SPORTING NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2916, 4 March 1886, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. - AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB'S AUTUMN MEETING. ENTRIES FOR SYDNEY GOLD CUP. LATEST BETTING ON THE AUSTRALIAN CUP AND CHAMPION STAKES. (Received March 4, 0.45 a.m.) Sydney, March 3. Forty-five horses were entered tonight for the Sydney Cup, the principal event at the Australian Jockey ClubV Autumn Meeting. (Received March 4, 1.5 p.m.) Melbourne, March 4. The latest betting on the Victorian Racing Club'Autumn Meeting is as follows: Australian Cup, to be run to-day— Matchlock 3 to 1 ; Israelite and Sandal, 6 to 1. Champion Stakes, to be run on Saturday—s to 4is offered on the field, Matchlock being the favourite. PROVINCIAL NEWS - —♦- [UNITED I'RESS ASSOCIATION.! Dunedin, March 1. The following were the principal amounts paid over at the settling on the Dutiedin Jockey Club Autumn Meeting: —Major George, £964 ss; Mr J. Marshall, £836 j Mr P. Butler, £434 13s; Mr R. Biosvn, £220 8s; Mr E Lyons, £207 2s; Mr G. Stead, £194 15s; Mr H. Lunn, £190; Hon. G. M'Lean, £152; Mr H. Hammond, £ll4 19s; Mr D. O'Brien, £114; Mr H. Goodman, .£lOl ss; making, with a number of amounts under £IOO, a total of £4235 7s.

Negotiations were afloat to match Necklace and Nelson to run the Cup distance at same weights for £ISOO to .£IOOO, but they came to nothing, though it is stated Major George i.s anxious to make the stake level money, and give Necklace's supporters their own time for the race.

Nelson, March 3.

Three lads, two of them being brothers named Snodgrass, went bathing in the Maitai river this afternoon, when the two elder boys after bathing ran about, ieaviug the other in the water. On their return they missed him, and then discovered him under the water. They culled for assistance, and some men got the body out, but ho was dead. The deceased, George Snodgrass, was a bright boy of twelve, who won a provincial scholarship at Christmas, and since has been at college as a day boy. The hop crop in the country districts is said to have suffered very much from the heavy gusts of wind experienced on Monday. New Plymouth, March 3. .About six o'clock this morning, when the Hawea was about 20 miles from this port, a lunatic named Kaye managed to get through the porthole of the bathroom unobserved, and was drowned. It appears that Kaye was being conveyed to Wellington in charge of a keeper, his sister and brother-in-law having recently arrived from England for the purpose of taking him Home in the Arawa, which leaves Wellington on Saturday. This morning the lunatic was allowed to go to the bath-room alone, and being there half-an-hour, and not replying to the keepet's knock, a seaman was let down the side to look into the port-hole. He reported that it was open, but he could .see nothing hut the man's clothes. A boy then got through the port-hole who opened the hath-room door, when it was found that Kaye must have squeezed himself through the hole and got drowned. Auckland, March 3. Cardinal Mo ran, accompanied by Bishops Luck, Moran, Bray, and Reynolds, blessed and named the schools, church of Newton and Convent. He attended the grand sacred concert in the evening at St. Patrick's Cathedral. St. Benedict's Fairs closed tonight, a handsome snm having been realised.