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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 211, 20 October 1888, Page 3

A Wellington paper says :—Some confusion arose over the pannelling of the jury in tha Supreme Court. A man named James Osborne failed to answer to his name, and after a jury of twelve had been empannelled, His Honor stated his intention of fining Osborne 40s for non-attendance. A man named Walter King then put in an appearance, and apologised for being late, but it was found that a juror had already been sworn in under that name. It was, however, ultimately found that the missing juror, James Osborne, being a little deaf, had come forward and been sworn in as Walter King. The latter was therefore excused, and the fine against Osborne remitted.

“ The number of horses now on the turf,’ says “ Rapier,” in the Sporting and Dramatic News, “ that run in cowardly fashion is very large, in all likelihood comparatively much larger than formerly. I was asking Tom Cannon the other day for his experience of the matter, and also for an explanation, and he suggests a very simple and probable cause. There is much more racing than there was formerly, horses run oftener, they are consequently tried oftener, and the result is that they got siok of racing. They know, in most cases, what a finish means ; very likely a dig with the spur if it is a close thing j at the lightest two or three smart outs with the whip—the old butcher boy flogging jockey is not common in England, though he is nearly the rule in France—and almost invariably a more or less desperate and distressing effort. Who can doubt many of them know also that if they do not get too near the state of affairs, but take it quietly and stay with the ruck, the finish will be much easier ? Very likely the jockey will only ride with his hands ; at any rate if he takes up his whip and there is no response, in many cases he will give it up as a bad job. Horses, as a rule, so much about racing that they are apt to de cline to race. ” A mutiny occurred among the troops at Portobello Barracks, Dublin, on Sunday, 16th September. Exasperated by the treatment, the men attacked the quarters of Major Whitely and other offers. They destroyed all the furniture, and took the Major’s portrait into the yards, where they in upon a pile of blazing goods. Five oi the rlßgleadrs have Men aneeted* x