SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 1 November 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

BY EtiECTEIO TEL&RAPH—COPYRIGHT, J, • . ' *j - s I ' *,"■ 'fttSflTKi's&OltAMS.) '. published by us si ah Extraryesterday.

MELBOUBNE,. October 31. '' Received 6:l7'J>:m;~The following I is the result of the Melbourne Cup, run to-day:-^ Assyrian ... ... 1 I Stockwell 2 Qudarz 3 The following were the starters : Davebm. Savanaka, First Water* Cunnamulla, Drummer, Pollio, Segenhoe, Sweet William, Assyria, Judas, Santa Clans', Lord Lisgar*' Odd Trick, Jessie, Stockwell, Sting, Sylvanus, Plying Jib, Mistaken, Anglesey, King of Vale',' Standard Bearer, Brunette, ;Little \Taok. Time, three minutes forty seconds.

Stockwell went away at the start, and remained at the frontftlie whole 'of the way, attended ;by Hying Jib, Guardaz, and Little Jack, They ran in much this order uatil .'the'' distance .was' readied, where Darebin looked dangerous, but his weight told against'him: The Assyrian then came in flying,, and won by half a length, ,and length separated the 'second'; and third, ahorse-. Time—3 minutesiO seconds.

'The Daeijno Stakes ; one mile and a-half. . '' -Essex'..'.' ... '■'.„'•■''' ... 1 Sinking Fund ~. ,•. ... 2 Mvo started. ~EBsex,wpnin.a.canter. '' The Yan Yean Stakes ; one mile. Baeot... ... ... ... 1 Colewort ~. 2 • Yerddr'e ' /;.;'.:!■>,'.'.!■ ,- r 3 Nineteen horses started, Bagot won by a length. Time—lrain 46seo The inclement weather greatly marred the success of to-day's, meeting, . < -

