MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1259, 16 April 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is currently reported (says the Napier Telegraph) that the late-Mrs Foster held very "low church'! 1 views and that in .her will, though leaving all her. . prppersy to the Church irf England,* she stipulated that no |J4B& of^worshfp, sha)l .derive any benefit from, her beqneste. -where surplices are ,Worn>..v>!; :;■■:. .•■-■• • ' • By the death of Captain Standish the Australian turf has saya " Augur,?* lostone of its ablest men. . For years he had been one of the leading spirits of ; tiie.yictpria. Racing Club, and qpder' ;his guidance the institution has become what it now is.. , He. waa among the., first to .prpppse, the -abolition of the rival, turf and jockey clnbsandthp estabiahment pi a -flew , club to be called the Victoria Racing Club. He was pne of ,its first .officials, and ion' the day of his death he. waa chairman of the committee. Until lately, when his brain began to betray symptoms of weakness, hejwas foremost in the turf, council of this.colony«;and by his death the V.R.G.. suffers a lost which it will be difficult, to repair.. Captain*Standish was a devoted lover of the turf, and in his day owned several horses, the best, perhaps, being Queen of Hearts, who ran second to Tim Whiffler for the Melbourne Gup of 1867. Had Mr De Mestre'g golden : skinned bay been -an absentee that day, the decease gentleman would have handled a big stake* In his racing ventures fortune did not. smile kindly, upon him, and for a long time,he . has. been. kn,own to be in ( a declining, state; qi- health. His fajooiiar figure. will be; sadly ., missed at the headquarters of ratfingjcwhere his advice was always looked up to with.