TURF NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 29 July 1905, Page 18

TURF NOTES.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Norres Homo. The animal subscription to Tattcrsall’s Chib for private members is .LI 1/. There is also an entrance fee of £1 1 . rhe fee for bookmaking members is £loo. a list of members ami particulars as to membership can be obtained from the secretary at the club. Cannot call to mind any standard work on betting. A book of betting rules can be obtained from Tattersall’s Club. B. Main. As near as we can trace XX’airiki won £4090 and Canteen £3210. These fig* tires are pretty accurate. The annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club will be held on Monday, August 7th. (’. Weal has had an addition to his string in the shape of a rising four-year-old horse by Cuirassier—St. Edith. Acceptances for the C.J.C. National Hurdles. Steeplechase, and Winter Cup ilose on the 28th inst. Rambler is to stand the season in the Auckland district. W. Tozer is to have charge of him. A. Mitchell is new located at Ellerslie with To Papa and a two-year-old halfbrother to Sonoma by Explosion. It has been definitely decided that Haydn is to fulfil his C.J.C. National engagements. and he will be shipped South at an early date. A. Goodwin, private trainer to Mr T. IT. Lowry. has been on the sick list for the past few weeks, and was unable to take Mr Jewry’s horset? to Wellington. The A.R.C. committee are having a lot of ornamental shrubs planted along the lawn fence ami around the weighing enclosure at Ellerslie. Frank Ross is schooling Whakahihi over the small fences, at Piieroa. and th? son of Regel is stated to display great aptitude for the jumping game. The •Australasian.”' in reviewing the parade before the X’.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, gave the palm for looks to the New Zealander, Up-to-Date. On Saturday at. Ellerslie. Silicia. Mankn. Frank Dodd, and Straybird wire schooled over hurdles, the first pair taking the small er ones and the latter going on over the larger ones. .1. B. Williamson’s team, consisting of Loch Fine. X’einition. Lerida. and the gelding by Sou’west r wore given a turn over the schooling hurdles, going in pairs. The quartette jumped well. Mr XX'. J. Ralph, judge for the Takapuna Jo: k< y Ciub, has announced himself as a candidate for one of the vacant seals on th: A.R.C. Committee. Mr N. A. Nathan will also be a candidate. While spurting on the course proper at Ellerslie last Saturday afternoon, the Cyrenian Sparkling Water colt ran into one of the trestles ami came down. Fortunately neither the colt nor his rider was hurt. W«>:\l fiom Melbourne states that the exNew Zealander Kilmarnock, while exorcising on the tracks at Caulfield, fell ami broke two of his logs, and had to be deSt. Cyril l,y Cyrenian Windmill, halfhfothor to Spalpeen, changed hards recently for the small sum of £9. He was purchased by a resident of the Gr at Barrier, ami is to perform stud duties there. The double. limiskillen and Newtown, was last Friday supported to win the C.J.C. National double. The money was secur-i on behalf of the stable. The. pair are Io ho shipped to Christchurch at an ear’.; I’he caretaker of the Ellerslie raeeconise (C. Hill) and his staff are making splend’d progress with the improvements t«» i he race track, and if the weather k ops at all fine, a very few weeks should see the work completed. The filly. Job Lots, by Days! ar — Discount, is to be given a spell, and has been turned •mt at her owner’s plaii>. Prince Roy, belonging to the same owner, has liven put into work, and has gout* into W. MobIn rlvy’s stable. In his schooling work at Papron. Romeo has had the Leolantls gelding Franklin as a companion, and the latter is reported to. b a splendid fencer, and all r go4ng well, will prnbaldy be seen out in some of the jumping events during Hie forthcoming sea■uu.

