CORES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 498, 1 June 1898, Page 3

CORES.

[By "Diamond Diull.] I can bid John ■ McCpmbie farewell, but I cauuot rind it iv me to give him a, hearty one, it being- such a contradiction in terms. It goes against my heart to see a pioneer, a veteran miner, prospector, mine manager and whole man, leave the district, which he, with many another, long-since joiuedthe majority, forgotten, or '" gone down," has helpe 11 ) maku. A generation lias arisen who knows not the pioneers, and as Mac. has elected to leave the old place to which he has given the best of his life, wherever he may go he needs no assurau.ee that the old hands will wish him, with this paper, whatever is the essence of the words •'God speed you." I made up the divs. at last Saturday's Takapuna races. The beautiful uncertainty of the ultimate pecuniary results of the transactions between man and beast are here set. forth. There were sixty-nine starters in seven races, and the divs. were as follows:— Inside div. Outside, div. £ s d £■ s d Eace No. I 4 5 0 4 2 0 „ 2 14 10 18 1 i( 0 ■;' 3 21 14 0 22 3 0 '..■,[■ 4 3.9 0 314 0 „552 0 5 6 0 • „6 4 2 0 5 5 0 V ', 7 27-10. 0 38 2. 0 . Totals.... £80 3 0 £96 13 0 Consequently if any ba"Ry idiot had put a pound on every one of tho 69 starters he would have won £11 to £27. "ifcVnot the reason why—" Another little matter, where do the odd coppers go, plus the divs. ? The gentleman who "collects £38 2s of course considers it infra dig to dig down into coppers ! after handling so much superior buHiW—but, just for curiosity's sake, who rec^y does: cop those copper 3 ? While on spoiling matters it is, 1 believe, a fact that the Government of. Germany have purchased the stall l.v Carnage for 10,000 guineas. The Hi horse was bred at Sylvia Park, Auckland (now owned by our old Obinemuri friend "Jack Ealph") by the now defunct New Zealand Stud Company, and at tho dispersal of the stud in 1891 he was purchased when a foal along with his dam Mersey for 2300 guineas by Mr W. E. Wilson, of Victoria. He won some noteworthy races for the Victorian sportsman, amongst which was the V. E. C. Derby. Carnage formed one of the prizes in the St. A loan's art unibn, when Mr Wilson disposed of his stud by that means in 1895, and he was drawn by a resident. of Sydney, who re-sold him to Mr Wilson. The horse was subsequently purchased iVoin Mr Wilson by the owners of the Cobhaui Stud, and sent to England, where he served two seasons. Carnage was got by Nordeufeldt from Mersey, the dam of Car'ine, so that he claims the latter as a three-parts brother.' He should make a daisy sire.

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And stift on sporting matters. What absurd—stupid nomenclature is used by the best owners at Home. Look at the three placed mares in the Oaks last week —Duke of Portland's "A irs and Graces,'' Maple's "JN un Nicer and "Cauliflower," Nun Nicer is absolutely banal. In New Zealand we are • not much better, indeed iv some names we are beautifully worse. Look at Sairylegs for instance, —a yarn to that effect. Young lady had charge of sweep at EllersKe. ,• Haivylegs won. She couldn't find winner, but was directed to young man. whom the director believed had drawn the winner. " Beg pardon, sir, but have you,' Hairylegs ?' " Bed fire and confusion. Gentleman said he didn't—er —think so. But he'd look.

Still further am I reminded^ while on '■ saltatory" matters, and |n this same cqmiectiqn, of a sweet little yarn from a long way off I read the other day. She was a winsome damsel of 19,' and, when she had selected a suitable leg of pork at the butcher's, she ordered that it should he salted for boiling and sent round to her cottage in, well: —Mackq/ycown. After settling accounts, she deemed it wise to jog the butcheriaan'g faulty memory, and remarked, <; Now, don't you forget to put my leg in pickle, will you?'* Then she blushed, and fled precipitately.