SPORTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7173, 17 September 1886, Page 2

SPORTING.

LATEST BETTING ON THE GREAT

METROPOLITAN STAKES. [reuter's copYßianx telegbams.] The latest betting in Sydney on the Great Metropolitan Stakes is : — Rigmaster, 5 to 1 ; The Jewel, 7 to 1.

A Wanganui paper gives currency to a rumour that the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ballance intend to pay a visit to tho Home Country at no distant date. According to the gossipy London writer of the Aackland Star, Mr. Whitmore, who defeated Sir Charles Dilke for Chelsea, is a rolative of Sir George Whitmore , commander of the Now Zealand Forces. Mr. Whitrnoro is described as' "a briefless but inoffensive and pleasant-mannered young barrister." A correspondent of tho Christchurch Press complains that New Zealand potteries were shut ont from competition for the 100,000 insulators for which tenders were called because no departure was allowed from the sample. He states that those now in use are manufactured in Prussia, and have a white enamel or glaze. Tlub white glaze is the only dlfli julty with the Now Z 'aland manufacturers, thu pottery kilns b-iut; constructed so that ouly a brown, but equally good, glaze can be given. Tho Government were at once communicated with, showing that the body o£ the material could be made white as pattern, but not the glaze, which, as before stated, would be brown. The reply came that no departuro would bo allowed fro«:i tho sample pattern in any way, thus shutting out any chance for New Zealand competing fer the work. There aro eight kilas in Canterbury, six in Ota^o, and several others in the North Island — not a few shut up and the emplqyes swelling the ranks of tho unemployed. Bananas aro a lately introluced novelty in tho English trade. They ate brought from the West Indies in a chamber in the vessel, tin temperature o£ which is carefully regulated by machinery. A O ipe paper (tho Eastern. Star) says that the Mjst Uev. Biahop Ric.irds has been appointed by his Holiness the Pope to tho newly-created Culholic diocese of Chrißtchurch. The n'.-ws, it is s.iil, has been received with consternation by qvut pooJ Catholic at Port Elizabeth. The N.Z. Tablet contradicts this statera; n'. Bbnefactors. — " When a board of cmirii nt pin biciansnnd elieiniste announced the discovi ry that by combining some wellknown valuable) remedies a must wonderful medicine was produced, svhicli would euro Buch a wide mn-re ot' diseases that most all other remedies could be dispensed with, many wero skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers o£ that fjreat medicine, Dr. Soule's Ameiican Hop Bitters, are honored aud blessed by all as I bent-faotors." Read You Can Bis Happy if you will stop all your doctoring youiselL' and families with expensivo doctors or cure- ills tint do onlj harm, and use Nature's simple r j modies for nil )our ailments, j on will be well and hippy and save great expense. The urjattst i umed y for this, tLc gifiit, wii-p, and I cool will tv tell 30U, id American Go's. HopjßitUre. b 4 j 20