A NOTED RACEHORSE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 3

A NOTED RACEHORSE

SCEPTRE SOLD REGRET EXPRESSED In'eNGLAND. &n<l N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 2, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. Lord Glanely has sold the #rent racing mure Sceptre for J&SGO to a Brazilian buyer. The mare has failed to breed in recent years. There ie eenentl regret in racing circles that Sceptre is leaving the country, as it was expected that lie? would bo buried at Danebury, where Bay Middleton is buried. <

During tho voyage from London of tho Jiner Arawn, -which arrived at Wellington, the death occurred of the infant ton, aged nine months, of a passenger, Mrs Harris, who is on her wav to Hamilton. The child succumbed to convulsions incidental to teething, and was buried at sea. Tho passengers who arrived at Wellington by tho Arawa from Loudon included several naval ratings for H.M.S. Chatham, row in port. The men woro accompanied by thoir wives and families. German exports fo-r January, 1922, exceeded import*} by 1,800,000,'000 marks, due partly to textile shipments,< chiefly of knit goods, hosiery and gloves. An ox-soldier, who had been through many battle.* and reached tho great age of 103, fell out- of a window, the balcony of which gave- wav, and was