SPORTING.

A boxing contest for £20 a-side has been arranged between Pottengell and a strauger who has just arrived from Melbourne, to come off at the Princess Theatre this night week. Mr Owen is the stakeholder. The "action" which Mr George Rutherford was going to take against the stewards of the CJ.C. for illegal-ejectment ended as I (' Sir Laiincelot");expect(rd it would,,in a " fizzle." At tho CJ.C.'s committee meeting a lotter was read from Mr Rutherford apologising for his action in entering tho CJ.C.'s enclosure on Grand National day. Tho two-year-old colt by Albany—No Name has been sold to Mr S. H. Gollar, of Napior, for 400 guineas. , Messrs Mason and Roberts, who were under engagement to work the tctajjsator at the Ashburton Steeplechase on Wednesday oad to make the iouruey from Duuedin under difficulties. Owing tn the slips at Purakanui thoy were unable to get through from Dunedin on ruesday. They reached Oamaru at 10 o clock at night, and started from there in a light express, drawn by two horses, and driven by Mr Beueen, The night w> very dark, there was aj^tog as well, so that the party had great «°uty » feeling their way along tho j'Oad, tho r lamps hist sewing to make tho darkness visible. At ne Pareora river they.had a ven•narrow escape, and only for the instinct of^ho horses causing them to jib and go suddenly back on thoir haunches, tho whole party would have been precipitated down a stoop embankment. Timaru was reached at 7.20 nevfc morning, and Messrs Mason and Roberts wero just, able to catch tho 7.30 train to Ashburton, arming on the course just in timo to fit up the totalisator for the first race, after about 44 hours continuous trav.elli«g.--Press. On the Association ground at bydney on Saturday, July 28, the Victorian Eleven beat New South Wales' representatives, under British Association rules, by 3 goals to 1.