SPORTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1903, Page 6

SPORTING.

KLLERSLIE TRAINING NOTES. [dt TBMECiRArn — riiKsa association.] AUCKLAND, This Day. At Klleifilio this morning tho truck* wero iv tluo ordor, and good and interesting work wu» done. Treadmill was less fretful than > cblorday,. mid did tho best milo on tho tun in lmin 42soc. Francos Lovojoy run a circuit in lmin 64isoc — nearly us good. Over tho milo Putty iinished in front of ldus in lmin 56»ec. Kuino went six furlongs in lmin 174« ec, and Mutheina live furlongs in lmin ssec. Ropa easily beat Val Rosa over a circuit in lmin 59« cc. The Needle beat Mars by live lengths in lmin 57sec. Hinetaura, Molodia, and Mcnura took tho sumo time. Hinetaura finished well within herself. Staishoot easily beat ldeu, who is v bad, worker, over six furlongs iv lmin 17£ sec. Bonhcur and Nonetto wont tho same distance in lmin 20 sec, Nonetto going lamoly. On the couise proper, Golden Vein beat Stronghold and Brave Heart over six furlongs in lmin 19sec. Conclusion was in front of Numa at tho end of five furlongs, done in lmin Bh'ec. Romeo seemed more than a mutch for Wairiki, with Cup weights up, once round tho course, dono in 2min 44scc, tho sumo as Treadmill's timo on Tuesday. Dolores ran six furlongs in lmin 22isec. Silkworm, with shoos off, galloped six furlongs in lmin 17soc. ' Machine Gun uud Gladsome in luiin 174 sec, linishing at tho winning-post. Both gallops were from flying star|s. Rambler boat Wdipuna over fivo furlongs in lmin 7wc. Cygnet, Kilmarnock, and others ul&o worked. Tho weather is fine. Betting is little changed*. Twelve starters are expected for the Cup. The Guossor and Pure Silver havo been scratched for all engagements at tho Lower Valloy Jockey Club's meeting.

Sir Joseph Ward hns instituted proceedings against tho Wnipawa Mail and the Eketahuna Express for alleged libel in statements mado by thorn in connection .with tho much-tiuked-of totara concesHions. Tho Civil Service and teachers' examinations will bo hold on 6th January. .Tho total entries for tho colony aro: — Teachers: Class D, 394; Class E, 355. Civil Sorvico : Junior, 533 ; Senior, 140. 1 Mr. G. F. Naylor, who is leaving Nelson to tako up tho appointment of organist at Iho Napier Cathedral, was mado two presentations on tho eve of liis departure— one from his pupils, tho other from tho choristers nt tbo Nelson Cathedral. Sir A. J. Cadman and Messrs. Berry and King, who are connected with the company engaged in tho endeavour to turn to practical account tho iron deposits at Para Para, havo gono to Collingwood. Mrs. B. 'Raw-lings, »Svho arrived in Nelson in 1842 in tho Sir Charles Forbes with hor parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Humphreys, died last week. Sho wan married il short aimo beforo tho Wairnu massaoro, and soon after wont to Chili with her husband, Mr. Stone, but in !o» than two years waa left to mourn hi* loss, and after about eleven years returned to Nelson, whoro sho married Mr. Benjamin Rawlingn. Mr. Justice Denniston said in tho Christchurch Court (report* tho Star) that, although he could not nsKUtno that a man who ciuno from. Australia wan a criminal, there had lately been a great deal to suggest that a, raun coming over here was of bad character. Tho funeral of tho lat« Sister Euphra«ia, of St. Mury's Convont, took place thia morning. Amongst thoso who attended wero "Archdeacon Dovoy, Very Rev. Father Lewis, nnd, Rev. Fathers Holley, O'Shoa, Kimbell, and Huuult. Members 'of the Hibernian Society acted as pallbearers. Service in the Sacred Heart Church,' Hill-stroet, was conducted by the Ilov. Fathor Holloy, who also officiated nt the gravceide in the Karori Cemetery Mr. Georgo Witty, M.H.R., has received advice from tho Land** and Httrvoy Department referring to a question placed upon the Order Paper by him an far back us Bth duly, with regard to cemetery trustees being allowed to keep thoir accounts in Post Office Savings Banks. The minister states that arrangements are being made in that direction, and that on Order-in-Council is being prepared to give power to cemttery ttuatees to Jxeop their account* at Post Office Savings Banks. There wa« lying on tho deck of the Hinemoa yc&tcrdoy (says the Timnrn Herald) a curio in tho shapo of a fragment of the wreck of a vessel named tho Endoavour, which was wrecked in Duaky Sound in 1795, or over 100 years ago. Tho remains of the vessel are under water, nnd the fragment in question was fished up by Air. Hooper, chiof officer. Ib is the remains of four stout beams of oak, which had formed a framing about 2sft square. The wood hn» been largely eaten away from the outside by mnrino weovils. Apparently this was done long ago, and the process fhon stopped, aa tho present ouUido of tho timbor is in part slightly covered with calcareous organisms, or ia so saturated with iron rust ac to bo uneatable, and nearly as hard aa iron. Thick iron bolts held the timbor together, and whore, these aro .exposed the metal ia greatly rusted away. Prequent applications have been made to tho Govornment to try and obtain a service direct to tho West Coast port« of tho United Kingdom. With that object in view Cabinet has decided to inyito applications in order to see whether it is possiblo to provide mich a sorvico as has been nsk'cd. The advertisement will b» found in out columns to-drvy. A team of riflemen from tho Wellington Naval* meets the Uppsr Hutt Riflo Club on tho hitter's range on Boxing Day. Tho Chriatmoa edition of tho Cantorbury Times contains ' eighty-eight pages, including an excellent pictorial supplement depicting scenes on tho West Uoost of tho South Island. The frontispieco makes a novel Ohrißlmna card " Wishing you a Bully Chrirtlmas," and consists ol a reproduction of a, capital photograph In which a contented old bull-dog with a pipe in vis mouth and a bottle and gloss by his aide, is the central Ugurc. The letterpress is seasonable, and thero are neveral complete Christmas stories and other reading matter. Tho number is sold at the usual price. Messrs. W. 11. Morrah and Co. will soil at thoir rooms, Willis-stroot, on Monday at 2.30 o'clock boots, olioos, and slipper*, and on.Tuosday furniture and sundries. Particulars wJI bo found olsewhoro. Tho s.s. Duchess will run excursions to D*y's Bay to-morrow at 10.15 n.m. nnd 2.30 p.m. Tho Bavarian Band will play on tho lawn. Full timo-toblo appears in nnothor column.