SPORTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10481, 5 December 1895, Page 2

SPORTING.

TURF ITEMS. The first day of the Takapuna Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday. Cap ital acceptances have been received, anc the events bear an open aspect.

The Mahmapua took away 1038 packages of dairy produce from tho breakwater this morning. The Hauroto arrived at "Wellington from Sydney at 11.5 this morning, bringing 118 passengers for all ports. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 1.30 p.m. to-day : — North-eaat to north and west gale, with rain and heavy sea, nf ter 20 bour.-i irom now ; glass fall, and indications for high tides. The stocks of oysters in the hands of the saloon keopers in "Wellington were seized by the ranger on Monday last, when the close season commenced, and deposited at suitable spots in the harbor. It has been calculated by a statistical fieud that the hair of the beatd grows at the raio of one and a half lines a week. Thi9 will givo a length of six and a half inches in the course of a year. For a man 8J years of ago no less than 27 feet of bea> d mu3t have fallen before the edge of the rr><sur. It is reported that a mountain of onyx hii-i beou dibcovcred in Mexico, about 'M mile.s from El Pas.co. lc is said to be of a superior quality, fine grained, and beautifully marked with cilico streaks of variegated colours blended across the face of the edge. The mineral, it is claimed, scales olf in largo slates, making it possible to sell it as cheap as common stone. The Wanganui Chronicle, summing up a notice ot Mark Twain/a " At Home " on Tuesday evening^ says : -In a word a Wanganui audience was treated to a nvgmficeut entertainment — intellectual and humorous. A man known l.y ziamo and fame to overy Euglkh -speaking country, who has charmed couutless thousands by the keen humor of his writings, but whom we, in little Wanga; nui, never expected to personally moet^ hay not overlooked us in his tour round the world, and in turn the courtesy of his visit was rewarded by iho patronage of a crowd as large as could bo packed into the house. A lady at Tooleys, La., was very sick with bilious colic when M. C. Tisl. r, a prominent meiv-hatit of tho town, gave her a bottlo of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoei Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes after taltiug the first tloae. For sale by Now Plymouth Uo-oparative Society. — Advt Happy homes and how to make them. Study your digostiou by using cakes Rcones and bread baked with Anderson's Jumbo Brand Baking JfPowdw. Al! grooers keep it,— ApVT. j