Inniskillvn and Haydn were schooled ove - * th»* steeplechase fvnvi s inside the course at Ellerslie on Saturday morning, both jumping well. I nniskil len especially so. At one fence, the sod wall. Inniskillen stood of! fu ly eighteen feet, and cleared it without laying a toe on it. XX ord from Pa.eroa states that Romeo lias got through a lot of schooling work there in good style. He has been ridden in his tasks Runnel, who. provided he is granted a license, will have th? mount on him in th: Grand National. It is practically a certainty that Romeo will make the trip to Christchurch. A large number of rising two year olds were spurted nt Ellersiie on Saturday, amongst the number bring the Soult —- Princess Alice lilly. Cyrenian Drudge filly. Soult- Lena tiliy, Mensrhikoff—Cressy lil’.y. Mensrhikoff Queen Cole filly. Cyrenian—Sparkling XX’ater colt, Cyrenian—Sappho colt, and the Soult—Curacoa colt. The following names have been claimed for tiie rising two year olds:—Cyrenian— Pikau coif. Miser l : Hotchkiss— First Love tiliy. Momc; Mensrhikoff Miss Quail colt, Le Masc< t: Beu Godfrey'- Prestissimo colt, BengoLn: Sa’vadan- Asthore filly. Colleen Dhas: Cyrenian Sparkling XX’ater colt. XVuiiuaramara: <)fib er -Lustrous lillv. Inatore. The A.R.C. Committee have derided to have the whole of the race tracks from the half-mile post to nearly the old mile post Jt veiled. In order to do this it will be necessary to shift the crossing from its present position to one about the eml of the picket fence. The course at the present crossing will have to b e lowued from a foot to 18 inches. The many friends of Mr A. Htixbes. the Mell known local horscowner. will regret to learn that he has not been enjoying the b< st of health lately,.and that acting under rhe advice of his medical advisers he intends entering the Cambridge Sanatorium for a few months. • He has the best wishes of all for a speedy recovery. Ihe handicaps for each of the principal events at the C.J.C. National Meeting are started on a much lower scale than has •wr been adopted by Mr lleniys. In 1!M»A h ?s Ses Plac'd higher in the Hm.He Race, in 1«n.3 five, and last rear two. |hr Steeplechase and XVinter Cun are in about the same proportion. It will be interesting to sei* the view owners will take Of the new departure of Mr Henrys. Acr.irding to fiirures compiled bv “Rentauraph of the -Weekly Press.- which have been shown to -Sir Bedevcre.” writer in the same paper. Mr G. G. Stead heads the list of winning owners for the last season, the amount won by his horses totting up to the l<u K e stun of £11.456. Stopniak v . a J, . successful sire, the progeny K<lill s horse winning in stakes ±.S<S.J. Malnitomra was the most sneecsstul stake erancr. his winnings amounting to the sum of £2!»77. I he following dates have been ullottid to the various Auckland clubs bv the Raring Conference: Avondale Spring. Kith. 2<»th. and 23rd September: Autumn, Marell 31. April 1: XX’inter. June 1C» ami 2n. Auckland Rming Club Spring. November 4. 9. 11; Summer. December 26. January 1 and and another day to bv yet derided upon: Al tunin April 14. IG, and 17: XX’inter. June 2. 4. and G. Takapuna Spring. November 25 and 29: Summer. January 27. 29. and February 3: XX’inter. May 19 and 21. i’apaLura Raring Club. February 12. Although there was nearly a record attendance at Chantilly on tile occasion of the decision of the French Derby last month, there' was a slight decrease in the day’s totalisator takings as compared with last year. The turnover was. in round figures. <CSS.IX.*». against X9G.S4G in 391)4. while tin* actual decrease in the amount invt sled over the Derby may be attributed to ihe fact that the bracketing of M. Michel Ephmssi’s three horses (of which the winner Finassrur was one), practically reduced the livid to half a dozen. The stable returned 5 to 2 for a win, and even money for a place at the -Mutuals.” Says the Paris correspondent of the “Sporting Times”: It is 17 years since an English jockey rode the winner of the Grand Prix de Parts. 1 use the word -English" in the sens' of our riding habitually tn England. not merely* English by birth. In the "sixties” and -seventies’’ Fordham. Tom Car.noii. and Archer were often in requisi-

