OUR AUCKLAND SPORTING LETTER.

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 24

OUR AUCKLAND SPORTING LETTER.

(Feom Oub Own Coebesppnobk^.) Auckland,' May 14, >- When the Takapuna Jpckey Club issued.their ' amended programme last week 6 itrwas found' that in tying the Compulsory Stakes with condi*' .' 1 tions they had, as it'were, driven a coach and "( four through the, metrppplitan club's, order to increase the added money. ■ Some of the com* mittee of the latter body were' for making an example of the T:J.C., but feeling on the matter has now cooled down, and there is not, I think, likely to :be any row." ' - . A good deal of m surprise was expressed last week when it was announced that'Majoir'Gfeorga 1 - ha 4 accepted the combined' post of chairman of directors and -managing director of. the Ne^ Zealand Stud Company, for- -that gehtlemaa , has always, shown great enmity towardef ttie- l cpmpany.. < The other vacant seat at the board* has' been filled by the appointment of Mr A. 1 0; ' Horton. Mr F, Stephens, who^ has-been acting' manager at Sylvia. Park for some months pattjj. " leaves in about* three weeks, %nd though the . . directors have not yet brought the negotiations 1 to a close, with Mr G. Cutts to aocept tbd post, his appointment is, I 'think, certain. . Though J. Kean has a largenUmber of horseir under his charge at- Kohimarama,' he will tot\ apparently be very strong in twcAyear-olda nexi season, Cambria ifby Nordenfeldt— Erycinß)». who is half-brother to the speedy 'Mitrailleuse , being the only youngster at present in bishands. Olytemnestra, one ,of theNewf Zealand Stni . - Company's, ---mares, was "destroyed last weekr Shortly after- her importation-fiom-.Englandj ill 1881, an ailment made its appearance in he? head, which swelled up-to a-greatsize; and»» •_, it. seemed quite'oertaib that the cause was anm*' , curable cancer, -Mr Halstead, the company'* 1 , , ij "vet.," ordered her' to r be 'destroyed, which ! w*« : , . accordingly donel ClytemnestraWas, 1 niay; remark, one of theveryfew Blair Athol mwea 1 , that are to be found in the colonies. ' * " , ■, , 'James Kean ! last week received an offer froffli nDnnedin for the steeplechaster. Huntsman, bp& 'as yet the business has' not been completed. , v ..COURTING. ' . ' : There aeems. ey^ryi .prospect, of theAuckl»n3 Coursing.C|ub haying a'mosfcsuxcessful meeting ■ at J^apatbitbinextweek. For the Birthday Cop , there are 35 ,npminations, while the- Derby W 8 30 and the Oaks 23. - ' - AQUATIC. ; The Auckland Rowing" iussociation are cojn* memorating the visit of 'the renowned rower - Edward Hanlan by getting up an aquatic meeting in his honour. ' The : chief attraction,,nowevtr, will be the events in which Hanlan vim himself take' part. These will be a &®w™ Handicaprin which the ex-champion wi l ], c( !°' cede lengthy starts to all, opponents, and,,*"" 1 an Exhibition'Eace, in which he will fpw^M??* the local champion* gig crew, Messrs,. s. Wayne, J. W. Dibkson, D. O'Brien./and R. Scp|t, over » .. mile 1 aistaiice. HapiahTTOll .also petforiß,^ unique JB*.^Malkiiig'nppn wa^er t in . *n* ■-' ' of Bho^WcU v a^:,^ow^bj9ing inanu^#Wdj!n a i

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