SPORTING. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Wanganui, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1242, 15 June 1880, Page 2

SPORTING. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Wanganui, Last Night.

The acceptances for the Wanganui Steeplechase Handicap are : — Agent, Grey Momu«, Baron, Loch Lomond, Ada,' Veuture, Hard limes, The General, Turapeku, Abolition, Ottawa, King Den, Sunbeam. Eclipse, Old Ireland, Matatu. Entries for the Grand Stand Steeplechase : — Grey Mourns, Baron, Ranyatira, Mickey Free, Hard Time*, Venture, Kin jDon, Kantraroo, Old Trel md. Matatu. Entries for the M-iiden Steeplechase :— Hamlet, Sauray, The Geuer.il, Tuapt-kn, Rinuratirn, Sunbeam, Abolition, Black Prince, Kang-aroo, Eclipse, and dilver Cloud,

AX EXTRAVAGANT MONARCH. — The Constantinople correspondent of the Journal de Geneve gives some curious details respecting the expenditure of the j Sultan. This bankrupt, who can pay neither his creditors nor his civil cmi ployees, and whose soldier* are literally staiving, manages to wast £2,400,000 per annum on himsolf and eunuchs, sultanas, and^ courtier*, that reside in hi* palace. He 'has 300 cooks and 200 attendants to carry food from the kitchen to tho tables, 10 table-meters, to arrange the service, 10 stewards to draw up the daily vienus. There are 10 employes to unfold the carpet on which he prays, 10 coffee roasters to make his coffee, 10 servants to clean his pipes, 20 vuletb to look after his clothes, 8 persons to light his chandeliers, 8 others to clean his aviaries 100 boat-mon to row his boat if he makes an excursion on the Bosphorus, 5 armorers, 2 hairdressers, and 2-50 grooms. Altogether 400') servants living at his expense.