SPORTING

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9206, 7 October 1891, Page 3

SPORTING

HAWKE'S BAY SPRING MEETING. Second Day— October 6. (Continued from yesterday) Spring Handicap. — British Lion, 1 ; Eosefoldt, 2 ; Whisper, 3. Time, 2min 41 3-saecs. Dividend, £51 Is. Nursery Handicap, — Wakawatoa, 1 ; Adelaide, 2 ; Guncotton, 3. Time, 51 sees. Dividend, £3 14s. Final Handicap. — La Petite Fille, 1 ; Dreamland. 2 ; Hakimana, 3. Dividend, £4 7s. Maid of Lome won the Post Stakes, and Musketeer the Welter Handicap. £4,343 passed through tho machine. British Lion's owner held more than half the tickets on him.

Messrs Macf arlane Brothers, of Hobart, write to their local correspondents at Auckland as under :—": — " In reply to your enquiry as to the rate of freight charged by tho P. & O and Orient Companies last season, it was 90s per ton of 4'J cubic feet, and five per cent, primage. The cases measure two cubic feet each, as near as possible, containing one bushel. The average weight of a case is gross 561 b, net 421 b. Next season much larger quantities of fruit are expected to be shipped, say 200,000 to 250,000 cases. Our shipping season begins early in March, and ends tho latter end of April. Growers expect a redaction of freight this season, but we do not know whether the above companies will allow it." From the abovo fruit growers will learn that they are not likely to fare better by going further afield. The Australian companies having charged the same rate for 160,000 cases as Now Zoa land's 5000 cases were taken for last season. Messrs Dingle and Corko invito inspection of their largo and well selected stock, which will bo found equal in cxtont and variety to that of any furnishing warohouso oetween Auckland and Wellington. For tables, chairs, Buites, cheffioniova, bedsteads, wardrobes, dressing-tables, chests drawers, wash stands, &c , there is no bottor mart on tho coast. Carpots, rugs, linoleums, china and other mattings, &c. \ a largo selection of fancy goods, vaseH, cabinots, Japanese ware, &c, ahvays in Block. Dinner avd tea-sots, toilet nets, glass and crockeryware, cheapest and beat in tho town. Cabinot work and upholster ing done on the promises by cpmpotont workmen also, undertaking. — Auvt Certainly the best medicine known is Bander and Bon's Euoalyiti •Exthaot. Tent its eminently powerful effects ia coughs, colds, influenza — the roliof is in etantaneoiiH. In serious cases, and accidents of all kimlH, be they wounds, burns, scald ingfi, bruises, sprains it is tho safout remedy — no Bwollinj.', no inflammation. Like surprising ofl'ectH produced in croup diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of 1 the lungs, BwcllingH, &c. ; diurrhcoft, dyßentry, diseases of tho kidnoyH, and urinary organa. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved jutisle, tad tejeot *ll ofow,