SPORTING NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4895, 22 June 1887, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

The Melbourne Sportsman makes the following very pitiful remarks about Mitrailleuse : — Mitrailleuse, the Maori mare, who ran second in the Royal Stakes, has more than confirmed the high opinion which I hold of her, and which I have expressed very pointedly in these columns. After a series of wretched displays in second class company she has at last come oat of her shell and run a really brilliant race, only to get beaten on tho post by something only just a triflo better at the weights. What a waste of patience and plot ! The mare might have won any of the racas in which she had been beaten, but she ' wasn't, well,' or her party were out of sorts. They preferred to go for a big thing, and they didn't quite get home. They have, moreover, shown their haud, and will have to wait a lung time era they find a handicapper sufficiently gullible to let her in a short distance race at anything under Bst 101 b. I lee, by the way, that Mr Scarr has very •ensibly given her Oat in the Sydney Turf Club Flying Stakes.

A Canterbury sporting contributor writes: — The absence of Lochiel's and Maxim's names from the list of entries fur the Melbourne Cup haa caused some inquiry for them for the New Zealand Cup and Derby respectively, while Nelson and Sextant, as well as the Hon W. Robinson's and Mr Drake's horses, are now puzzling the public.

On Juno 1, 50 years a^o the Brat bnd sale took place in Melbourne, when an avora r 4o of £70 per acre was obtained. One halt-acre for which £20 wai given, still remains in the family of the original purchaser, a!!cl the present valuo of tlie allotment ia £99,0C3. Adding to this th,« income derived from tho land, it may bo said that the £20 has earned £200,000. A meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Australian Shearers' Union was hold at Oamaru the other evening. Rulea were drawn up for the guidance of members, and a comtnittao of five was ap pointed to conduct the affairs of tho. association. Mr Slavery was elected secretary, and Oamaru was fixed as the headquarters of the .association of tho colony. The char<<e< for shearing was fixed at £1 per hundred for the North Island and 10s 8d for the South Island. It was stated thai the New Zealand members of the association now number 2300. Ruffler, in ' Vanity Fair, 'says:— " Persons with a taste for arithmetic may derive some amusement in solving this problem : If a hen and ahalf lay an egsj and a-half in a day and a-half, how many eggs will hens lay in six days? " . A bazaar w:i3 recently held in Edinburgh with a view to the removal of a debt of £500 on Fountainbridge Evangelical Union Church, and among tho exhibits was a large beech-tree, cut by Gladstone at Hawarden, which was sokVin pieces to suit purchasers. The proceeds of the two days amounted to £400. On last Christmas Day 0397 bright new sixpences were distributed among that number of children in London charitable institutions. The demand for the American remedy Hop Bitters, in this part of t^e couutry has becme so great that the Hop Bitters Co. , whose headquarters are at Rochester, New York, U. S. A. , have been compelled to open a laboraiory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr. M. H. Van Burgh, a gentleman of sevc>al years exnerience with thi* company and the trade may bo assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H. B. Co. have establishments at London, Pan's, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world. -"ROUr.II ON ITCH."-" Rough on Itch ernes skin humors, eruptions, ringworm, tetcr, saltrlieuin,, frost.pd leM chilblains. itch, tivv poison hirhor 8 itch "TtOUGH ON PILKS." Why suffer Piles Immediate relirf and complete cure guaranterd. Ask for " RoHjrh on Tiles." Sure cure for itching, protrudinsr, WcAina, or any form of Piles.