SPORTING,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9950, 10 March 1894, Page 2

SPORTING,

WANGANUI AUTUMN MEETING. Second Day — March 1). (Continued from yestetday.) [l'nil PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Corinthian Stakes Hanihcai 1 . One mile and a distance. — King John, 1 ; Stranger, 2. Time 2min ssec. Div. £1 10s. Autumn Handicap. One mile. Poiusettia, 1 ; Dreamland, 2 ; Musket, 3. Time lmim 44 2-ssec. Div. £26. Second Handicap Hack Race, ijmile. — Kai Iwi Lady, 1 ; Strike, 2 ; Bono voree, 3. Time, lmin 18 l-ssec. Higgins, the rider of Kai Iwi Lady, was a pound short on weighing-in, and Strike therefore got the stakes. Dividend, £8 9s. The first horse was paying £22 18s. Consolation Handicap. 1 mile. — Goodwood, 1 : Pill, 2 ; Musket, 3. Time, lmin 49sec Div. £4 13s. The principal racing payments of the Wanganui J.C. meeting are : Butler, £l) 17 10s ; Douglas, £218 10s; Rathbone, £171; Watson, £133; Jackman, £85" 10s; Sutton, £61 15s ; Ross, £47 10s ; Ormond, £38 ; George £19 ; Hunter, £14 ss. Several others bring the net total to £1,596. MELBOURNE TURF NOTES. [PER I'KESS ASSOCIATION.] Meluouuxe, March 9. — Owing to tho severe heat combined with the terrific pace at which the race was run, the services of a veterinary surgeon were rendered necessary for Hova, after the Champion Stakes on Thursday. Portsea likewise displayed symptoms of lameness. Light Artillery was the least distressed of the field. TURF ITEMS. Weights for Patea Races will be declared on Monday next, 12th March. Acceptances are due to-night at 8 p.m., for Oeo Races. Handicaps for Stratford Sports are due on Monday next 12th March. Mr E. Putt has sold Fauntleroy to an Auckland sport. The price received has not been divulged. The protest against Dandy, winner of the Hack Flat at Wanganui on the first day, has been further adjourned to a special meeting of the Club on March 22. MY WATCH AND OTHER WATCHE-». One evening last summer I had some writing to do at my home. Tbe weather was vtry hot, and I took off ray coat and waistcoat. My new gold watch (that I had paid £30 for) I laid before ma on tbe table, where I could keep an eye on it Ss far so good. I wrote on, and papers accumulated on tbe table, ope of them covering my watch. Reaching ont for something I wanted, my arm accidentally swept it to the floor Ob, heavens, what luck ! I* picked it up— tenderly aB one picks up a child who has had a bad tumble. Was it still runniDg? Yes. faintly ; but aa I put it to my oar it ticked a few times, feebly and slowly, and then stopped — a deud watch. A minute ago it was a vital tfrng — now merely a lot of motionless wheels in a case What was broken ? I couldn't say. The watchmaker roust repair it and return it, with his bill. So tnuoh for my stupid carelessness. Yet nobody is bo poor as not to cany a more valuable watch than that ; one that will run many years without winding. But when it stops, ah ! then, wLo is able to set it going again ? Speaking a bout the one he owns, Mr Geo. W. Burton, of Kirton Holms, Boston, says " My heart fluttered in a way to alarm me. Sometimes it was so bad I fancied I couli fear it atop beating." What ailed Mr Barton's heart ? Perhaps lub letter will help as to find oat. He says : I October, 1887, In began to feel weary and languid. I had a bad taste in the mouth, and in the morning my leotn gum a were covered with a and thick bloody slime. My appetite failed, and after eating I hud great pain in the chest and stomach. All the time I bad a craving for food, but dare] not take Bolids. It seemed sometimes that my head would burst with pain, and I was so dizzy I could hardly see. After a while a cough set in, and I spat op great quantities of phlegm. Later .on my breathing became very 'Dad, and I would break into a cold sweat. I kept on growing weaker until it was all 1 could do to get about, and in this condition I continued for four years. During this time I consulted doctors and used all the different medicines I heard of, but none of them did any good." Now, let s think a minute. Mr Barton says I) is heart fluttered and palpitated, he had a hacking cough, and difficulty in breathing — three frightful things. A man might die of any one of them, as we all know. Yet he recovered from all of them — and all at the savie time. He says :— "In February, 1891, 1 heard of what Mother rjeigel'B Curative Syrup had done in similar cases, and I determined to try it, and got a bottle from Meters. Grimble and Kent, chemists, Brston. The first few doses gave relief, and by continuing to use it in a short time I was perfectly cured. I mako this statement in order that others mty know where to look for a remedy in aa illness like mine." (Signed) •• Geo. W. Burton." We rejoice at his restoration to health, but what, after all, ailed him ? Did he have three diseases— viz., beirt complaint, consumption, and asthma ? And, if so, how on earth could Mother Curative Syrup have cured them — each affecting different organs ? The answer is, he had but one disease, indigestion and dyppepsia, of which the feeble heart, the irritated throat, and the burdened lungs were tell titles nnd symptoms. The poisoned blood-filled with deadly acidß irom the stomach— half paralysed the nerves and thus oisordered the heart's action ; it also infected the delicate nioinbr»no lining of tho lungs and air passages, producing asthma and the cough that seemed to threaten consumption. One disease, many misleading symptoms— that is the truth ; deluding physicians, and frightening patients into thinking there is no hope. When life's timepiece runs down uo power on oarth can wind it up agaiu, but Mr Burton's case, and thousands more, proved that it is often good for many a year after you thought the works would Boon be motionless in tho case.