• Tp JOYCE TRAGEDY. The Dublin correspondent of the London Times narrates how the'murderers of the Joyce family were tracked and followed up until the deed of blood was enactod, The atoj-y-reada like a .romance, but is, nevertheless, true, unless the Evidence; of the three witnesses, who profess to have seen what they relate, can be overthrown. The correspondent writes':—'"'■ The story affords,.perhaps, ns curious a chapter as could be found in the history of detected crime, Maamtrassna lies in a deep defile, which stretohes away from Lo'ugh-na-Foohey, to aapur of Lough Mash, which winds away from the broader iieet of water round the 'Dergs Mountain at Cappanaoreha, in the Derrypark district. ' The; valley stretches at least five milea in length, until it is terminated, by the lofty mountain range wh'ujh divides Galway from Mayo. It was in this district that the tragedy was hatched, To commence the tale from the beginning, In bo far as it is yet made known, I may state that one person has now; sworn to hearing that four men say some little time ago that " Joyce was a bad one and must be done away with?' I have 1 learnt the names and addresses of all the persons I am now alluding to, but as I have been requested, for reasons which must be apparent to all, not to mention them, I refrain from doing bo. And now comes the striking and extraordinary, phase of'.the case,no less important in its results, than as showing what tremendous destinies are sometimes dependent on the veriest trifles. Cappannacreeha,it is of 'cqiii'se htideratqodi'is at the opposite end of the valley to Maamtrassna, the distance being aboat four miles. Here, then, a farmer; of rather a more comfortable class than his neighbors, was awakened about midnight on Thursday, by the barking of a dog. Hfl 'got.-up to see .what was the matter, and . looking.out saw, six men approaching his house. He slipped put into a email potato field in front of the house, where he. lay down among the stalks, and took a careful survey as they, passed unsuspecting any suoh observation.,. To use: his, own language afterwards,hell'-'knew there, was some bad work going ;on,V and fearing lest his brother's house, which is situated rather less than a quarter, of a:mile from his own, somewhat in tho direction in ■which the mon ; were going, was their destination,- he ■ followed; < them; They passed on, however; and lie then alarmed his bother.Saving bee'ri 'joined by his brother and hjis lonj- the 'three 'continued to follow the six keeping "at a 'distance of 100 yards, and .crpuching behind ditches orwalls, or any other coyer they, could find,' The party evidently never I dreamt that they were in view of others, i and went straight up to a house, which' they entered. The three men crept into the garden of the Sams' house, and after waiting for a little time saw ten more come out, the place : being no doubt a rendezvous. The ten then directed their steps across the .field toward Mamtraisna. They. did.i; not keep on the road, and getting nearer to the scene which was soon be so red with their dreadful work, they made constant; detours round such houses as oamo in their way/ The little party of three kept them in sight all the time, and now and then takings short cut, were able tp plant themselves at some covert'spot in immediate proximity to the men as they passed, In one instance only two and a-half yards separated the two parties.:. On getting nearer to Joyce's abode, the trackers made ■• their, usual detour, and then themselves, hastening by a short cut over a bog,'got $ the house first, and lay concealed in some chort bushes, jwhioh grew at: the bottom oftha .cabbage garden. Again they saw the ton men corns up and pass. They then-sawf'thom'!enter the the house,' and'in few minutes the clear ring of ..the w revolver broke upon the quiet.night air! ancceeded by the hideous whacking sound of the'bludgeons as they were ÜBed'.with;,suoh")?rfifio force on the bodieslof |th'e.wetohed'inmatea, Cries of most fearful agony' and despair succeeded,:'and unable;.to listen'to.more, and incapable of coping,nnarmed;with ten men prepared for anything, the throe ob'flervers slid potly'away f rom the'-garden and ran with all the ■ speed that fear and 'horror could lend to; their foet;'All tho parties engaged in the massacre Were long and intimately.; known 'to'.thisrh.' The night; was.olear, and their.identification of. the prisoners''is'cornpiete'. and unimpoachable. The police have! 'besides. obtained full and; iample|,corroboration of. it frorn :these witnesses.,,, The ..nattu'e, of "the later I oanj only' infer, as.' it-.is'.thouoht well to be.veiy re'tio'ent regaMngjit for, the present. 1 : The;four, yyitnessesjare at prtsent iinder protection 'abGq'ngi- though if the professions .of tble peopled the distriot are tojbe believed they would run no risk ■ponnjtain homifcf : Ai ; icW«i'eveT:Ul»jrheard that.

witnesses were forthcb.minjri^itheyonme sure, diaplayed'the liveliest aattafaotlod, and-deolated that; .ton :seized|tibriest' people in' peace;oltJß^oaght for thafpraaeht the wittjeaaes .qWoJild be kept away frpm'the dißtrioyS? J

ALt BOUND THEITORU). v ; . Joseph Aurioli a priest, the <eiuro of Nohedes, in the Pyrenees Orientates, has been convioted of poisoning two of his lady parishioners, from whom he had;obtained wills in his favour. He hastened v to realise considerable sum from their eatftte and Sent BQOOfr to a aohoolmistfeßß, with whom he, intended to elope. The jury gave him extenuating oiroumstances'only 1 from unwillingness to.send a priest to the guillotine, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life;

One in "every'fifty-six persons: in. tin United States is a Sunday achool teacher. The Gospel.isnow regularly preached at Honolulu, S.I, in Hawaiian; Chinese, and English.' ;.-;.,.'■':.■;-.. v ■■,■■• Iron deposits on - the coast of Tunis are expected to give a yield of' betweon 100,000 and 150,000.t0ns a year. : . . It is stated that the coffers of the Italian. State now contains 550,000,000. of/lire laid up towards the abolition of tho forced paper currency. One of the largest orders for bridge building steel is that issued for the new bridge over the Frith of Forth, Scotland. It calls for 45,000 tons of steel. ■•■■ Within tho last six months a leneth of about 820 yards of tho Severn (England) tunnel has been completed, and a further length of 480.yards has been arched. At this rate the tunnel will very soon be finished. '" : ' : '

