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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The population of Great Britain is increasing at the rate of 1,000 a day. It is rumored that Prince Ferdinand has insured his life for 2,000,000 florins. The electric light is now being used in the Scotch fisheries with great success. It is a common thing for women to e irrv hods and mix iiiurur in Vienna, Aii-iiia. There was an increased area of 70,!)S8 acres under cultivation in Ireland last year. Tin; German Government is receiving petitions asking for a raising of the corn duties. The head of the Sultan’s harem is now a Christian woman, beautiful, cultivated, and a Spaniard, Mr. Gladstone has agreed to drive the first pile of a Cheshire Railroad's bridge acro.-s the river Dee. Editor Kal kofis remains were carried twenty miles out of Moscow for interment by his admirers. J Gould is the proprietor of the largest watering-place in the world. His office.— Springfield Mirror. The Loudon Referee thus refers to the running for which Lord Ailesbnry has suffered the pains and penalties ;—The chief event, as far as my observation want, was Martin’s pscuhar exhibition in the Harewood Plate. For this Lml Ailesbnry’s Everitt, winner of the Wokingham Stakes, was favorite in a big field—and a hot favorite too—till the horses went to the post. Then bookmakers became extremely anxious to lay against Kveritt, and naturally people began to ask what was the matter with him. The publics .suspicion was aroused before the start. A very great proportion of the body just mentioned thought that their suspicions avert- confirmed by the style in which Everitt and Martin finished. To the nnitiated it appeared that Lord Ailesbnry’s horse could not possibly lose after be was sent after Whittington, a turned loose light weight; bit experts found many good reasons to explain Evcritt’s scoring only halt a win—that is to say, making a do id heat with Whittington. After the race the Stewards requested Lord A., Martin, and others concerned to appear before them and explain affairs as read by the result of the dead heat decider winch Everitt won with Martin up. If they had delivered a rightnut verdict, I would have published what I have written about the jockey and the race. As thev referred the case to the Stewards of the. Jockey t'lob, and so left the matter snh pi-fice, I will respect a law altogether unwritten as regards racing, and not yet print what I think. My opinion on the matter is a strong one, and for fear that the strength may waste if I wait till the superior court delivers its verdict, 1 have written for future use what 1 think fit to say. After the second trial I will let Referee readers know what this was, why 1 formed it, and why such a charge did not come to me as a surprise under any circumstances. As to the latter, I may say that, whether Martin cstablishoi his innocence before the stewards of the Jockey Club or fails to do so, there is no doubt that he has for a long while been a very unpopular jockey with a large section of racing men. The in-and-out form shown by horses belonging to a former employer was notorious, and it is quite possible that the lad is now being made to suffer for old inconsistencies for which he was not re-spon-ible personally. The old grudges rankle, and lead people to be suspicious whore, with other jockeys, they would ba ready to accept any plausible explanation.