SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOLF.

In the Interprovinoial Ladies’ Golf Match at Christchurch yesterday, Canterbury beat Otago by 11 holes, the scores being 15 to 4. The players were : Christchurch—Mrs Wilder, Mrs Vernon, Miss Cowlishaw, Miss Boyle, Mrs Ogle, Miss L. Bowen. Otago— Miss K. Rattray, Mrs Melland, Mrs Ogston, Miss Begg, Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Woodhouse. Next week’s fixtures are: Ladies’ Golf Championship of New Zealand on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings; Handicap Match on Wednesday; Bogey Handicap competition on Friday, Inter-club matches—Dunedin v. Timaru and Christchurch v. Wellington on Saturday.

Owners are reminded that entries for all events for the D.J.C. Hunt Club meeting are due this evening.

The Rev. Mr Smellie, of Wyndham, has received an address signed by thirteen church members, representing 379 members and adherents, expressive of confidence in him and of sympathy in the painful circumstances in which he is now placed. What is claimed to be the moat powerful locomotive in the world has just been completed at At a trial trip a speed of forty-six miles an hour was attained with a load of eighty trucks, each containing a dead weight-of twelve tons.

A young maid-skyant of Caudd, a mall town near Angers, in France, in trying to get rid of a fishbone which bad stuck in her throat, swallowed a teaspoon, and in spite of the efforts of the doctor who was called the spoon remains in her body. “A stitoli in time saves nine,” and Conquest’s Cough Cordial, taken promptly for coughs and colds, will save many fils, and possibly life,— lAdvt.J