The Waterloo Cup.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 201, 27 August 1888, Page 2

The Waterloo Cup.

Dunedin, August 27. There was a good deal of excitement as Sylvia (at 2 to 1) and Bridegroom II started for the fourth round for the Cup. The former led and turned, and then let in Bridegroom who did some good work. Sylvia in making a drive at the game fell, and Bridegroom again got in and wrenched two or three times ending with a kill. Nearly everyone thought Bridegroom won, but the red flag went up in favor of the Auckland slut. There was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the decision. Sailor Boy started a strong favorite at 2 to 1, and led up to the hare by a couple of lengths frem Flora 11, ruaning strongly and working 1 his game in fine style. He quickly ran up the score and won by a few points. For the final, Sailor Boy was backed at 2 to 1. He -led up to the kare from Sylvia by three lengths, and turned twice in succession. Sylvia then got in and made her only score with a kill, Sailor Boy thus winning the course and the stakes. His running all through -was greatly admired. There waa not much, excitement over the final, as Sailor Boy's victory was almost a foregone i conclusion. '

Th« Pall Mall Gazette says there are i a painfnl rumours afloat about Mr Archibald ' Forbes, who is in America with his wife, an ] American lady. The laßt time I saw him was in the coffee room of the London and I North- Western Hotel, at Liverpool, where be was lemoning before going on -board tba < White Star boat. Mr Forbes, who in his i prime was a fine, tall fellow, with a military bearing, was bent like on old mnn, his hair and moustache nearly white, and could not I eveu walk across the room without the aid ef a I etoufc walking stick. He is suffering from an I affection of the kidneys, contracted in his campaigning days. The London corrcspondeit of the Sydney I Morning Herald says : — Mr Chamberlain, the I onoe stern, uncompromising radioal, is beI coming quite a Jeader of society. The 1 hospitality he dispenses at his houße in I the Prince's Gardens is of the most 1 sumptuous description, and Buoh is the I formidable array of titled personages who I flock to his entertainments that his house has I been dubbed the •* Dnkeries, " and its owner I the " Lord Eigh " Chamberlain. His footI men, too, have grown so accustomed to the I widening of their master's acquaintance I amongst the upper ten, that whenever a 1 guest with whom they are not familiar ; I enters the house they immediately address I him as "my lord," so as to be on the safe ■ I side. Mr Chamberlain's booibl rise has, . I indeed, been well nigh as Remarkable as his \ I political success. When he first got into L 1 Parliament, and wai known as a rich, r pushing Radical, society, thinking that like ? 1 most rich Radicals he would make frantic 3 I efforts to gain admission within, its sacred i portals, resolfed to sternly snub him. But he r I fairly astonished society by pursuing the 3 even tenor of his way just as if society had no . I existence. The " smart people," finding that c I he made no attempt to court their notice, g I were inclined to think he must be somebody ,1 1 extraordinary, and began to take him up. Mr I Chamberlain, though he had no objection to being taken up, nevertheless astutely 0 I displayed no over-eagerneßß on this soore, ,f and by this means additionally increased i. I his value in the eyes of the fashionis I able world. When, thanks to the friendship >_ of Sir Charles Dilke, a place was found for r e him in Mr Gladstone's 18801885 Cabinet, he >h had so far established his position that he D f oould not be overlooked ; and when, two years a ago, he quitted Mr Gladstone's Bide and threw ,t. in his lot with Lord Hartington, his conquest 3. of society wa« complete. He at onoe beoame ag the darling of the duchess, and the pet of the m aristocracy, and now he is. socially speaking, ar as influential as any man in London.