tion. Woodburn rode Tinebreusp in 1889. Then Tommy Lane had his wonderful run, riding five winners in six years. Dodge, Rarlvn. W. I‘ratt (four winners), Rigby, and Stern came next. Now that the French stables retain the services of first-class jockeys there is no med to semi to England for a special jockey on special occasions. Says a writer -Ju the London “Sportsman” : The last “special” to Lingficld had just started moving as one of our best know u metropolitan handicappers, with a bag in one hand and a big mackintosh and a brolly in the other, came running anxiously along the mile-and-a-nuarter lit surely must be!) of platform at Xictorla. Seeing that the official was “all out” and sorely winded, a sympathetic person iu a corner seat would haw fiung open a friendly first class door, but that a certain small owner with a grievance stopped him. "No. no.” he growled, gripping the door, “let the blighter realise what it means to be stopped by overweight.’’’ One of the most unique bets recorded is the one made by Fi rd (’alter and Chris Doyle on rhe result of the Kentucky Derby. Mr Doyle spent the w'inter in New Orleans, and was of the opinion that Rain’s Horn held all other three-year-olds safe. Mr Carter had seen Agile run at Memphis, and stood pat on the statement that the brown ce’t was the first great three-year-old he had seen since Hindoo. There was no chance for them to agree in the ante-post argum«*nts, so they made a bet on Ram's Horn and Agile, the loser to buy drinks for rhe winner for the balance of the racing season at the Fair <1 rounds. Mr Doyle responds gamely whenever Mr Carter intimates that it is a long time between drinks, but he is wishing that his friend would take the Keeley cnie. An exchange says: It is the fact that after the race for the Derby an English owner made to M. Blanc an offer of £,15,oon for Jardy. and. furthermore, offered as a condition of the purchase that the horse should at once he scratched for.his I’rvm‘h engagements, so that he might not oppose other horses the property of : M. Blanc that are entered for those r.mes. The buyer would have had the St. Legcr amt two or three of the ten thousand pound races before him. hut his main object was to secure the blood, precisely as M... Biane had w’hrn he bought Firing Fox. and at once put him to the stud. M. Blanc declined to entertain the offer. whi?h is a bigger one than we would haw made.for a horse whose illness may or may not leave him a roarer. It takes a long purse to win th? Derby. Frequently an abnormal sum is given for a horse with a view to winning the Blue Ribbon of the Turf, and I can well remember two instances during th? last five years (says a “Tatler” gossip) where sums of £l(>.s(m» and £21.5(» were given for Derby candidates prior to the rave, ami neither of th. m ever ran. Supposing (if purchased and not heme bred) that tin* purchase monay of the Blue Ribbon candidate has amounted to the extremely modest sum of ,C2S«M). th ■ other items to be considered are: Training fees £200; entrance fee £SO; racing colours, saddlery, horse clorhing, ami travelling, expenses, say,- £6O; jockey’s fee. £5 5 : present to jockey (at least) £SOO (that is what tin King gave his jockeys); sundries. £150; total, £3465 5/. This is putting it moderately. On the second day of tin* XX’ellington XX’inter Meeting Cannie (’hivl. carrying 11.4. started second favourite in the Winter Oats Handicap, run over a mih . Then* were 16 runners. Six of those that compered in the race are engaged with him in the XX’inter Cup. which is run over th-? same distance. He meets Shrapnel Shell (the winner) on IGIb better terms, and the following horses who ran unplaced:—De la Rey on 91b. Sardonyx oa 71b. Lyrist on 71b. Ngatarua on 13ib, and St. Lyra" on 131 b. Of Id others which were also handicapped for the same race but did not conipi tc. he meets from IGlb down to 2lb better, and not in a single instance worse terms. Holden X’cin in the same stable, which did not run at XX’vllington. is set to meet Cannie Child on 21b worse terms, so evidently Mr Henrvs has assumed that Mr Chadwick s estimate «'f- Sir Geo. Clifford’s pair at Wellington was much too high. I he necessity of having thoroughbreds’ months examined by a horse dentist frequently has never been (says an English writer) more strongly shown than in a recent case of Ravin’s Pride. The male had been running away and raieering about iu in the most oriati? manner, and Major Beatty, enable to explain her conduct, summoned Robert Enoch, the horse dentist. to examine In r mouth. Mr Enoch at once discovered a fracture «.f the jaw' <»f long standing, ami suecerileil in extracting three pieces of hone, thoroughly delayed. upwaids of an i:i. h long. There is not a doubt that many horses suffi r tn a similar way from rough usage with the bir some time during their life, and constantly do we see horses, in Imrsey parlance. "running away from thi-ir bit.” The dangers of chucking a horse, as w<- often sec. cannot be too strongly impressed upon all stablemen. At Epsom. an eminent trainer told me (says "Ranger”) that he had a “welsher” running in a handicap. and that his state of mind was not exactly felicitous. “I am afraid to ba<k my horse,” he averrvtl, "and I dare not let

