LAND & WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1844, 25 March 1887, Page 21

LAND & WATER.

. At the Kennel Clnb's show at Christchurch Mr H. S. Valentine took first prize for a bull bitch. Mr A. Gaisford took second prize for , a bull terrier. Mr Twopeny's Belvoir Tarn took * first prize in the champion class for fox-terriers,-and the same dog carried off the Champion Challenge Cup. ' ,/ A Wellington telegram,states that JVfonnock, the Wellington sprinter, who went td Sydney to' take, part in the Sheffield Handicap, was not placed in any of the events. ' * £ v, -.-.-• ' . On the.whole, the .entries recefvedfor^the dog show on Friday and Satxitday^re deemed satisfactory, and in some* of 'tbe, t classes t competition is expected. < t The Canons olasses have;..' -filled as'foUows ;— 3Js6vsej " 3 :: i ei}triesi' : ~New» "

foundlands, 8; St. Bernards, 7; greyhounds, 7 ; pointers, 4; setters^; retrievers, 8 ; spaniels, 7; collies, 10;' fox -terriers, 43; Skye terriera, 2; black and' : 'tan,.7 ; bulldogs,'.6 ; "bull terriers, 7; Chinese pugs, 3. „,k ,' -', ' • , >.\ A Ohristohurch;telegram states that the Committee of the Chrietchurch..Regatta, Club havd sustained the protest," lodged by -F.Foster, 6i the Union Club, against Cornish and Hume, of. the Star ,Club, for not going between the flags marking the winning-post in the single- sculling race at the.late regatta. , , '.' ' , •At last "(says a Sydney paper) the English runner Hutohens has shown his true form, and after the ease with which he beat Samuels there < can be iio two opinions that his equal has never been seen in .the" colonies.^,. Since severing his connection with the "person who cape from England as his, backer he. ; has beeh.kept.pretty' close in training, and his most immediate friends laid odds' of 6 to -2 that, he won, back the. championship. He has now run' five matches in this colony, two of which Went against 'him. So quiokly has the tide turned in his favour and, as is invariably the case, the loser almost forgotten, that it is said' he can.be backed to give Samuels three jardsin 150 for any portion of £500 a-side. .'..' '< • .' "; The great feature in pedestrianism in Sydney has been the running-off of the Botany Handicap. , The result was thai, the Victorian ped, P.* J. Maloney, won, and that' easily, from James W. Byraes,rwith \Geddes third and Hutchens fourth, the tune being 13 2-sth sec. There, was a great amount of 'money pending on the eesult. " ' . < • "-<■'' . Hutchens is matched,, against Samuels and Trinder, for "a 130ydsfrJice, 'jEIOO a-side with each; To Samuels, who twjpa ( defe^ted,hitn level before the Putney man .reyersed'the order of things, he concedes three -yardV^ii 13b'B i' April. Trinder, who won ft Botany 'Handicap, gets four and a-, half ,yards on 26th"Marpfi. There is Bome;prob»bility of .the winning crew in the.' forthcomjhg intercolonial eight-oared race between ;YK>toria and "! New South Wales going to England.' \ t> >, v .„ An Auckland telegrauS^tates that Mr Arnold, secretary of the Southern Rugby Union, Sydney, has written to the Auckland Rugby Union inviting aNew^Zealand' team to visit Sydney during the coming season. . He offers the same terms as the' first New Zealand team were given, with an alternative of three-fourths of the gross takings, and all the Mabrilanders' expenses. He considers that the Sydney public now t take a greater interest .id the -game and that np loss would result on the trip; He hopes. to see" a team for this season, as .Queensland's engaged with them during the.followiug winter. He has communicated with other unions to' the same effect. • ... - ' . , „