COURSING.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1905, Page 2

COURSING.

-» RESULT OF TITR WATERLOO CUP. fny TKtKOturu — muss association.] DUXKDIN, 29th April. The Waterloo Cup coun<ing meeting was concluded to-duy. Remits : — Waterloo Cup. — Kinal: R. 11. and J. W. Price's r d Faugh-a-buUagh, by Ilex — Frisky Lass, beat 0. R. Wise's fab Sweet Tono, b*y Megaphone — Federation, and won the stake. Purse. — Jume» Smart's bl d Kioto, by Minstrel Boy — Black Bess, beat Price's br d Lord of tho Isles, by Opera— Cushla, and won tho sl.ike. Plato. — Irving Bros.' br d Locket, by Lord RoberUs--Mntlock, beat P. Aitkeu's r b Queen of Diamonds, by Kihnainham —Tnrnnn's Pride, and won the stake. Supplementary Stake— Smith and Tnylor's b w d Putty, by Gamester— Knte Kearney, be.al W. Smith's b w b Lady Molly, by Black SUir— Doelress.

The Nationalists in Ireland arc conducting a remarkable war against tho administration of tho alien. Tho Gaelic League, which seeks to develop the Irish language, has directed its members to send all their correspondence and parcels through the post addressed in Gaelic, with Irish characters. Early this week (says a London correspondent, writing I on I6ih March), just beforo lite- mail left Dublin for Englnnu, three hundred persons presented parcels at the Postoffice addressed h\ Irish. Penny stamps woro demanded in Irish, more or loss imperfect, and in many cases sovereigns were offered in payment, tho object b--ing to causo delay, so that tho departure of tho mail might bo very late. A fresh campaign is being started to promote a language which can benefit nobody who cares to do business out of Ins own parish; and in "language week" an effort will bo made to fill the mails with lettors addressed to everybody possible in Irish. That language is very interesting to students, but it is not likely to increase tho trado or commerce of the people who persist in keeping it alive by such childish methods as those of th« Gaelic League. The. old debate about firing a, candle through a pine board wns recently revived by an American new.Tpaj.ier. One man tried it and failed. Another writes: "We selected as target a weather-beaten fence of pine boards, nnd loading our fourteengaugo Miotgun with about three drami of black powder, dropped in a. candle which fitted the bore closely, and blazed away. Tho distance from the fence was about ten feet, and the candle was the kind known as 'steariue.' The cttndlo had made tv fairly elenn hole through the board, which was from seven-eighths to ono inch thick, and buried itself in a sAnd bank behind, from which we afterwards dug it out, (.omewhat demoralised, but V>tUl in tho ring.' There were some splinters torn from tho back of tho board and traces of candlo ajjout the hole."