SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7384, 10 February 1902, Page 3

SPORTING.

The Egmont Bacing Club have decided to have a Hack Sires' Produce Stakes in 1903. Horsebreeders will gain fuller particulars in reference to advertisement.

A bottle containing a note stating that the Monowai waß disabled and drifting in an easterly direction at the rate of 30 or 40 mileß a day, was picked up by Mr D. Dennehy on Nine Mile Beach, eight miles south of Cape Pjulwind, and handed to Mr Dalsleish. The bottle had beeu thrown overboard on the occasion of the recent breakdown.

At 5 meeting of the Thames Miners' Union, it was decided to approve of the action of President Michael O'Keefe in aßkinß ior the removal of Judge Cooper, President of the Arbitration Court. When before the Minister of Mines, O'Keefe Btatei that the miners had no confidence in Jodge Cooper, and made aspersions on his want of fairness, alleging that Judge Cooper was influenced by the employers' Bide The executive declined to sanction a requisition from the Waibi branch for crants of £50 each to the leaders before the Court, as these men drew a guinea per day In conclusion, O'Keefe resigned his position as president. The meeting lasted twelve hours.

The Agricultural Department recently Bent forms to secretaries of Fruitgrowers' Associations and others, with a request that th9T be filled up and returned promptly, to enable the publication of a report on the conditions and prospects of the fruit crops during the first week of each mouth, thus affording a considerable amount of useful information. For February the replies were not numerous. Among them were the following :— Normanby (Horticultural Society) : Appleß, good ; gooseberries, poor ; peaches, poor ; pears, good ; plums, good ; plums (Japanese), good ; tomatoes, late, owing to cold winds. General remarks : Minaha and blackbirds, especially the latter, have beoome a great peßt of fruit of all kinds. Hawera (Horticultural Society): Apples, heavy ; aprioots, poor ; blackberries, heavy ; Cape gooseberries, poor ; red currants, heavy; blackcurrants, poor; figs, poor; gooseberries, heavy; grapes (indoor), heavy; lemons, poor; loquats, poor; medlars, heavy ; mulberries, heavy ; nectarines, poor; peaches, poor; passionfruit, heavy; pears, heavy; plums, good; plums (Japanese), heavy; quinces, poor; raspberries, heavy; Btrawberries, poor, tomatoeß, poor. General remarks : Leech; mildew, and black-spot very prevalent in all orchards not attended to. Boot-fungus is also troublesome with the bush settlers. Valuable dairy farm to let. Seotion within Hawera drainage area required. Claims against the estate of the late Mr G. H. Wilson must be sent to Messrs Earl and Campbell, solicitors, Auckland. Messrs W. Groat and Co., of the Premier Store, Kaponga, announce a clearing sale.

ALLAYS THE PAIN.

Charlotte A. Mackay, Queen street, Mas* terton, says :—" For n?ore than three years I had Buffered severely from sharp pains in my arm, shoulder and spine, so that it was almost impossible for me to obtain any deep. Seeing Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised, I obtained a bottle at Mr Eaton's chemist Ehop. By following the directions -I had the Pain Balm well rubbed on to the affected parts— and almost immediately I experienced relief. After several applications, the pain was so allayed that I was to obtain my regnlar Bleep and perform my household duties. I consider it ft wonderful medoine, and think bo much of it that I will never be without a bottle m my home." Chamberlain's Pain Balm is on sale at Hawera General Store,— Advt..