Wellington Steeplechase Meeting.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2034, 21 July 1885, Page 2

Wellington Steeplechase Meeting.

\l\\ rhLhCHVPH. -l'Khv, VssOCIATION.] WKi.MM.rov, Saturday. The hi-t Steeplechase Meeting of the Wellington K.icni<r Club t< ok place today :— Tkiu Smmcwsi: of SCsovs. Mr ]>oiinctt\ F.mgli-a-Uallagli, 10s.t l->lbs 1 Mi IJiUcoH"-, Robbie, %t 2 Hludi.k Hwdh vi% of lOOsovs. Mr Fulton "a J<liubu>, 10^t Slbs ... 1 Mr H. Pipet\ Ravenswood, 12>t 21bs 2 Colonol Fr.iM>i\ 10->t 51bs ... 9 Tlk> Loch, H\n*dic\p of 30vwji. was won bv I'rofox^or's Xpatitoa. Six othera started. J )i\ id end, £5 2s. WfI.F,[.\(.TO.V SrKBI'LKCIIASK 01 loOsOVi. Mr I )i>nnett'-, Fanph-.v-B.vlliffh, 10nt 41bs 1 Mr McCoMMhient, 10-t 121bs . . 2 Mr Fulton'^ p:rebn>, !Nt lOlbs .. 3

At a free ice-water tank in New York o\er twehe hundred pjuiutaof ice is used daily. A " svsihy 1 ' gusher, iti telling where '-he was going for the summer, Baid : "I'm goiny to Kastboume, and I'm going to take my maid, my muse, my twodogn, my children, and— and, oh yes, my husband."' Two l)i others of the name of Lawes on creating a distm banco at the Dublin Thcatri' were c.illcd to order by the cele« bratcd Felix McCarthy, who was in the same box. One of them, presenting his card, said, "You shall heai fiom us— our name is Lav.es." " Lawes, is it ! " quoth Felix ; " then I'll give you an addition to your name," and, exerting his well-known strength, he handed them both out of the bo\, "Now, by the powers, yon're both outlaws ! " A SivatTLAR incident has occured in connection with the law now apparently i in torce throughout all the Colonies proi hihiting the importation of dogs. An order has been sent Home through the | Emigration department of New Zealand for 12 experienced shepherds from Scotland. But these primitive and simple* minded men are so attached to their ( canine companions that they positively refuse to be parted, and the greatest difficulty will be found m obtaining the best class of sliepheids to accept the tempting offer. No doubt it is of prime importance to keep the Colony foi ever free from hydrophobia, but surely an exception might be made in the case of shepherd*' dogs, or some provision applied to their case by which this parting might be avoided. — Home correspondent to the Lyttelton Times. Tiil following is given as an expression of opinion by a. Hindoo :— ln common with most natives, he thought all Englishmen a trifle mad. Had he npjt^ften seen them rushing about cricket fielJfs^-to pick up balls when there were any num.* ber of servants sitting about who might do it for them ? Did they not jump up from dinner and get on to horses and ride away like mad if they heard there wm something or other to shoot, and leave their dinners to get cold, and perhaps not come back all night ? Instead of eating their meals at home, did they not bare their food carried up to the tops of mountains and bottoms of valleys, and eat " idiots' dinneis " there, as the native! call picnics ? Were they not in the habit of dressing up in ridiculous clothes, and dancing at "idiots' dances" — for such the Hindoos call a fancy dress ball ? Would any sane person go riding after pigs with speais, bteaking their collarbones and getting horses killed, when they might easily shoot the pigs if they liked ? Take this present master at the present moment. Here was he in an excellent position under Government, and tiffin waiting for him, flying like a maniac along the river bank. Ihe Kinktriroa Road Hoard invites tenders for the erection of a bridge over the Whanfamanrc creek, ncarTaupm. Ratepayers in the Newcastle Road District are notified that all rates must be paid forthwith. Hk.iiww Roiiiiicnv Auiosr, to sell tfcc poisonous, drunken, purcing stuff as medicine to hanest men, innocent women, and harmless children to weaken «md destroy their systems and health, when pure harmless Hop Hitters can be had that cures alway and continually at a trifling cost. Ask druggets or phj sicunj. Read.