SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10659, 12 May 1906, Page 1

SPORTING.

Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, last night. Mr George Morse lias declared the following weights for the Great . Northern meeting, whicW takes place at Ellcrslie on June 2nd, 4th, and 9th : — Great Northern Hurdles: Hautapu 12.2, Up-to-date IL9, Miss King 11.8, Comfort 11.2, Kremlin, Sol, and St. Lyra 10.13, Aka Aka and Waiwera 10.10, Irish, Shrapnel, and Florio 10.8, Waitaiere and Ranana 10.7, Cavalry, Convoy, and Weary Bill 10.6, Kuroki 10.1, Prin. cess of Thule and Medallius- 10.0, Exiuoor and Romany King 9.12, Ability and Lady Hune 9.8, Hydrant 9.7, Defender, Luli, King Paul, and Cuinigno 9.6, Durable, Apiti, and Le Beau 9.5, Waikato 9.3, Gold Seal 9.2, Silicia, ijh'y.x, Baritone', Flanagan, and Catherine Gordon 9.0. Great Northern Steeplechase : Up-to-date 12.8, Kiatero 12.4, Haydn. 11.9, Slow Tom 11.7, Comfort 11.4, Sol ami Hautapu 11.3, Phaetonitis 10.11, Princess of Thule and Cannongate 10.10, Mocassin and Aka Aka 10.9, Miss King and Hutaiiii 10.7, H.ippowai and Wailarero 10.5, Matador 10,4. Pharos 10.3, Swimmer, Eclair, Ranana, Hakaria. and Weary Bill 10.2, Jack 0' Lantern 10.0. Irish, Cavalry, ami Medallius 9-12, Sopliia 9.10, Tip, Flanagan, North Star, Baritone, South Star, Mawhiti. and Catherine Gordon 9.7. ' A tote betting prosecution broke down at Woodville on account of the principal witness being suddenly overcome with complete loss of memory ! The following clever conundrum concerning DoMic has found its way into print. "In what striking way is Elijah 11. unlike Elijah 1. ?" "The latter was fed by the ravens, but the* former is fed by gulk." Wo wish it clearly understood (says the Eketahuna Express) that, unless under very extraordinary circumstances, we cannot suppress the names of persons who figure m Court proceedings. One subscriber, whose name appeared m our laso issue, has cut off his uos«, as it were, to spite his face, and has instructed us to stop Kis paper. We have stopped it, but uot put Clio shutters up. A Dunedin engineering firm (Messrs Crichton and Williams) kis provisionally patented an individual desk and seat for use m the public schools. The desk is 18in wide, with a ledge grooved to hold pens and containing an inkwell. The surface of the desk is adjustable at any angle. The standards are of cast iron, and the soais consists of a chair of kaflri pine, with a bank, but no aides, and is 60 constructed that it can bo made to face m any direction, while its distance from the desk can bo varied to the extent of a foot. One advantage claimed lor this iv vent ion is that it will not require any i more floor space than the style of desk and form at present m use, and its adop--1 tion will nob necessitate any alteration iv the floors of the schools. Another superiority claimed is thai the seat can , be lifted off its standard and put under the desk, thus giving room for physical I exercises to be carried out without inconvenience.

Mr Fair, the manager of the New Plymouth oil -works, states : "No doubt this bore is tapping a large field. There is every indication that this js the case. Before proceeding with the bore two years ago, I examined all.tho indications, which were highly satisfactory, otherwise I should not lwve undertaken the work. At any time now you can go out on the beach and skim cupfuls of oil from sea-water, showing that there is an outlet of oil somewhere m the water near the shore. If this Mere a. 'pocket,' we would not have such an enormous pressure m the .well, and another point that completely deetroye the pocket theory is the quality of the oil, secured. Were it coming from a pocket",' the oil would bo what wo call dead, but it is alive, and very much alive. Unhesitatingly I cay from the- indications that we have tapped a very large field of high-grade oil. I believe I can put down other bores m the locality with equal chances of success." Mr Fair luuj received a tonununi. trict that ho found indications of oil m that district. Mr Fair thinks there is" v probability tliaj^^^oil^beariiig strata

The leading lady of a Chicago company, while playing at Linton, Indiana, spoke slightingly of the town, whereupon ono "IJk. .i.ioVeiic?-, il'Jgy-ja-S'evolver and sl»»j.. her m the leg. -A baby 46 years old has just died m Westbury Workhouse, Wiltshire. The child was born m Westbury, and at the age of twelve moucksi its further development, both physical and mental, was arrested. Throughout its life it was attired m baby's frock clothes, and continued to nct'aud play, and had to be fed and taken care of, precisely as an infant. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Minister of Public Works, lias (says the Timaru Pusl) redeemed his promise to provide a h'rstclass light at the Jack's Point Lighthou.«ye. The new light has arrived, and >irl3cott, of tike. Marine Department, has come to Timaru to place it m position. It is a 10-second occulting flashlight. Its cost run into several hundred pounds, and it will take some considerable time to erect it; A New Plymouth tailor is reported to have made a couple of very profitable suits of clothes recently. A customer offered him, some weeks ago, a couple of petroleum shares m payment for two siiitw, and he accepted the offer, recognis. ing that if the scrip was only worth ks face value, he was not ill-paid for his MOik. • He has just disposed of one of the £5 shares for £49. and steadily refuses to part with the other. The other paily to the transaction is probably not m tlie same self-satisfied frame of mind. Mr F. H. Phillips, interpreter to the Legislative Council, and supervisor for taking the Maori census, writes as follows : Tho Maoris throughout the North Island are m dire need of assistance regarding a supply of potatoes for the coming winter months. The ravages of potiuto blight have been so destructive that areas of five to seven acres planted last, season have m most cases yielded nothing, or scarcely more than an ordinary handful of eatable tubers. This places the Maoris m great distress, as the pot.ito is their staple article of food. It. means also the diminishing of their pork supply, as the porkers, too, are cheilly reared on this, to the Maori, all important article of diet. Reliable information has been received with respect to the scarcity of the potato m the kaiugas along the West Coast ol this island, and tlierejs a cry from a numbor of tribes appealing for help ere the winter is down upon them. Apart from the potato, other crovv>, such as pumpkins, mairows, maize, etc., havo suffered grievous destruction by some kind of blight and unseasonable (ros-t. Spraying the crops with blight-killing mixtures has had no satisfactory results., A number of Maoris are already without any of the above-mentioned vegetables, and the high <price of fioiw, tea, and sug.ir m outlandish places makes it extremely awkward for the Maoris. Besides, the Maori cannot go along without his potato. He enjoys what he calls "pakeha food" for a short time only, and ho soon frets for the taewa.