SPORTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7297, 14 February 1887, Page 2

SPORTING.

WELLINGTON R.C. MEETING. ( Continued from Saturday.) W. R. C. Handicap. — Tigredia, 1 ; Charmer, 2 ; The Shah, 3. Tit Bit and Administrator also ran. A grand race; won by a short head. Time, 3 win. lOsecs. Dividend, £2 Ba. Consolation. — Princess Royal, 1; Ginooth (?), 2; Charmer, 3. Won by half a length. Time, lmin 50secs. Dividend, £2 14a. About £3,300 was put through the machine to-day, making £6,700 in the two days.

Referring to the Jubilee EiJitioa o£ Pickwick, a correspondent o£ the Manchester Guardian writes : — Permit mo to say that, so far as the name goes, Sam Weller was undoubtedly a boyish recollection of: Diokens's Ordnance terrace days. Mary Weller, John Dickens's old servant, still lives (aged 86) at Ghatham, and Weller is a very common name both at Rochester and Chatham to this day." It was at Chatham, during Dickens's childhood, that Thomas Weller kept the Granby'a Head, in the High street, as mentioned in "The Childhood an 1 Youth of Charles Dickens." Wardle, Dowler, and Lowten, are well-known names at Chatham, sr was Snoilgrass, and Peggotty (aaa Christian name for a womau) is still in use there. Of the original of the cJiaracter of Sam, I know nothing. Referring to the fireworks recently exhibited on the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, a writer in the Australasian of Jan. 15 says :—": — " A Jolirnony lady personally thanked Mr. Pain, on Saturday, for having cured bor husband by means of fireworks. It appears lhat thejpatieut was bedridden for a considerable time, and that the doctor could do nothing for him. Mr. Pain's aerial shells did what the doctors failed to accomplish. The bursting of the first shell had such an electrical effect on tho patient tint he jumped from his bed and rau to the window to sec what ha I happened. He has been all ri'ht ever since, an I does nothing but shower blessings on Air. Pain and his shell. Though fireworks fittings may damage cricket grounds, it is some consolation to cricketers to learn that the fireworks themselves promise to become an important curative agency in diseases of a paralytic character." If every newspaper adopted the plan of some American publications there would be fewer complaints about unpaid accounts for advertising levanters. The process is probably rather painful to the subject, but it is certainly adapted to effect a cure. This is the way one of them serves an individual named C. B. Thomson :—": — " We have taken out Thomson's 'ad,' and insert this instead. We believe him to be the biggest Dead bent out of jail, and \i his articles are no more reliable than he is they are not worth the cord it would take to hang them. Thomson gets his living by buying goods without paying for them, and getting his advertising in the same manner. Paying is no part of bis religion, and from his treatment cf us we are justified in believing him to be one of the most unscrupulous swindlers that has succeoded in keeping out of tho Penitentiary. Pass him along." The Bay of Plenty Times 3 lutes that a trial shipment of tinned butler,, was lately made from Tauranga to Rio de Janeiro, with the result that 2721 bof butter realised lljd. per lb. In larger shipments the average price is expected to be higher. The butter sent to Rio was, on the recommendation of experts, sent in three tins, and of these one turned out to be rancid, owing, probably, to defective packing or somo fault of the tiu, and the total prico realised wrb 21 J. per pound. From thin, when duty, freight, commission, &c, were deducted, the sum of lid. per pound remained. Had the three sample tins turned out satisfactorily, no doubt considerably more than Is. 9d. per pound would have been obtained. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce, which took stops to publirh particulars regarding n-mio with Brazil, deserves credit lor having lod to tho opening of such a renuuieuitivQ trade,