SPORTING

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1969, 19 February 1885, Page 2

SPORTING

[BY TKLKf.'U Vl'H. — I'HKHS ISSOOI ITIftX.l Du.shmn, Tuesday. Mil KrK.vn's horses for the Dunedin Meetnit,' ;im\ed to-night. All the hones at Foilmry this morning did good nerviceable work on thu tan. There was not, however, much fjsfc work. Cutts commenced by wilding July and Wapiti for a smait gallop in company. Lady lMnma went about two mile>> at a good bat, tho inaie being taken .vli >ng first by Matanaka and afterwards by MoLou. rai.nnaand Captain Webster al-.o g,illo|ie<l <»\er about two miles. The three couples mentioned acquitted thernsehes to the entne satisfaction of the few onlookei*.. Wednesday. A lot of good work has been done on the tan at Forbnry this morning. Wapiti and •Inly in pai t clothing coveied thiee miles, going the last round at a strong pace. Until hoi sps look very fit mid mine well. T.iuo.i and Cn]>tniti Webster cnvcied a couplo of niile>> at lnediuin pace. Mmena and I'oet were each sent two miles si>p.ilately. The Auckland Cup winner looked little above himself. Adamant went a mile with Tiapper at h.ilf speed nnd was In ought home bv Cuddy at top spoed. Lady ]'>inma coveted fully four miles at a slow cant'M. The Lad and 15en li.i\e been '•eiatched for all engagements at tho nieet-

Euj \ in the centuiy a lieh Enghhhniau left liis djughteis their weight m one i)Oiui(l bank -notes. The elder got hfty one thousand two hundred pounds, thu younger fifty so\en thousand tlnce bundled and loity four pounds— the handsomest pair of piper- weights on reeoid. Somk idea of the extent to which camellias are grown for s»le near London may be gleaned from the fact that one giower alone at Hammersmith cut on one morning a shoit time back tliioc hundred ami twenty five dozen blooms, all of w Inch were disposed of in the London floiista' shops. TO RI.sTKVIV A HoliSi: KHOM Jl,Ml'lNC. — The following simple plan Ins the ussuianco of those who have tued it of being completely efficacious :— lt consists of a suicingle about the body of the hoibc, together with two short straps that pass thiough the sin angle and around each ioioleg, being buckled so that when the house stands upiight tlio strap will fall about half way to the knees. This auang'ineut, which allows the horse to walk quite freely, prevents its running as well as jumping. A similar plan is to connect the foi clegs of a horse by stiaps seonml just abo\e the knees, but those who ha\e tiled both plans pitfei the one Hiat rcfentd to. Some hoises are difficult to catch when at pasture, and this device will prove \al«.ible m such cases. Ksi'U'H) Comicts — The inhabitants of New Caledonia aie becoming seiiously alainied by the gieat number of comicts wlio have escaped fioin the penitentiaries, 01 the load pa i tics, and aic still at largo. It h admitted by the authoiitks that as many as '2\)5 arc thus roaming about the island, but the Neo Caludonien is of opinion that this i 9 merely the number of those who have escaped from the island. Ne\cr befoie, pel haps, that paper asserts, weie robberies and criminal attempts of all kinds so numerous as now, and never did the cituens of Noumea feel themsehes to be placed in a position of greater peril. Five burglaries at nijjlit took place in rapid succession, and in one inbtance a man's purse was abstracted fiom under the pillow upon winch he was sleeping. " Eveiybody is exaspeiated," it is decl.ired ; ami each as thoroughly resolved to take the law into his own hands for the time to come without waiting for the intervention of the aimed force. Each will defend himself as he best can, ami it will soon become impossible to vcutute out at night without being mibtaken for a malefactor, and receiviug a ball w hile passing through the stieetb. " When one has wild beasts to guard, one shuts them up." Ihr time forrcrnvirig lenders for ploughing on the llorotiu Kstatc has liecn cxtcndtil Mr T. G. S 4hdcs will be in liis office to-morrow, between 11 <i m. and 0 i> m , lv meet intcoding contracturs.