him run loose, so. between the two stools, I look like falling to the ground on its hardest spot on. record.” lie also mentioned that his candidate could win easily if he cared to do his best, but that, as a rule, he preferred to give a currish display in liarmonv with his nature. He was beaten bv a head in the race under notice, after obviously failing to struggle with the slightest gamcness: wherefore his proprietor offered to match him against another of the same species-at half a-inile downhill with inonkoy.-r up and “doped” to admiration the owner of the successful brute to take both horses. “No. no. dear sir.” cried the hero challenged, “I cannot accept your gallant offer, because I might win!” At the banquet after the English Derby given bv the King. I.ord (’oventiy, as Senior Member of the Jockey Club, presented to His Majesty a silver statuette of Persimmon. Our old men are young as compared with what they were not long ago. When the Duke of Kichniond and •I.c-rd Albigtoii were alive I.ord Coventry liad the appearance of being a mere boy. AVe recollect well, when ti*v announcement was made, some forty-five yeais ago. that he was about to embark on a racing stud, a prophecy made by “Punch.” It gave an anticipatory paragraph of what we should read of I.ord Coventry in about ten years’ time. In this, at any rate, “Punch” gave us a genuine laugh, as, like many other prophets, the prophecy went astray: ami even at this lapse of time there does not seem to be the slightest chance of its hi lug fulfilled. ‘•Punch" could not see sufficiency far into the futme to realise certain words that old Tom Olliver once addressed to I.ord Coventry. “1 tell you what it is. my lord." said Black Tom. “you ought to have been a poor man’s son!” “Why.” rejoined his lordship. “Because.” was the reply, “if you were to jump off London Bridge naked you would come up with a nice new suit of clothes on and a gold watch and chain." I.ord Rosebery has now been racing fur something like 36 years (says an exchange), nnd it may not be generally known that the devotion to the Turf was the cause of his leaving Oxford without a degree. His first racehorse, like his first Derby winner, was called Ladas, that being the name of •Alexander the (treat’s messenger, noted for his fleetness of foot. The authorities did not at all approve of an undergraduate possessing such an animal, and it is on record that on the Dean of Christ Church rt month rating with him on his predilection for racing and declaring that he must really <•hoo.se between Oxford or Newmarket, .young Rosebery quietly remarked. “Very .well. Mr Dean. I prefer Newmarket.” The first Ladas, however, proved a woful disappointment. as he finished nowhere in the Derby of IXG9 and won nothing but a match for a trifling stake-afterwards. Couronne de Fer. however, ran second to George Frederick in 1X74. Viscopdi was third to Sir Bevys and Palmbearer in 1X79. and Town Moor. ditto to Iroquois and Peregrine in 18X1. -Then . came Ladas’ and Sir Visto’s wins in 1894 and 1895. followed by Velasquez’s second to Galtee More in 1897. so taking one thing with another, the Primrose and Rose Hoops have been pretty prominent on Epsom Downs. The re -.•ent prosecution of two jockeys in England for cruelty to their mounts has attracted a considerable amount of attention, .. a nd has also .provoked a great deal of severe comment, says the English writer, “Ranger." But if one can clear the air just a little an. attempt is certainly desirable. As a matter of fact the majority of jockeys are too fond of horses to hurt them. Besides, having regard to the pr.iee.nt extraordinary scat in the saddle adopted by those artists, who amuse us Immensely . when „ they stand up in' t heir stirrups, it is difficult for them to administer much punishment, even if they were impelled to do so, and many of them might as well leave the whip at home. As to a budding Sloan—knees, up. crouch, and all—a trainer was pleased to be facetious this week when the youth began to i ide a desperate finish. “Ho is spurring the saddle flaps.” said that expert.