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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 24 October 1872, Page 2

The splendid trophy known as the Elcho Challenge Shield, which, after a close contest, was again on the 27th July, won by the English Eight at the Wimbledon Meeting, was publicly presented to the Lord Mayor in the Guildhall, with a view to its safe custody there until the next competition. At the same time the Snider International Trophy, of the value of £1000, recently won, at Edinburgh by twenty picked men representing England, and the handsome Irish Challenge Cup* won,, on behalf of England, by ivate Wyatt,.of the 13th Salop, were also handed \<> his lordship for the same purpose. The prizes, w h are most massive, were conveyed on gun c. rriagej in charge of their respective winners from, the Thames embankment to Guildha 1 ! with an escort of the Honourable Artillery Company, under the command of Captain Defries, and the procession naturally attracted a good deal o2 interest. The Matin publishes an account of the experiments made by a doctor of Montpellier, to ascertain the effects, of wine, brandy, and absinthe on fowls. Those birds tcok very readily to the regime, and ended by absorbing daily six cubic centimetres of alcohol, or from 12 to 15 of wine. The result was that they lost flesh rapidly,, especially those which drank absinthe. Two- months of. that liquor was sufficient to kill them ; those treated" with brandy resisted for. four months and a half, and with wi ie ten months, An extraordinary effect of this alcoholism „ was the immense development of cock's, crests, which increased to four times their natural size, and assumed a brighter hue..