The Sports. (BY TELEGRAPH.) TE Awamuiu, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2127, 25 February 1886, Page 2

The Sports. (BY TELEGRAPH.) TE Awamuiu , Wednesday .

Ihe day being beautifully fine, a moat number of people av.iiled themselves of tin opportunity to take u hohd.iy, so the attendance was \eiy good. The airangt' niunts were peifect, Seigt. (Jie-hisn being: Marshall of Ceieuionies, ami t!ie events weie well contested. The hill was the point of \ .mt i^'c t<ig(>t a jjnod \ie\v of tin- spoit- and walined with spectator. A goodly numhi'i •>f ladies weie pieM-nt on the gnmnd. The hurdle race for troop horso* only, to be ndden by tioopci-s, distance <mo insle .uul .1 half, wai a veiy slow l.ice. Tht-ie weir only four ontnos, one of which «ai the old hmdlehoise R.ikau. Th"> was latlifr .1 boil-o\er, Kakau beinß expected to win, but he balked at the second last hurdle throwing his rider, Hickey, who, however, was quickly on the saddle again and, coining to the la«t hurdle almost abieast of (ir.iham, was beaten in the straight by about si\ length*. If ho had been let out between the hurdles he could ha\e won easily. The following are the events :— Tuooi- HuunLK Ru'K, I^, mile.s, over «;i\ flißht tt of hurdles, jft. (mi. high, lit prize, £3 ; 2nd, £1 ; '6n\, 10s. Mr Graham's King Edward .. ..1 Mr Hickey's Kakau 2 Mi C. Storey's Lady . 3 Mr Weathenll's AmrW 0 Handicap Foot ]Rack, 450 yard-, l-,t prize, £1 ; 2nd prize, fw. A Julian, scratch . . 1 F. Floyd, 15yds 2 Six started. RtVNiNt; Hi«H Jumi'. Open to membcia of troops only. lst. pii^e, 15-, ; 2nd. ")s. A. Bockett, sft. lin. . .1 H. Graham, . . . 2

Shoohng Match, o])cn to members of ttoop-s only. Target, (5 \2 ; bullVeye, (5 inches in diameter ; centre, 2ft. in diameter; outer, remainder of the t<u gut. Competitors diawu up at 200yd-.. lauge, to commence firing at trumpet signal, fiie two shot--, take unloaded carbiw\ run round a pole ."iOyds in rear of firing point, returning, load, tile two mote rounds, again round pole ; repeat as often a- time will permit ; time, thice uunuteb. At ti limpet hipn.il ti> cc.»-<e hung-, Anyone firing after .signal to have a centi c taken off his .score. Any position. No man to cirry ammunition. Points as twi.il, adding one for each hit. l-,t puze, tl ; 2nd, l.">s ; 3id, 10i ; two of .">-, each, (i. Kay, 215, six shots . . 1 .T. Barriball, 24, si\ shots . 2 •T. Currie. 22, siv shot 1 - . . 'A Miller, 22, six shots . . I May, 21, five shots . ."i Two minutes only weie allowed instead of three.

Bins' Foor Hack Carboy . .1 HoRhB Rack.— Oneinileontliefl.it. Open to all comers. Catch weights, lbt prize. i-3 : 2nd prize, £1. Gamecock . . .. . . 1 Harlequin ... 2 Nine started. Thkeim.kgc,i:i> Kvce.— l-,t i>iue,l(K; 2nd ])ii/e, 2-^ (id. Cm boy and McKwoxi 1 Two X.itix e^ 2

Akchidmd FoRBhS, the English war correspondent, is engaged to a ilni<g'irer of Quartermaster-General Moigs of America.

A MKiur Mi authority says that weiring hrge thick heavy boots and blue hand-knit stockings will imprcre a woman's complexion.

Victor Hitc.o. — A prodigy ere lie attained his majority, Victor Hugo was still under thirty when he was acknowledged cis the leader of the greatest literary movement of the age. During the next twenty years, comprising the prime of his middle life, he remained in comparative obscurity, and it wai only after repeated knocks at the door that he obtained admission to the Academy. The romantic movement, at no time quite cordially accepted in France, had spent itself; and Hugo found himself in an isolation from which he never really emerged. Twenty years of exile succeeded, during which most of his best work was produced ; and on his return to France in 1870, the crowd, impelled by various motives which it would take too long to analyse here, placed him upon an unapproachable pedestal, but rather as a sort of poetic politician than as a poet. For more than half a century he thus ran a course of his own, and alike in politics, philosophy, and literature, occupied a position which no one attempted — perhaps none cared — to dispute. — Spectator.