-“he is beating the tiir, and he doesn’t hit hard enough to knock a fly off unless rhe insect had already partly lost his equilibrium." No cruelty was caused by that performance: many spectators enjoyed the joke. A nice sense of humour is an additional attraction when we- are barking winners with an unerring instinct which monarchs might envy. The notion, moreover, that spurs with sharp rowels are used by jockeys so as unmercifully to goad their horses on to victory -s erroneous. Generally speaking, those spurs are pretty harmless—often “dummies” in effect—and. even so, they are sparingly applied at the iast exigency. They represent pin-pricks rather than spur-pricks, and the pain is infinitesimal. Arthur Nightingall has ridden three Grand National winners without any of those horses showing a mark after the race! And. as for spurs, he used “dummies" each time. The whip question is also interesting and impoitant. Here, again, a good jockey exercises a most admirable discrimination. His bark is. so to speak, worse than his bile; he does not spoil the steed by too much rod: his “persuasion” is often of the mildest character. One rarely sees anything like a “good hiding” administered, and even in the case of a number of runners struggling home together—probably ridden by midgets who miss as often as they hit. and are not strong enough to Jwhhh anybody’s jacket—little hurt is sustained by any of those strenuous competitors. Th“y may blow a trifle after the race wud perspire freely: that is all. Archer’s celebrated “one-two” at a critical moment •was undoubtedly a very vigorous effort, an artistic accomplishment.'■ but it was not superfluously displayed. Nor is it so by any Of the first class jockeys, who iecognise jWlien their horse is beaten, and. as the saying is. drop their hands. “If I had not lost my whip,’’ a jockey once told me. ‘I Should have probably lost the race, if .not •Dv ifublemLsliAii character, and. what else Went fioiu me would not have been of the

slightest use even in a home for stuffed images.” He had dropped his whip whilst coining round the iast bend, whence he had ridden straight in with hands and heels (spurless), winning, after a magniticeut finish, by a head. • 1 Duses ' swefve sometimes when, in colloquial phrase, a jot-key “gets his bat up.” and prospects of success are thus jeopardised-. There* is also a story about an old trainer who. after l.is apprentice had weighed out to ride the favourite, took both whip and spurs from him.- remarking, “and if 1 could lake your head fiohi you, my lad. you would not be much worse off in an intellectual capacity;” The boy’s brain was not robust. vet lie seemed tn ride well ’mechanically, ami many line horsemen are brighter in the pigskin than in the boudoir. That they arc apt to be cruel in either departmentstudy their size—is a mistaken idea. Some commentaries on the bookmakers’ strike, from the “Sydney Daily Telegraph:”— “Nine out of every ten bookmakers are stone motherless broke.” "It isn’t bookmaking now. It’s a gamble-. A ‘bookmaker’ exists in name only. He’s a punter half his time.” “They say if you field against every horse in a race you ••an’t lose. Can’t you? I know. I’ve tried it.” "The biggest battlers are the worst off. Look at Blank. He always laid a bit over ‘he odds. The hardheads got him quick ami lively. Now ho hasn’t a feather to fly w'»th.” “The A.J.C. has been offered £IO,OOO yearly for the betting rights. I’d guarantee to float in five minutes a company that would give them £15.(100.” “If bookmaking was abolished what would ‘the Tommies’ do for a crust ? Well some of ’em would go back to their old game- sidling second hand clothes in Baddy's Market.” “The bookmaker puts his wife in the dress circle. M’ne’s lucky if she gets into the gallery.” -T like the smell of good cigars. I buy them often. The bookmaker puffs them. I stand in the smoke.” “Tin* bookmaker travels first class. T go second class because there’s no third.” “To be successful a bookmaker does not need brains. The lack of them in other persons ensures him a good living.” “Bookmakers make money right enough. Some of them lose it at rhe card tables afterwards. Then they are pointed to as a proof that bookmaking doesn’t pay.” “How many professional’punters’in Australia have’made £20.1)00 and stuck to it? You could count them on one hand- Finally. the bookmakers get it all, and more mugs come up to be fleeced." “An appeal in Charity’s cause was never made to a bookmaker in vain. Bookmakers as a class give more money away than any other body.” Wonderful indeed were tin* prices fetched in the selling races nt Harpenden last Saturday, the three winners bringing over 200 guineas apiece. quiFe the antithesis of a little-hunt meeting of which Mr Arthur Binstead (otherwise known as “Pitcher,” of the “Pink ’l’n”) writes in his ’atest book. "Mop Fair” (Samis and Co., London ami Edinburgh)—a volume which is just about the best of the many cheery volumes that have come from the pen of this rollicking raconteur. After the winner of the Selling , Tittrdle Race had been disposed of for 05 guiucas, another runner was fetched into the ring. “Now, gentlemen." cried the auction