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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 972, 24 August 1881, Page 3

A Home correspondent writes : —The Derby has been won by an American horse. The blue riband of the turf has gone to France and Hungary, but this is the first"time it has been carried across the Atlantic. Archer received no less than £5OOO for riding Iroquois to victory. Fred has well deserved his name as the- “ ail-conquering,” for in two successive years he has won the Derby by his splendid jockeying. He is a very rich man. It is estimated that he is worth nearly £lOO,OOO. When Mrs. Lorillard, the wife of the owner of Iroquois, congratulated him after she said, “ There will be fine doings in New York to-day.” And the lady was right, for the Americans have displayed unbounded jubilance at their victory. The following are the acceptances for the Napier Jockey Club’s Meeting:—Spring Handicap: Foul Play, Grand Duchess, King Quail, Badsworth, My Dream, Rewi, Mischief, Mavis, Afghan, Rawdon, Angler, Kincraig, Slander filly, Sydney, The Squire, Firefly, and Uira. Flying Handicap.—Foul Play, Grand Duchess, Badsworth, Rewi, Mischief, Afghan, Rawdon, Slander filly, The Laird, The Squire, Loch Lomond, Firefly, Nellie, Louie, Hero, Prim, Novelty, and Occult Colt. —Hurdles : Loch Lomond, Morning Star, Uira, Ada, and Will-if-I-can. The acceptances for the Spring Handicap number seventeen out of twenty-one entries, and Flying Handicap nineteen out of twentyseven.

“ Paddy Murphy,” writing from Lambton Kay,” to the Saturday Advertiser, says :— “ People is wondhrin up here how the dickins Docthor Wallis lamed the game o’ fan-tan, but, begorra, I know all about it, so I do. About a fortnight ago I happened to dhtop into Jack McGinnity’s, to have a hand at fortyfives wid Jack, when, who the jooce should I find in the little back parlour beyant the bar but the docthor, sittin’ taty-tate (Frinch) with a Chineyman, who grows cabbages out at the Hutt, be the name of Chung Chow. ‘ What in the name av’all that’s lucky are ye doin’ here, at all, at all, sittin’ op-possit a common Chineymah, docthor, asthore ?’ see I. ‘Whisht, Paddy,’ says the docthor, * I’m just gittin’ an snsight into the game o’ fan-tan, for the Lottery Bill debate,’ ses he. ‘ D’ye tell me so,’ says I. An’ sure-enough, there was John insthructin’ the docthor in the mystheries o’ the game. This is how the docthor larned all about fan-tan.”

The latest illustration of “ Japhet in Search of a Father ” is given in the following narrative : —ln the beginning of last year a young woman named Elizabeth McVeagh, who, with her parents, are natives of Newagh, County Tipperary, settled at Greymouth, on the West Coast. From thence the young woman cOme on to Auckland to be confined, the event taking place in April of that year, when she gave birth to a little boy. About two months after her confinement she induced a poor woman to nurse it for her, paying so mueh a-week, and took a situation with Mr. Ballin, of Kihikihi, as domestic servant, in July of the same year. From that date to this she has never looked after the child or supplied it with necessaries. About December last Miss McVeagh got married to a man at Hamilton. During the first quarter the child was put out Miss McVeagh gave the nurse some money, but after that she received nothing. This poor woman has the child now saddled upon her to maintain, while she can find no trace of the unhataral mother, who has left the Waikato district. As the child’s father is believed to reside at Greymouth, it is to be hoped that the. Greymouth papers will give due publicity to this paragraph, so that he may be able to claim his offspring or to maintain it.

Mr. David Doull, of the Crescent, Wyndham, Otago, and late of Gisborne, writes to the Otago Daily Times in reference to the East Coast Native Land and Settlement Company, and having been a resident of the Poverty Bay District as an owner of Station property, he writes with authority as to the character of the country and the feelings of the Natives towards the proposed Company. He says that a large number of the leading chiefs and landowners are strongly in favor of the Company, and are prepared to assign to it large areas of excellent land, as they believe their interests will be better promoted than by selling their lands in the ordinary way There is a strong opposition shown to the Company on the part of European speculators and others interested, who have never been known to do the district any good ; but he feels confident that the Company has the elements of great success—that it is quite feasible and, if properly managed, will bring large profits to the Europeans connected with it as well as enable the Natives to obtain a for higher price for the lands than they otherwise would. He mentions further that he lately sold his station on the East Coast, but intends taking shares in the Company, knowing that, in spite of the strong opposition encountered from interested parties, it is likely to be a great success. Qf one thing he is satisfied—that is, the strong desire of the great bulk of the Natives there, especially the chiefs and leading men, to put their land into the Company ; and that with this favorable feeling on the part of the Natives, the Company will have no difficulty in obtaining perfect titles, which has been such a trouble to speculators, who have been trying to get the land out of the hands of the Natives at nominal prices.