SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume I, Issue 66, 20 March 1880, Page 3

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

By Spcci.il Wire.

The Governor on the New Zealand Tcrf,

The Stewards of the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club on Tuesday entertained Has Excellency, the Governor, and Lady Robinson at a luncheon in the luncheon room of the new grand stand at Hastings. After the luncheon Mr Tammer proposed the health of His Excellency and Lady Robin, and in so doing referred to the Governor’s past connection with the turf. He expressed the hope that he would soon run horses in New Zealand.

His Excellency thanked the company for drinking his health and that of Lady Robinson so heartily. He could assure them nothing in New Zealand pleased him more than to see good old English sports and pastimes reproduced here and flourishing as on their native so''. Those national outdoor games constituted an important future in the formation of a sound and vigorous national character, as they all knew. He was himself fond of horsc-rJicing, which, properly carried out, was one of the most legitimate amusements in which men of means could indulge. It was a means of good, not only in improving the breed of race-horses, by affording an amusement which J not only men, but the : r sisters, the'r cousins, and their aunts could appreciate. It was, as had been said, the participation fine old English.' 'sport which prevented the turf degenerating into an institution for betting and gambling. He was very much pleased with racing in Hawkes Bay, but might venture a wc«i of advice;' He would say that it would probably . * *-0 the advantage of sport in Napier, if the two ciubs were to unite and become one. If they were content to bury their animosities and unite in forming one club, that club would certainly be inferior to none in New Zealand. He should like to see the two F clubs shovy the spirit of John and Joan in, the old tale. They bought a bolster, John saidjt was too hard and Joan said it was too soft, and niter quarrelling about it all day, they agreed to put the bolster between them when they went tb bed (laughter). During the night John gave a violent sneeze, when Joan immed'ately exclaimed, “ God bless you.” Did you say “God bless you?” asked John. “ Yes, I did,” replied Joan. “Then hero!goes the bolster,” responded-John as ho threw it away. V 3 _ • j;;,-', Auckland, March The following entries were . received to-night for the Autumn Meeting:—St George’s Handicap--100 sovs, IJmiles —Harry Mount, Yatapa, Xan.tippe, Ariel, Malvern, King Quail, Mata, Longlands, Libeller, Hippo, Grand Duohess, Yampire, , - Lara; Sauntered Resolution, Laertes,. Numa, \j Soukar, My Dream, Loch Lomond. Otawa Handicap, steeplechaseJlOOsovs.J JmfleS'—Tpung Sledmere, Serenader, ‘ Sportsman,' 'Eversleigh, Billyi Baron, Jonathan Wild, Hard .Times, Grey Momus, Loch Lomond, Otawai, Harold. Autumn Handicap, 100 sovs, .2- miles. —Yatapa, Xantippe, * Ariel; Malvern, King Quail, Sbrcerer, Mata, L6ng : | lands, LibeUer, Piscatoriops, , Vampire* Lara, Saunterer, Resolution, Laertes, Numa,' Soukar, My Dream, Otawai. .hw iat' 11 rj'X * £.££ ■'%: