SPOUTING NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4742, 16 December 1886, Page 3

SPOUTING NEWS

THE AUCKLAND MEETING. Hippona in the Star on Tuesday gives the following quotations : -Late on Monday night Kinytish came into notice in connection with the meeting. About lu6 winning the Cup 500 to 30 was booked, and afterwards 1,000 to 60 was taken that he pulls off the Cup and Derby, while 500 t j 15 wa3 pencilled against Kingrish and Guy Fawkea for the Cup and Steeplechase. Nelson and Wailiri, coupled with Jim, were backed for the Cup and Steeplechase at 100 to o and 6, aud £500 to 12 was written in one lino against Lochiel and Jim. The following are tho quotations on offer for the Cup : --5 to 2 against Nelson, a to 1 Waitiri, i> to 1 Disowned, 5 to 1 Fusilade, C» tci 1 Lochiel, 100 to 10 Tetfnrd, 100 to 8 Ki-gh'sh, 100 to 7 Clogs, ICO to 5 Cinderella, iU'J to 5 Victoria, 100 to L' Creniornc. According to a, (Jueenalaiid u.tehauge this is how they are yoimj to toll when a dead he»t h run at the race meetings: — The Queensland Turf Club have engaged the services of a phntoyrapher, who will take his lena in front ;>f the judge's box, opposite the winning p«>sr, so as to take an instantaneous photograph of the horse or horses lirst past the post. As they pass, the j-irlge presses n spring,

whose action exposes and recovers the lens in a fraction of ;i second and tho photograph thus obtained "will set at re.;t all doubts and questions as to dead heat verdicts, which rarely '/ivo satisfaction. Old 57th men will he interested by the fallowing extract from the Taranaki Herald :— " By the mail from England Mr Thomas Furlong received a present which was as unexpected as it must have bt-en gratifying to him. It was a <jold scarf pin of the mo3t artistic de--i«»n and finish, and on the little box in which it was enclosed were tho words : " Thomas Furlong, from his friends Sir H. and Luly Warre.' The present is a ' regimental pin,' the design of its head being the insignia of the 57th Regiment — the one Mr Furlong formerly belonged to, and of which Sir H. Wurro was at that time the colonel. The design consists of two laurel boughs surmomited by a crown. Across the laurel boughs aro tho letters 'LVII.,' under which is a scroll bearing tho word 'Albuera.' Accompanying the present is a letter, the conclusion of which reads thus : ' Accept and wear tho little memento of past times, with beat remembrances and regards of your faithful friends. — H. H. Wakkk, Gkokgin'.v E. Wakke.' " Not a nKVBRAOE.— " They aro not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties, oft'ni" highest degree, eontaiuiug no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an already debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle containa more real hop strength thau a bari-.'il of ordinary benr. Physicians prescribe them.— Rochester U S.A., Evening Express on American Hop Bitters.