Sporting.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6143, 15 August 1891, Page 3

Sporting.

HUNT CLUB MEETING. Ohristchurch, to-day. Hunters' Hurdles.— Chestnut 1, Iroquois 2, Lewis 3. Div. L 3 lls 6d. A Napier Lad's Experience in New South Wales. Some scenes in connection with the labor troubles in New South Wales are graphically depicted by a Napier-born lad, who left here for Sydney, in a letter to his parents. He writes :— " We left Sydney in the gayest of spirits, and travelled to the never-to-be-forgotten place called Bourke. There wo were met by about six hundred unionists, whoimmediately onour arrival at the railway station started hooting,' and Galling on ua to come and join tho union, and those amongst us who refused were ' dealt with accorditigingly.' We had to walk about half-a--tnile to meet a steamer on the Darling river. During the walk about twenty of us, at the least, were flattened out, and others seriously injured, such as awns, legs, and jaws broken, besides other serious hurts. Thero were about five hundred of us left Sydney, but all that got on the boat would not number more than one hundred aud sixty, the rest being either aock- tails who joined the union, or were injured, or held' back. The crowd followed us to the boat, where we met some police, but their presence had no effect on the notorious wretches. To get on the boat we had to walk up a plank vine inches wide. Of course there was a crowd, and while waiting the unionist brutes were busily engaged stealing swags, mine going along with those that were stolen. While waiting my turn to get on the boat three chaps came up to me and said, " Why don't you join us ?" I said, *' No ; I have not done a stroke of work for six months." They replied -" D—you ; if you wont, go in there," and they chucked me in the river. I got out and stood on the bank again, when some wretch cut the strap from my shoulder, and clown went my swag. As they dared me to touch it, I went and told a policeman, but he said he could do nothing, and so I got on board minus my swag. But this was not all that we had to contend with. We were four days getting here (Winba), and every night wo camped on the river bank, and we always hid unionists somewhere near us, and did not dare to go to sleep without four or five being on watcli with pistols. On the second night a young fellow named Manning fell overboard and was drowned. Well, we arrived here on Friday, but we are not going to Tarella because it is not safe. We start shearing to-morrow, and I am going to have a try at it. — We have an Australian black's camp not far from < here, the blacks being engaged rabbiting. The rabbits are here in millions. We had n hunt, during which wo mot with five kangaroos, one of which we caught, I being first in at the kill." The proofs cf debt in seven years in Otago and Southland have amounted to no less than L 973,000, and the payments to creditors in the same period to L 198,781, or 4s lid in the pound, showing an immense Toss to the community. At a recent meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce it was mentioned by Mr R. Gardner that during last year 10,374 tons of flax were shipped from Wellington of the value of L 234,000. It was estimated that 2000 men were employed thore in the flax industry, their wages amounting to L 141,000. The contract price for tho Catholic Orphanage, to be erected at Wellington, which will accommodate several hundred orphans, is LSIOO. Over LISOO has been already collected to defray the cost of erection, while the amount laid on the | stone reached several hundred pounds ; the largest subscription was L 723, given by tho Johnston family. A correspondent has written to the Roy. Father Laverty, of Lyttelton, suggesting the formation of an Association of not less than sixty able-bodied youny Irishmen — "men with some grit in them, and, if possible, a few pounds," — to take up land in the North Island, the Government to be requested to set aside a block of 7000 acres of land, 6000 to be open land and 1000 acres bush. Mr James Mills has recently patented a combination manifold writing and copying book for telegrams. The book consists of telegraph forms interleaved with manifold paper. The telegram is written on manifold by means of a glass stylus, which duplicates tho message on manifold and telegram form. The telegraph form is perforated, having n guard two inches wide for the reply to be attached, so that when received, message and reply face each other, and as both bear the same number, any error in transmission from the original can be easily detected and traced. An index page facilitates easy reference to tho contents of the book. The invention will prove very useful to commercial men and business people generally. The photograph of Mr Toole bathing amongst tho Maoris at Whakarewarewa, has been very quickly found out in London. Mr Wilberforco Goldsmith, A.R.1., 8.A., wrices to tho Pall Mall Gazette : - " Sir, — I venture to write you with reference to a notice under the illustration (from a photograph) of 'Mr Toole . taking his bath amongst the Maoris ' in tho current number of the Pall Mall Budget. You refer to him as tho genial comedian as ho appeared ono sunny morning. It must indeed have been a very sunny one, as two suns aro shining, one casting shadows in one direction on the Maoris, and the other (the G. C's. special sun) casting shadows in another direction ! Mr Toole as a humorist will no doubt see the joke, aud you might, I would respectfully suggest, delight your numerous readers with an explanation of this envious solar effect in jour next issue." Mr Toole is invited to explain, but perhaps Iho problem had bettor be referred to the Auckland photographer who assisted him in tho joke. A boy having noticed two men digging at the foot of a tree on the oast park lands t Adelaide, and planting something, gave information to the police, who, upon examination of tho f?pot, found three tins which contained jewellery, etc., to tho amount of LIOO, also a number cf skeleton keys. The poliuo took the property and put tho tins back, setting a watch over the spot. Subsequently two men, Thomas Mathews and William Bartram, alias George Collins, were arrested whilo in the act of making off with the empty tins. Tho mon resisted, but after a struggle they were secured and locked up. The jewellory (says an exchange) proved to be some of the property stolen from the houses which have lately been robbed near the The Hawke's Bay Herald of Monday says :— During the second spell of the ro presentative football match on Saturday, Hiroa, one of the Hawke's Bay team, received a severe scalp wound about twe inches in length, caused by a player on the other aide kicking Hiroa's head lnsteac of the ball. The kick was r glancing one, or probably Hiroa would have been buriec this week. As it was the injury wa.< severe. Dr Innos who was on the ground attended to the injured man at once.

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