SPORTING.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5058, 30 March 1885, Page 2

SPORTING.

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ONEHUNGA RACES.

Auckland, Yesterday. The Onehunga races yesterday were poorly attended. . The principal event! resulted at follows :—

Hvbdle Race.—Mignonette, 1; Even* ing Star, 2; Seagull, 3. jJacino Club Handicap.—Rewi, 1 j Mitrailleuse, 2; Victoria, 3. Rewi won easily. There was a protest by the owner of. Mitrailleuse, on the ground ot a cross. The decision was sustained, which caused great dissatisfaction to the public.

.Railway Handicap.—Rewi 1; Mitrailleuse, 2 ; Kalo, 3. Won eariiy.

TARANAKI RACES. New Plymouth, Saturday. District Handicap of SOsovs, one

mile and a distance.—Okato, 1; Buzzard, 2; Endymion, 3. Time, 2mins 32ieei.

THE BONANZA KINGS OF ,

COLORADO.

The Chicago News says,:—There never was a more improvident set of men than the Colorado bonanza kings. Inaptitude for business life was alto a striking char* acteristic. Chaffee frittered away the balk of his immense fortune on railroad stocki '-about which he knew nothing, absolutely nothing. For years his life had been. mainly spent in the neighborhood of the " ticker." Bob Green, once a wealthy placer-miner, is a miserable pauper^ wan* dering about the streets of Denver. Col. Dudley, the possessor of hundreds of thousands not many years since,is enjoying the life of the gentleman on the collection of supposedly bad loans made when he wai affluent. Riohe, the discoverer of the> Little Pittsburgh, is in a fair way to soon, return to his shoemaker bench. He it was who paid £10,000 for a wife, and who* when he shot Pat Dillon in a saloon brawl said, "Iv I haf kilt him, sent arbunt the pill in the morning." George Daly was killed by the Apaches. His debts, which were cancelled by his tragic death, are said to be enormous. He led a life that for fastness was nerec surpassed in the West. Nelson Hal* leek, discoverer of the Carbanate mine, and William Yankee, of the Yankee Consolidated, have a mere pittance left between them. Jim Williams, one of the discoverers of the Grand View, did not have enough money to buy a eoffia when he was shot down in a Silver City dance hall. Sill West,.his partner, is • destitute drunkard at Leadville, dependent upon a chair in some friendly drinking; resort for a sleeping place. . George Houston, of the Big Pittsbnrg, died penniless in an Ohio insane a#ylum. Gen. Craig, of the Little Giant, died of paralysis of the heart after a night'i debauch.