SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1298, 17 March 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

NAPIER RAOSfI. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NAPIER, March 16. The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club Autumn Meeting was held in lovely weather on both days, and there was consequently a very largo attendance. The racing was excellent, ana the arrangements also. The totalisators were well patronised, but as, in most cases, the winner was the favorite, the dividends were but small. The following are the results i — FIRST DAY-THURSDAY, IJthMAHCM Maiden Plate, of 60 sovs : one and a half miles, Leonata (Wattle) ... 1 Fredericka (Butler) 2 Pastime (Gilpin) ... ... 3 —Panic and Incense also ran, Otupapa was scratched. Incense took the lead for the first half mile, when Leonata came to the front. Fredericda now made a big effort to get a lead on entering the straight, but Leonata was not to be denied, and won by a good length. Time : 2mins. 51 secs. The totalizator declared a dividend of £2 ss. Welter Handicap, of 100 wove.; second 1 horse to receive 20 sovs. from the stake. Distance, two miles. ; Loch Lomond (Jones) 1 j Canard (Luna) 2 j Heretaunga (Edwards) ... 3 . —McLean s Lubra also ran. Leonata was i scratched. Heretaunga took up the running followed closely by Loch Lomond and Lubra, Canard being last. At the half mile from home the light weights fell out, and the race then lay between Lomond and Canard, the former winning by two lengths. Time : 4mins. 6secs. The totalisator declared a dividend of £1 18s. Napier Handicap, of 500 sovs.; second horse to receive 50 sovs., and third horse to receive 20 sovs. from the stake. Distance, one and three-quarter miles. Mischief (Wattle) ... ... 1 Leonora (Taylor) ... ... 2 Luna (Butler) ... ... 3 —Louie, Libeller, Hippodamla, Kingask, Rangipo, Te Ata, Otupapa, and The Poet also ran. Buzzard and Constellation did not start. Hippodamia and Luna rushed to the front. At the Railway turn Kingask took first Elace, but at the Sheds he fell back beaten, ieonora taking the lead. At the Itriaight Wattie called on Mischief, and came in a winner by three-quarters of a length; Leonora two lengths from Luna. Time 3mins 15sec. Dividend, £l2 7s. Nursery Plate, of 100sovs.; for2-year-olds; distance, half a mile ; colts, Bst Slbs: fillies and geldings, Bst 21bs. Epicure (Butler) ... ... 1 Rubina (Douglas) ... ... 2 Jacob ... ... ... 3 —Lord of the Isles also ran. | Epicure led from the start to the finish, I winning in a canter by a length from Robina. Time, 53 t 'sec. Dividend, £3 7s. Hack Race, of 20 sovs.; distance, 1 mile; Vost entrance, 2 sovs.; no weight under 0 stone ; winner to be sold for 30 sovs. Parawhenua ... ... 1 —This event was won easily. Railway Stakes Handicap, of 125 sovs.; second horse to receive 20 sovs. frohi the stake ; distance, three-quarters of a mile.

Minerva ... ... ... 1 Luna ... ... ... 2 Hippodamia ... ... 3 —Mischief, Kingask and Kuni also started. ; Leonora, Rangipo and Fredericka were i scratched, j Minerva raced away in advance, and held I the lead to the halt distance, when Luna ; challenged her, an exciting contest being won by the former by half a length. SECOND DAY-FRIDAY, 16th MARCH. Grand Stand Handicap, of 150 sovs. | 2nd horse to receive 20 sovs. from the stake. Distance, 2 miles. Luna ... ... .., 1 Louie ... ... ... f Leonata ... ... ... f Libeller) Leonora and The Laird never left the post owing to some gross mismanagement. The three above mentioned horses never faced the starter, but were doing a preliminary canter when the flag fell. Luna won by a length, with a trifle in hand. After this race Capt. Russell made a short speech, exonerating the starter from all blame. The public, however, wore much dissatisfied. Dividend, £6 4s. Provincial Produce Stakes, of 100 sovs.: distance, 1 mile ; weight for age. Carmen ... ... ... 1 Ngaro Filly ... 2 Pastime ... ... ... 3 A good start was effected, the Ngaro Filly getting the best of it, closely followed by Carmen who soon overtook the filly at the .[-mile pest, and won as he liked by 4 or 5 lengths, Pastime a good 3rd. A dividend was declared of £2 10s. Handicap Hurdle Race, of 150 sovs.; 2nd horse to receive 25 sovs. from the stake. Distance, about two and a half miles. Canard . . ... ... ] Loch Lomond ... ... 2 Wild Day roll 3 Heretaunga ... ... (J Dayrell and Heretaunga took the first hurdle together, when the former took the Iqgd, which he maintained until half a mile from home, when Loch Lomond challenged him, and a grand race home ensued, the last-named leading up the straight. There Lunn challenged Loch Lomona with Canard, who won by about two lengths ; Wild Dayrell a good third, carrying a 71b penalty. Dividend, £2 15s.