A petroleum pipeline, constructed froth i the Gonban oil territory over the Caucasus Mountains toNovoroszisk Harbour, on the Black Sea Coast, was opened on May 27. This line of pipe, which is 105nriles long, can deliver every day not less than ■1,000,0001b of petroleum. ':. ; Doubts continue to be thrown out on the published accounts of the cause of General Scubeloffs death, .The Mobcow correspondent of the Daily Teleeraph says the official details are absolutely false. There is one suggestion of foul play. Another is that it is possible ho may have died in a drunken quarrel..:..".' The Russian robber Goresko having been sentenced at Ismail to imprisonment for lifo, the Eussian womon crowded about him with tears and sympathy, and even stripped off their jewels and gave them to the captive assassin as he was leaving the oourt room. In the six months ended June 30 there were granted in New York city permits for 1365 new straotures, estimated to cost £5,209,741, and for 1998 alterations of buildings, estimated to cost £549,506 —in all, £5,759,741 to be expended on dwellings and Warehouses. Socialism is discouraged in Bohemia. Fourteen socialists were triad in August in Prague—the fonrth of such trials this year, They were principally quarrymeo from Kladno. They were accused of belonging to secret sooiotiea, of spreading the journal-of the party, the Delnioko Listy, and of stirring up strikes. The sentences varied from fines to: two years' imprisonmont. Excavations in the Roman Forum, which are still going forward, are ejpected ere long to bring to light the ancient tribune from which the oratorß addressed the people. Frenjnents of friezes and columns that have recently been found in the Forum have been set up on brick pedestals as fast as they came tp light. Pieces of the old pavomont have been fastened togothor by means of Vonetian mosiao cemont,

The Hungarian Village of Folylalu hus been destroyed by fire, during a hurricane which lasted for 18 hours. Eight children, belonging to six peasant families who were out in the fields harvesting, were burned to death in thejv homes. There are eighteen treaty ports in China where foreigners are permitted to reside. According to the North China Daily News, the native population at these potts is 5,225,000, and only 4783 are foreigners. Of the latter only about 600 are Americans.'

During last season it is stated that seven billion feet of timber were cut in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Tho quantity of pino timber now standing in these three states acooraing to the latest reports is 81,500,GOQ,Q(X)ft. The supply at the present rate of destruction will not last move than 1-2 yoavs. King Cotewayo and his chiefs considered British beef pretty fair, but not as good asthatof Zululand. One morning while in London fourteen pounds had been prepared for the captive mnnnroh's breakfast and that of his three chiefs. The latter ate thirteen pound/) before Oetewayo made his appearance,'ao a now supply had to be cooked.

In many parts of Germany the crops have recently suffered incalculable injury from an incessant fall of roin during ten successive days. There are sections in which the harvest has been completely ruined, grain crops which ought by this time to be harvested lying in a rotten condition upon the fields. Before this rain everything had promised well for the German crops. Not for seventy years bad (he outlook boen more favourable

Numerous financial projects are being agitated in Japan. There are the new Shipping Company, with 'a capital of £600,000, and many similar ones, but the principal one—although not In the nature of trade-is that of a National Religious Association of Japan, with a capital of £3,000,000. _ What the revenue of this Association is to be, or whether any dividend is to be paid, are points which have not been mentioned in the programme of the pejieme, and for which reason the. object is ij'm jikejy to be carried toin! effect. !

Three thousand five hundred churches have been built in (he United States during the past fifteen years, and more than one for every day in the year during the last twelve months,

Tho adotnomcnt of doga in Paria gives employment to nearly 1900 people, who earn between £223,000 to £300,000. Every variety of dog has its own proper toilet, besides its own special toilet case, containing the brushes, combs, Bponges, and other ncoessities for washing snd dressing,

the French have voted the Imndiomo araeunt of £IB,OOO for the observation of the next transit of Venus, . ■■<

There _is a Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Spain comprising upwards <of twenty churohes of missions, In the Ural district there has been dis, covered .a nugget ot gold weighing 441b, said to be the largest ever found in Kus'sia. An exchange says that Profesaer Schiff, theFlorentineviviseotor, has used up more than fourteen thousand dogs in his ex-, pe'rimentß,

