Racing Reminiscences.

Hastings Standard, Issue 80, 29 July 1896, Page 4

Racing Reminiscences.

[By (iV GK.VND.]

| "We'll do 1 remember the big run in i the Australian Cup in 1889, between I,the two Now Zealand champions I Loehiel and Carbine, and eight j others. The former had Bst 7lb to old Jack's lib less. Wally Clifford was up on Loehiel and made a great race of it, managing to get home in front of the son of Musket. On the morning before the race the following appeared ia the Melbourne Argus : Loehiel: Go rum-reeking tipster and preach to the crocks, Nor pollute any longer the air of my box. But know that the horse is not fooled that can rob Loehiel of the prize when he is fair on the job. I come from the land of the torrent and peak ; Am as fast as the wind, and can stay for a week. Then welcome be Richmond's gre?.*. son to the test, He's a good 'un I know, but I won't give him best He'll lind Mentor the second in Prince Charlie's son, For I'll do him on Tuesday as sure as a K'm. Though Pinll's skilful hand has improved him a stone, And O'Brien's a terror to finish I'll own ; But ne'e-r shall New Zealand such destiny meet, As would to her lot in Lochiel's defeat. When they reach the home turn I won't leave it too late, And a nice chance they have in the run in the straight. I'm as fit as a fiddle from fetlock to mane, I've won here before and I'll win here again. To the chance of Victoria though firmly you're wed, The viet'ry shall go to New Zealand instead. MI.iI.'ELLAXF.nrS XEITS'. Subscriptions to the Mayor of Melbourne's fund for the Brunner disaster have reached .£I2OO. A woman and four children were locked up at Brisbane the other night at their own request. They told the police that the landlord had turned them out in the bitter colli, and they had nowhere to go. The new Matorua Freezing Works, just completed at Taranaki, are equipped with the latest Lincle-British freezing apparatus and driving power. The works have been erected principally for manufacturing ice for storing butter and cheese. In the report of the Licensing Convention Social gathering at Wellington on Saturday evening, the Times states that Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, of Napier, in replying to the toast of " The Press " made the speech of the evening, which was heartily applauded. Master St. John Gaisford Spackman, ex-Christcbureli lad, recent!v did so well in a mathematics examination at Cheltenham College, England, that the Head Master of Cheltenham has awarded him an exhibition of £4O a year, tenable for two years. A small South Canterbury boy told his Sunday-school teacher the other Sunday that he would like to have gone fishing that afternoon but his papa wouldn't let him. ' Quite right,' said the teacher, with a glad smile. ' Your father is a good man. Did he explain to you why you couldn't go ?' ' Yes, sir. He said there wasn't bait enough for two.' The following is a recent Auckland record in football: —" Surman, formerly of Wellington, had his nose broken at football in Auckland on Saturday. He also received two kicks on the temple. Absolum another player in the same match, had his chest badly hurt. In another match in Auckland a player named Freeman had his collarbone injured. The Maoris are represented in the Parliament of New Zealand (writes M. Leroy Beaulieu in the Revue des Deux Monties for Ist June, 1890) by four deputies chosen by universal suffrage, who have all the rights of their white colleagues. One of them, Mr. Hone Heke, is quite the most tluent orator of the whole House, and very popular among the colonists. The British drink bill for last year shows an increase of expenditure, compared with 1894, of no less than £3,676,984. England, Scotland, and Ireland share in the responsibility for this heavy outlay. Beer, accoding to the figures published, still holds supreme sway over English taste, while Sandy has become more enamored than ever of whisky. Strange to say, the Irish people are beginning to betray a decided partiality for beer. The following is the result of the drawing for Tattersall'a sweep on the Grand National Hurdle Race, which closed with 800 subscribers and was drawn pro rata.: —First prize, .£4OOO, J. Webb, Permanent Artillery Lyttelton; second prize, £IOSO, G. Ahea.n, Armadale, Melbourne; third prize, £SOO, W.Balfour, Werribee ; fourth prize, .£250, H. Bellub, Toorak; fifth prize, £250, M'Lean and Gallagher, Black Mountain; sixth prize, £250, J. Baker, Glenelg ; seventh prize, £250, J. Raulston Smith, Pitt street, Sydney. Says the Wairarapa Times:—One of the highest class of -apparatus for producing the now celebrated Rontgen rays, ■which will enable the bony structure of the human and all other animal systems to be looked into, will arrive in Masterton at an early date to the order of Dr. W. H. Hosking. The apparatus is a very powerful one, and will be capable of producing the bone picture of any vertebrate organism. The ordinary apparatus, as used by the medical profession, produces a six inch spark; the one Dr. Hosking is getting produces a nine inch spark. It is highly gratifying to have a medical man in our midst who exhibits such determination to acquire the latest and most scientific apparatus in use by the profession.