person. -‘I claim your attention to Little Breeches, by Gumsucker out of Sewing Girl, by Gozo, by Wild Oats. A nice handy animal, gentlemen, and one that is sure to pick. up a perfect roll of money this winter. He’s in the Sluggards’ Plate at Sundown Park next Tuesday" at a nice weight, ami only needs keeping up to concert pitch; now. what may I say for him?" But answer there came none. “Come, gentlemen, come,” rated the auctioneer in a tone of astonished reproach, “it only wants one of you to give me a start: may I put him in at five guineas? Walk him round again. Williams. A great slashing colt like this—he was fairly oil terms with the winner at the last hurdle —and five guineas only bid. Five —live in two places—six. thank you. sir. Six guineas only for Little Breeches! About a tenth of what he’d fetch to pull an omni bus! Seven, seven —against you. sir. at seven eight. And eight I’m only offered. Have you all done at nine, thank you, nine: may I make it ten for you. sir? — Ten— going at ten.” But even as the auctioneer hung upon his own words, there came running from the innermost recesses of the refreshment room a burly, fatherly man of fifty, who had the hansom-cab industry stampci indelibly all over him. . Ducking beneath the railings, and entering the sale ring, he stooped and ran his critical right-hand Angers up ami down the forelegs of Little Breeches. “What’s this one. mister?” he asked the auctioneer. “Little Breeches, sir. by Gumsmker out of Sewing Girl,” replied the alert salesman, and it’s against you at ten. Now have you all done at ten ” “AND SIX!" advamed the representative of the Shoful Trust, with the guileless air of one who halls from near to natur«*’s heart, and in two ticks he was being roughly hustled towards the bleak high road by a posse of the pantomimic pensioners done up in football pads, known as the racecourse police. Mr Henrys duly declared the weighty for the three principal events at the ('.J.(\ National meeting on Monday. In the Xleeplechase Kiate.re. 12.5. figures at the head, ami on his performance has been given a great chance. Slow Toni, U.S. ‘and’ Haydn, ILS. are both in their right place, although or. the Auckland running Havdn is badly treated in comparison with Nnr’-West. On the concluding day of the A.R.C’. summer meeting Nor’-Wcst easily, defeated Haydn at a Jiffeience of 121 b. how there is a stone between them. Phaetonitls, 10.11, Is a horse that Is welt

spoken of, and although vote! very backward. ran a good rave at Wellington. By the time the National is decideil lie is expected to be in his best form. Mr Lowry's pair, (’omfort and (’rcusot. are belli niedy plarod. Mr.Henrys and Mr Chadwick sev..i pretty divided in their opinions of Creusot. Chadwick, in casting his handicap foi the Wellington Steeplechase, put ( rcusot with 1i 31b of Kiatere. (’rcusot did not st i t (owing to an accident), and Kaitere w<>:i. Air Henrys makes a difference of 24ibs between them. If Mr Chad wick’s estimate if anything near correct. Mr Henrys may have cause for iegret at treating him with such leniency. Of course, it has to 1h« vi»nsi<lered that Cieusot’s accident at Wellington is one that may come against him at any time, so backers would do well to wait further advices before supporting him. Of those lower down the list. Nor’West. Waitarere, ami liiniskillen are the only ones 1 have any fancy for. To sum up at this early stage, probably the winner will come from Kiaterei Haydn. I’hacto’.itis. Creusot. Nor’-West. or Inniskillcii. In the Hurdle Race. Romeo amt Convoy are at the head of the list with ILu apiece. I think 1 am pretty safe in saying that never In the history of New Zealand has a Grand National event been started on sii'h a light scale. Mr Henrys is evidently of the opinion that he had a very moderate lot to deal with. Both the top weights are maidens over fences, but are fairly good perfouners on the flat, ami have nothing to complain of on the score of weight. Convoy is. however, reported amiss, and is a doubtful starter, but Romeo Is stated to be getting through his schooling in great style, and all going well in the meantime is almost certain to see the post. The Mohican. 10.13, seems harshly treated, and more to my liking is (’rcusot on the same mark. Fit and well on the day Creusot will take a power of beating. Trumpery, 10.9. has been very disappointing of late, but there seems i probability of her improving on her recent essays. Comfort. 10.7. and Cavalry. 10.3. must both be given a •chance, and of those lower down Waitarere and Lady I lune read the best. Those I have at present most fancy for are Romeo, (’rcusot. Trumpeiy. Cavalry. Waitarere, and Lady Hum*. ® © ©