MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 49, 28 June 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tito well-known Ynldhurst ostaf.c, which has furnished tho winners of so ninny of our principal rncos (says tho Chrislehuroh Press) lins changed lining within tlio lust few days. Thonurulnsor h Mr James Gilligan, of Wellington, who is woll-known in tho sporting worll Mr Gilligan, takes possession nt nn e.irly da'e, und intends to romovo his mcing stable to. tlio commodious hoxos i\t YaMhurst. His team i\t present consists of Danebury, Songster, Stirabout, Mufii, and Merlin, In add i lion to thoso lhi«n> will bo Fiction, tho throo*y<vir-oM colt by Traducer— -Deception and Midge l>y HI tie Hoy from Malice, purchased by Mr Gillian, at Mr Nosworthy's snlo. As a siro, tho Yaldhurst stud will Imvc tho wolUkuown Austrnlinn horso Jnvelin, of whofto fl)PpoArnnc« ronort upenks very highly. Me Gillrgan hns secured the services of Ashoroit, who is well-known on tho C\ydnoy «ido ns h most useful ami painstaking Irniimr. Though all lovors of .spor must re<rot Uio rotircmont from tho turf.',cm|)orarily it is to ho hope! of $o thuruu^l^ a sportuuu us Mi Dolutaain,

regret is in nonx- degree loxHoncd h] H facfc (hat his plnco will bo fillod b] H onihtisinstio a racing mun as Mi ligan. n an intcroxting lonturo dolivoroJ l'»l H ,'lc at Mm London Institution on t < H| lory of i lie flomestieiilion of animals H ofrssor llollfslon guvo it ns.his opiniot H| fit iriammalx were dorncslicfltod lorn H[ Tore birds ; and that of the miimmals |H X) dig wits i he first domesticated, the BB „, ti,o Mecorif!, mul the *>x fclio Ihird— it ■■ tJ (( > r wr.rf'n, that, llf first nnimal domes |V imited wasdomosticatcd as an ally of tin H mnter, tho sco nd for tho j.urposo o H ,uod, and tho third us a boast, of burden H 'houc'h oni! which wns found inoro usolui H for purposes of food when his p'two as i W honnt of burdon bud bonn supplio I by tlir H Ji.jrHo./ PiTifoHor Jlolloston said that ii H waiJTWfifiiU to conceive how man could ■ havu mado any prourros in eivilisatior ■ fill bo/bud got trained animulw to help him in Jiiintintf and currying— m that the Milimiiion and disoiplino by man of (lie predatory instinclfl of lower animals, is conceived l).y Prof<:snor as tho first step for man towardn a life higher than tho predntorv life- 1 I" other words, tho dolo« untion jf your, own most noble work to the croaturo much loss enpablothan vouraclf of any higher kind of work, i* the fa-fit atop towards Iho delil)eraieencouiMgo. ment'of your own higher habito. Ihiii ia a- prinoipio worth remembering. Wo only wish that tho d.v.sion of labor was more fmjuenlly regulated by it at highor ]«vols. In point of fnot, it is far morn often rofinlatod by horeditary customs thnn by intrinsic nnlitudcs. ThoAuoiclnnfJ Horald has 11.0 following in refoionec to iho wreck ol tho f,ooli Ari ] ._\Vo undcrstnnd she was ono of tbo fiiio.it morchnntmrn trading bojwoon London and Melbourne, but sho hid a Nome what, chequered history. About two and a half years ago she was dismasted n/f t,ho coast of /ju-ilrolin, and entered Melbourne with not a stick standing, Hhfl remained in P-rt Phillip for upwards of fiix months, until sho reeoivcd a now rig from home, ovory vessel oflho lino to which hlio belongs being providod with diipiionlo maflts, &o. Thcso wore sent on i from homo nnd fixed in Melbourne, if, ia flnid, for one half tho cont they could hiivc Iwoik procured in. tho colonies. We Nlniod ve'tordny that the colonial inaiir'jincoofflees would bo hit heavily by tho ir.Mi of Iho vessel. At that time it was imdcrtftcMlt Unit l-lm Now Boalnnrt Compnny had ft heavy line on her, but wo aro f'lrt'i fo rofthnJ ilmt, their loss was not no f<\'<\!\l as « ? ftfi anticipated, it boing £sflOO, nnd ihn Honlli Brinsh £1800, Wo telo- ! • implied to Dunedin, to aioertaln what tlio Nnlionnl and Standard had upon tho vessel, and our correspondent wplio« that neither of »,ho companies havo a risk on lior, do far n.* those in tho head ofllco know.