TRAINING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1241, 28 November 1882, Page 2

TRAINING NOTES.

A large number of .gentlemen interested in racing present at the Opaki course this' morning to witness tho exercise of the various horses being traiued there. The first to go was Forest King, jyhg went tjyico round tho eourse at a slow gallopj and finished} fast. He is in very good form ant} looks well. Romp followed.' §he" is' an extremely !)e'at|tiful'littlp filly..with grand quarters for qo siflull #)] .npimal, g'hp went three quarters pt a nijile" at s|oiy gallop. The Treasurer (who is jn aplpndid condition) went two mijes slow and finished very fast, Torpedo, the hurdler, was next taken twice round, finishing very "strong, About nine or ten hacks next took a spin round. This concluded the morning's work,

An artist who saw Ai>bi in Alexandria last winter draws this stetch-of his personal appearanco A tall heaw facod man, sullen, swarthy, with only a"pretty clear oye to Bofton 1 the'general harshness of expression, and a black nvmslacho to

bide a not particularly' finely carved mouth, Hii legs are as unattractive as his face, The underpinning looks 100 frail for the rest of the body. Ee is a bulky man ; not pussy or Falstaffian in girth, but a broad, thick-chested fellow, built on the lobster pattern, Take him from hia heavy bead to his spindle legs, Arabi Pasha reminds one more of a negro than the agreeable and pleasant-faced gentlemen one meets among the Arabs and Euyptiaua." According to .tho Turkish Minister at Washington, the' " name of Arabi is not to be pronounced as Arabi nor as Arabee, but as Arabi, with tho acceptron the middle syllable," .Bishop Steero has died of apoplexy He was ordained priest by itheißishop of Lincoln in 1858, and curacies in Devonshire became chaplain to Bi#J> Tozer in 1862,' He returned toEnglftiu)i|> oijljr to resume missioh wort in l'B72,"aiid t'vyo years later.Hvas consecrated Bishop of Central Africa. He edited Bishop Butler's,,works, and translated portions of thev Bible into the language of the people among whom he has labored. He was 51 years of age. Now that there is a public prosecutor in Great Britain it is not easy to withdraw from a charge after it has been once brought, At the Brentford Petty Sessions on August 12. : a youth of 16, charged with stealing a purse containing £23 10s, and" some 'memoranda,

'the property of his aunt, was sentenced to three nionth's imprisonment with hard labor dqsjjite tjie fact that thp aunt was desirous of withclraTOg tlijj charge, and objected to give evidpncS against the prisoner, '■ ~ .... Mr Diplock, coroner! for Middlesex, recently held'an inquest at the Industrial School at Felthara relative to the death of Maurice Burrow, 10 years of age, who hanged himself at the school, It appealed from the evidence tHafc on Sunday ..the deceased was punished for grueltv to p frog. ijta punishment consisted of a stoppage of his playtime and confinement in a cell alone. After being ; ia-the cell about an hour, it was fouud " that he had hanged himself from a water-pipe by means of a leather belt", The jury found a verdict of felo de'se, We direct attention, of,- farmers and station-holders to an, advertisement, in another column of 15 tons No. 7 fencing wire, at the! exceedingly low price of fig IBs per ton 'at the Miuterlmi railway ' station. ; For. further pa'fticulara, apply tb sapp findHare)'Emporium,—Abvi,