Sporting.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 40, 19 May 1869, Page 4

Sporting.

ACCEPTANCES rou THE THAMES ANNUAL EACES. The Maiden Plate : Mr. Henry Redwood's eh f Peeress, 3 yrs ; Mr. Eobert Farmer's eh f Moonbeam, 4 yrs. The Flying Stakes: Mr. Henry Redwood's eh f Misfortune, 3 yrs ; Mr. W. L. Robson's eh g New Zealander, aged ; Mr. N. S. Walker's b m Slander, 5 yrs ; Mr. H. H. Stafford's eh f Lacenfeed, 3 yrs. The Galatea Cup (Handicap) : Kaiser, 3 yrs, 9st 41bs ; Magenta, 5 yrs, 9st ; Numa, -aged, Bst 81bs ; Slander, 5 yrs, Bst 31bs j Yattarina, 3 yrs, Sst j Peeress, 3 yrs, 7st 131bs. The Hurdle Race : Mr. O. M'Gee's eh g Harkaway, aged ; Mr. Griffith's g g Echo, ;aged ; Mr. Clarke's b g Warwick, 5 yrs ,• Mr. Woolley's b g King Dan, aged; Mr. Robson's eh g New Zealandcr, aged. The Thames Plate (Handicap) : Kaiser, 3 yrs, 9st 61b ; Magenta, 5 yrs, 9sfc 31b ; Slauder, 5 yrs Bst 81b ; Yattarina, 3 yrs, Bst 21b j Peeress, 3 yrs Bst lib ; Misfortune, 3 yrs, 7st 91b. The Graham's Town Plate : Mr. Waltera's r h Orlando, 6 yrs ; Mr. N. S. Walker's b m Slander, 5 yrs ; Mr. H. H. Stafford's eh f Lacenfeed, 3 yrs ; Mr. 11. Redwood's eh f Misfortune, 3 yrs ; Mr. W. A. Hunt's g c Kaiser, 3 yrs. The Ladies' Purse : Mr. W. A. Hunt's g c Kaiser, 3 yrs ; Mr. Clarke's g Warwick, 5 yrs ; Mr. N. S. Walker's b m Slander, 5 yra; Mr, Walter's b f Yattarina, 2 yrs.

A Tieesome Joke. — A bet made by a wag of Berlin on New Year's Day attracted crowds to one of the principal streets of the capital. In this street there is a hairdresser's shop, and the author of the bofc had undertaken to sit for four hours, without moviug, in the place of the was figure in the window. At three in the afternoon he appeared at his post, dressed in a white sheet and with a huge wig on his head, surmounted by a fez cap. Every effort was made by the bystanders to make him chow some sign of life. Street boys were tempted by the promise of large rewards to make their most ridiculous grimaces, and address him in all sorts of funny speeches ; but all in vain. He remained immovable until the clock struck seven, when ho rose, bowed gravely to the assembled crowd, and retired into the shop. Breakfast. — A Successful Experiment. — The Civil Service Gazette has tho followiug interesting remarks : — " There are very few simple articles of food which can boast so many valuable and important dietary properties as cocoa. While acting on the nerves as a gentle stimulant, it provides the body with some of the purest elements of nutrition, and at the same time corrects and invigorates the action of the digestive organs. These beneficial effects depend in a great measure upon the manner of its preparation, but of late years such close attention has been given to the growth and treatment of cocoa, that there is no difficulty in securing it with every useful quality fully developed. The singular sucoesss which Mr. Epps attained by his homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. Par and wide the reputation of Epps's Cocoa has spread by the simple force of its own extraordinary merits. Medical men of all shades of opinion have agreed in recommending it as the safest and most beneficial article of diet for persons of weak constitutions. This superiority of a particular mode of preparation over all others is a remarkable proof of the great results to bo obtained from little causes. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected coeoii, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables wiih a delicately -flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It ia by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attnek wherever Ihcvo is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a propcrlyuoumhed iranae." 218