MR. KEENE'S ASCOT CUP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7081, 28 July 1884, Page 6

MR. KEENE'S ASCOT CUP.

A despatch from New York, Jnly 4, saya the Ascot Gold Cup won oy James £. Keene'sFoxhsUat the Ascot races id 1882 will t>e sold by publio auoiion by Collector RobertSon in a few weeks unlsseMf. Ksena pays the dutWon the trophy, which is valued in England at".5006 dollars. The enp would come tthdar t the sectioa of the Tariff Act relating to manufacture of metals, and would haveto pay 4& per oent. ad valorem dnty, amounting to -2250 doUars. The cup was imported' over a year ago by Mr. Keene, and has since 'been -in -the-. public stores. It is bonstruoted of solid' gold, and weighs about Bibs. gold alone is worth over '1900 dollars;- : Mr. Keene Will refuse to pay the duties on the day of sale, and will probeblysead.t&ie chp back to England. Ha says that if ths Americans: cannot afford to admit free of idutyna prise won in England by an American hbrse, he can afford to send it back. ' The Herald, alluding to the above, ssys : u If there can be fauna another nation on tke lace oh the earth, savage or civilised, that sver performed snob acts of egregious stupidity as the- Ameriosn nation, •by due process of law/ let, us hasten, to learn its name and divxW lhe responsibility." The World says : "It is a-.pity. Jim Keene cannot bring into 'this ooun try. this magoiSosnt 5000 dollar Asoot Cup, won by his American raoer Foxhall, without paying an ad valorem duty of 46 per cent. It is also a pity that Keene is not as well able to pay the duties on the cup as he was a year ago."