SPORTING. Plumpton Park Jockey Club.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2243, 23 November 1886, Page 3

SPORTING. Plumpton Park Jockey Club.

Thf Spring Meeting under the auspices of this club was held on Saturday at the Onehunga racecourse. Tlie weather was all that could be desired, but the attendance was not large. The arrangements wore eminently satisfactory, The results were as follows : — Maiden Trot, of 15*ovs. Two miles. Mr William*' Ladybird 1 Mr Sandall's Darkie 2 Mr Fergusons Janot . 3 Maiden Plate, of l."»sovs. Weight forage. One mile. Messrs R. and R. Duder's Lionel ... 1 Mr McKinnon's Brown Rose 2 Mr Bruces Mayflower 3 Luna, Violet, May Queen and Cannon also ran. Dnidend, £0 3s. Pj.umpton Park Cup, of 50sovs ; second horse to receive lOsovs. out of stakes. One mile and a h.ilf. Mr J. All will's Victoria, Bst. 121b, (Pearson) . 1 Mr J. E. Thorpe's The Cat, 6st. 12lb. (Thorpe) 2 Mr W. K. Carter's Rewi, 7st. 12lb (Anner) 3 Ridatnes and Lioness also ran. Dividend, £1 13s. Handicip Hurdle Race, of 30sovs. Second horse to receive Ssovq. out of stakes. Two miles. Over eight flights of hurdles. Messrs R. andß. Duder's Belle 1 Messrs Lyons and Blaikies Pipi ... 2 Mr T. Stinson's Chevalier 3 Mr J. Cochranes Warrior also ran. Uividond. £1 15 a. Pony Race of lOaovs. Three-quarters mile. Mr T. Stinson's Little Nell 1 \[r E. G. Sandall's Sybil 2 Mr F. CUridge's Little Mary 3 Selling Stekplecjiase of 40^ovs. Winner to be sold immediately after the race for lOO3OVB. Top weight, 12st. Mr P. J. Buvton's Huntsman, 1(U 71b 1 Mr Morton's Zip, 10sl 2 Mr G. Hope's Quilp, list 71b .. ..3 Mr C. Edgar's Banana also ran. Dividend, £2 ss. The winner was then put up for sale by Mr E. Ley don, and bought in by the owner for £40, the price for which lie was entered. Handicap (Time) Trotting Race, of 20 soys. Second horse to save his stakes. Weight, not le^s than lOst. About three miles. Mr E. G. Sandall's blk h Darkie, 20sec. fownar) .. . .. .. ... 1 Mr R, Millin'.s blk vi Black 13ess, 30sec. (owner) 2 Mr Wm. Carrs q in Polly, scratch (owner) ... .. 3 Mr PattersonV Glengarry and Mr Hutchinsou'a Chips also ran. Janet was scratched. This trot was a very interesting one, especially as the horses had to pass the stand five times to win. Black Bess took the lead at the start, but after the first turn Darkie took command, and notwithstanding several breaks, won comfortably by eight lengths from Black Bess ; Polly, which was the favourite, bein? only able to secure third position. Dividend, £3 iU. Papatoetoe Handicap of 25sovs. One mile. Messrs Lyons and Blakie's Pipi 1 Mr Allwill's Victoria 2 Messrs R. and R. Duder's Lionel ... 3 Mr Carter's Rewi and Mr Thorpe's The Cat also ran. Dividend, £7 2s. The Maiden Trotting Race was then run (<ft, resulting in a, win for Ladybird.

Dr De Latour has been summoned at Port Chalmers for not sending his children ro school, and the Bench rejected his plea that the children were being educated at home. A Caution. — The following is taken fro'u the Lyttleton Times, and shows how necessary it is to he careful in the preparation of food, Four children in a tunily hcid p irtaken pretty freely of curd 1 * and wlvy, which hid been made in the u«ual m-jimer by the use of rennett Shortly aftet wards they wore seized wth purging and vomiting, and other synip" toms of poisoning. DrßnssUwas sent for and when he arrived found the ynungebt child, an infant, in a state of t:\mu, while another was almost a«. | seriously ill. nnd the rest completely p«o*tt,itod. Kni|uines as to the probable -•ause of t'.iio f>in}d.en illness, brought out the fact that tho ronnett which had been used was old and bad, and the milk being also probably stale the combination acted on the children's stomachs like a poison. Happily the doctor waa called in before it was too late, and was able soon to give relief to the sufferers. ExTF»*oijniN T ARy Conduct in Church, —At M'-mob^ter, lately, Miss Fanny Vaudrev, a l«c|y of Indspendet means, residing in Marshall-place, Cheetham-hill, was Dummoned at the instance of the churchwardens for violent and indecent coduct in the Church of St. Job,n {he Evans?eli?>t, Cheetham, Jt was stated that on the morning of Sunday, the 12th Sept., the defendant went to the church, at the beginning of the service, and walked up the ai^e in a yery demonstrative manner, rustling her dress in a, way that attracted general attentioq. She made a great qoi.se with her umbrella, and from time to time diving the service she rapped the front of the pew loudly with her book, She also ooughed in a peculiar manner, and when the curate was beginning to read the first le-isou she looked towards him, and deliberately putting her thumb to her nose and extending her fingers, did what Mr Cobbett, the prosecutiug solictor, said he believed was familarly called "pulling , bacon "' Next she turnpd round tq a gentleman who was sitting behind her and directed the action at him. She was spoken to by one of the wardens, and after that remained quiet. It was stated that the summons would not have been issued bad it been possible to induce the defendant to give u,p thjs kin.4 o,f Vh,in,g ; but §he had been gujlty qf similar conduct again and Again. The defendant insisted that the people insulted her in church, and that the wardens were always sitting round her. The Stipendiary : I think you are under a delusion. The Defendant ; I am, not. The stipendiary said he would adjourn the case for a month. \iiss Vaudrey vtould oertainly be fiued if she behaved in such a manner again,