Tradesmen’s Handicap, of 200 sovs.; 2nd horse to receive 25 sovs from the stake. Distance, one and a half miles. Tim Whiffler ... ... 1 Hippodamia ... ... 2 Poet ... ... ... 3 —Mischief was scratched. Leonora, Otupapa, and Kincraig also ran. Poet jumped away with the lead, Tim Weiffler being next. Poet led past the stand on to the far side of the course when he gave way to Hipdodamia, who led until entering the straight when Tim challenged her and won a good race by a length. The Poet a good 3rd. A dividend was declared of £8 16s. Autumn Handicap, of 100 sovs.: distance, three-quarters of a mile; for 2 and 3 year-olds. Minerva ... ... 1 Yankee ... ... ... 2 Kingask . . ... ... 3 - F<angipo, Jacob, and Carmen also started for this race. L» onora, Fredericka and Epicure were scratched. Minerva took the lead, closely followed by Yankee, which position was maintained all through, Minerva finally landing by a neck ; Kingask well up. Dividend, £2 6s. Consolation Handicap, of 50 sovs.; distance, one mile. Poet ... ... j Hippodamia . . ... o —Won easily.

If St, Patrick, the anniversary of whose natal day will be celebrated all over the universe to-day, could but look on at the misery and strife existing in the nation of which he is the patron saint he would feel •arrowful. St. Patrick’s day has rarely been ushered in with a darker prospect that of March 17th, 1883, We in New Zealand do not take so personal an interest as those dwelling in Ireland, but we are sorry that a day which has always been looked upon as one on which nothing but merriment and fun should be indulged in, should have oe’r head so black a cloud. If what we hear of wheat growing in the Wairoa be true, it can scarcely be said to be a paying industry in that district. At any rate the following is vouched for A settler in the Wairoa put in 7 to 8 acres of wheat. He had a very fair crop, which was duly cut and and stacked. None of his neighbours having any crops, and no machines being at hand, the question of threshing croppea up. (No ioke intended.) After vainly offering a shilling, eighteenpence, two •hillings a bushel to have it threshed, the farmer was obliged to offer half the entire crop to anyone who would thresh and bag it. We are informed (and can quite believe it) that settler has been heard to “swear” he will never grow wheat again ! It is only fair to add that the person who took the job on halves ” don’t make much, the cost of shifting mechinary eating up all the the profit. Moral, cereals don’t pay I—in the Wairoa.— B. Herald. It is clear (says the Hawera Star) that Te Kooti was offered a pardon if he would be pleasant and cut no more throats ; and we . say that a pardon should not have been granted on such a footing. If Te Kooti whs anxious to become a free man, he should have been told to write regretting what had gone before, promising to assist the ment in all ways for the future, and asking a pardon. In some such way, assuming it was desirable to grant a pardon at all, which we doubt, the colony might at anyrate have been spared humiliation. In a Christchurch evening paper a day or two ago appeared the following “ The persons who eased me of about 2c wt of coal last night are requested to come out again to night, and I will wait up for them. Refreshments— Ginger ale, cake, and a small bull pup.—J. Wheatley.” While the Town Clerk was last night reading the items of an account against the Council for medical comforts supplied to a person who was receiving aid from the Borough, he in gentle and zephyr-like tones called out “ Brandy and port wine.” A wag through the open door. “ Brandy and port wine ! yes, that’s about your fit I ” —Thames Star. In the absence of big gooseberries, the following is the kind of intelligence now being furnished by some of our country contemporaries to their readers:—“ The wife of Mr James Speedy, of Sandon, who recently gave birth to a son, discovered yesterday that the infant had a well-developed double tooth in the back of his mouth. There were not the slightest signs of any other teeth coming. The occurrence is a very rare one, but cases have been known of children being born with a full set of teeth.” A settler in the bush inland of the Normanby-Manaiaroad, who was unsuccessful in burning last season, sowed oats in among the fallen bush in the hope that much would take root and grow, ana so prevent the nuisance of undergrowth and save the expense of a second underscrubbing. The oats ran up to 7 feet in height, and the straw being lighted carried the fire along the ground in every direction, rapidly firing the whole of the fallen bush, the result being a ; most successful burn.— JFawyaswi Herald. At the Christchurch R.M. Court lately, a man made the somewhat remarkable application for a prohibition order against himself The applicant, who had been in trouble several times for too free indulgence, explained that his employer was willing to reengage him, but only on condition that a prohibition order was issued. The Bench thought that it would be better the appliestion should be made by the employer or some other friend, when they would be prepared to consider it. We (Wairarajpa 2><tt7y) have heard that Mr McKenzie, of kopuaranga Valley, has grown k tiOOlbs of hops this season on a quarter acre of land and that he has been offered four shillings a pound for them by Messrs Caselberg and Co. Next season we should think that this enterprising hop grower should go in for a whole acre and make £5OO out of it, A sample of the hops were exhibited by the grower at the the late horticultural show and were of first rate quality. This will encourage others to go and ao likewise. The climate and quality of the land in this valley is undoubtly suited to the culture of hops, and the time has arrived when we should be able to export rather than import this valuable product.