SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 255, 8 October 1884, Page 2

SPORTING.

MELBOURNE CUP SCRATCHINGS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Melbourne, October 7. Frenchman has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. CESARE WITCH STAKES. London, October 7. The race for the Cesarewitch Stakes to-day resulted as follows :— St. Gatien .. 1 Polemic .. .. .. .. 2 Archduc .. .. .. .. 3 NAPIER RACES. [Own Correspondent.] Napier, October 8. The second day’s races of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club Spring Meeting was held yesterday, and was as well attended as the first day, notwithstanding the weather being ■< 11 and showery. The racing throughout was very good, and the amount put through the totalisator was about £4,700, making in the two days over £9,000. The following are ’ he results :— Handicap Hurdles, 75 sovs., 2 miles. Pastime .. .. .. ..1 Denbigh 2 Minuet .. .. .. .. 3 Three others ran. There was a very exiting finish between Pastime and Denbigh he former eventually winning by about halfsi length. Spring Handicap, 200 sovs., U miles. Trigidea .. .. .. .. 1 Pearl .. .. t e .2 Bayard .. .. ..3 Five others ran. Tigridea won easily by about four lengths.

Maiden Plate, 50 sovs.. 1| mile. Forerunner .. .. .. 1 Christina' .. ~ .. ..2 Misdeal 3 Only these three ran, the others being scratched. It was a well contested race, and was won by h&lf-a-length. Consolation Handicap, 80 sovs., 1 mile. Administratorl Breeze 2 Emir BeyB This was a very good race, and was won by about a length.

Sydney has 100 miles of streets. In the States there are fifteen million horses. At the funeral of a Liverpool athlete a feature of the procession was a line of bicyclists on their machines. The most remnkable echo known is that on the north side of a church at Shipley. It repeats 21 syllables. At Naples the carbineer Marino, who killed his superior officer recently, has been sentenced to death. The principal trees in New Caledonia are the naouli, very closely resembling in appearance the eucalyptus of Australia; the kauri, a similar tree to that which is found in New Zealand ; the acacia, the pine, rosewood, and hardwood.