DEBUT AND MELBOURNE CUP. 10,000 to 40 agst Nautilus and Chatterer (tk),