Upwards of 40QQ native Americans are said tp: habituated to opium smokfng. Stringent laws are passed to prohibit the use of the drug, with little success, In Nevada imprisonment has been tried on the vendors, but {he sale is continually on the increase;

v. An amusing hoay was lately perpetrated on the managers of a church bazaar in 'Sheffield,' -An offer of a horse and trap wasY tendered and thankfully, accepted. OneVf the directors, who had been duly advised by telegraph, met the train by whicrjthe costly gift ..was'expected,' and received aolothea horseauda mousetrap.

vTbeileetrio.light is making muohrhf peii in the leading manufactories of;t. north ofEagknd; One branch of t»« ; after mother is adopting it, and it w no* being dbnsidered almost a necessity » steel .nil millß,. en(?inee«V ahopi, pl«t« t milliy&o.V '■:"■%■"■■■ : -\S^---An Accord ington paper fWiouideßmtionlntheborialgroundPla. ohriroh at Oawaldtwistle. It etate?sat nofewer than ten bodies have beori.Vre- , moved, by the sexton in ordw to make room for a new vault, and thatnnauthor- . ;- ity from the Home Seotetßtyvwaa;^ obtained. T, i''^ y The'preieneeofacat irisiao the organ serionily interfered with the musical portion of the service at St. Matthew's Cburoh, Sheffield, recently. The animal had taken up its position in the "great organ," and a lighted .matoh had ..to; she applied to its tail before it vrj\/?qair. At a bullfight in Nimelaknce'," the visitors, deeming that the beaSTOißplayed .' alack of fetooity, protested againat the poorness of ; the exhibition by hurling' their chain down from the prallenes. Finally they est Ere to the properties, and committed damages to the amount of J6200.

The statement that grain absorbs enough moisture on a sea voyage to pay the freight charges hae been to some extent confirmed by experiments made at the Oalifornian Agricultural College. Yartouu kinds of grain were placed in a moist atmosphere, and the. increase-in weight was noted. The greatest increase was ob- t served during the first twenty-four hours. Already, Bince .Taur .1, nearly 6000 miles of new railways have been built in the United States. During the corresponding period last year 8459 miles had been constructed.

In a country tovjuhip (writes" Jileles, in the Anßtralasian) the only ■; resident ministers were the Presbyterian and the Weßleyan. A rigid old Presbyterian on one occasion sent for the latter to spiritually console his daughter, who wag dangerously ill. The call was readily rejponded to, and, after a conversation with the patient, the visitor said although he was at all times willing to visit the sick, no matter of what creed, he mt surprised that he should hare been Bent for in preference to their own clergyman. The mother frankly explained that though " nae doot" the other would hava " done the lassie mair guid," still sh« was 10 bad with the scarlet fever "we were afraid tp risk our ain minister." . Archdeacon Dudley of Canterbury declares that nojfc to an Mngodjy ministry, pew rents had done mora mischief to the Church than anything else, The dff • culty was to find some other means qf revenue for defraying the stipends, In some parts of England the offertories had been relied on with Buoaesi, and a trial of the samo syatom might be > made here. It would be a glorious day-' for the Church when pew rents werj abolished. The new fashion of vein painting is, we are told, making head. The arm is delicately whitened, and then a blue paste is applied with a brußh over the veins. This. blue, pasty js sometimes also applied lo' the eyelids, as j.i jjj thought preferable toblack, in (jiving an appearance ot youth •• If she has not" blue bipod In her yejns,'any lady may now boast of blue yeing on '■ her body. ''\"\ A correspondent sends us the fojlowjug advertising bas become an intolerable nuisance, and the sooner ib ia put a Blop tp jtye bejfer. No matter what paper you take up, such arjtiAl.es as the : following meet your eye:—Muir jSraoa Bros, (fljf the JJastejrton v C,oacJj tUfaf}), ■have just received- direct from London ex Otskj i splendid assortment of coachbuilders' goods, espppjally carriage lamps, which they can row Be|l af pnbsjrd pf ■ prices,«=» Any? .: ■ .