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NOVEL SPORT—A GOAT HUNT

... NOVEL SPOTr-A GOAT IIUNT. On the 1st instant the echnes of the beetling !S ?? of Gamrie Hlead ' were warked up by the baying m .e of dog9s, the firing, of ginls, and all the exciteiment n nf a regular hurit Frum ini early hour in the morni- by ing till nearly dasl; upivards of a score of men might bi m- he seen scrambling along the rooks overhanging the ta to seni and every now and then a ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTE IISALL'S-TnUaSDAY. With tlre single exceptiotu of Cheerfil, on whom a goed deal of moiney was laid out at 4 to 1, iO to 3, ard. -5 to '2 ror the llytrapolitan Handicap, tle favourites for the ,spring enigaemn'C lts wore ocorcely enctioned; tho select few covre baeked for mere trifles. The Derby betting s was limiled to three or four. 6to I agst Duke of lichmeond's ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... COVENTRY STEEPLE CHASES AND HURDLE RACES-TUeSDAY. The Selling lf-rdle Race off5 s9ve eaei, 3 ft. with 25 irdded.. Won byr Mr. Johrison's Sorah Sykes beatihn Wiseacre, and Vaut Rioe. The Craven Steeple Chose, an open handicap of 20 sove each, It ft. anl 5 only ifi declared, with 100 added- Won by Mr. Vever's Vcngeance besting Chliildler, The Victim, Farnham, ard Sir Petcr Laurie. An ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... SPQRTING INTEUIOENCE, EPSOM RACES, WO5E I)EUIJY. By snidnday on Wedlnesday, EpsOm was so conpletely llooked up that, although the betting fraternity assem- bled, as of old, opposite the Eagle, the trausaction of bu- siness to any extent vas out of the qucstion. The crowd was prodigious, extending from the eommencement of the rails to, and some distance round Tnttenham-coroer, filling up the ...

DOLGELLEY CRICKET CLUB

... The Members of the above Club having received S challenge from the Barmouth gentlemen, the matcht came off at Dolgelly, on the 10th inst., Dolgelley win- ning with four wickets to go down. The Barmouth side going in first. The score stood as followrs- BARMOU' 'H SIDE.! F. Atkinson b Williams J. 0. Jones a J. S. Jones, b.Hewgill -Capel I c wicket, b Pewgill ?? -Ironmonger c J. S. and b Williams ...

VARIETIES

... VARIMITIES. A match at cricket came off at Sutton ?? on Tuesday last which caused much amusement. The f competitors were two females, one married and the other single, and the single beat, being scored one ntch, and the married none. A young soldier ofthe 24th R egiment, named Lomond, wwho enlisted shortly after the revolution of February, has blen condemned to death by a court-martial, for ...

CARNARVON REGATTA

... The festivities in connection with the Carnarvon Regntta vwere opened on Wednesday evening by n most brilliant display of fireworks in tile Old Castle, under the superintendenee of Mr. Atkins, an eminent pyro- technic artist from the Liverpool Zoological Gardens. The Castle walls were illuminated, and flights of beau- tiful-coloured rockets, bouquets of shells, and other mechanical dlesiigs ...

WILD SPORTS IN ALGERIA

... M. Jules Gerard, the well-knowii ilon-killer of Algeria, has jnat sent the following account of a, recent exploitto the editor of the JAurrjal des Chasseurs:- I knew of a large old lion in the Sinauls country and betool myself in that direction. On arriving I heard that he was in the Bonariftl neai Bitnah. IMy tent was not yet pitched at the 'foot of the mountain when I learned that he was ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... TiE CaASE.-Sir IV. W. Wynn's hounds meet oni Monday, Dtll instant, at Cloverley; Wednesday, 11th, at Aston; Friday, 13th, at Carden Saturday, 14th, at eniley Hall. Each day at half-past Teo. IBAL,%,-This siall place, poor looking and weather beaten as it is doing the eight moniths out of the twelve that the wind comes with an unceasing roar from the dreary ?? over the noble lake, has yet stout ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... SPORTING INTELLIGE!TCE. Sir IV. IV. 'Vynin's hounds will mneet on Monday, Dec. 3;tll ?? Chirk Castle Tueiday, 31st ?? . Otcley Park Friday. January3rd . Dorjatoi Park Saturday, 4th ?? i , Llanypwil Sac, L day at balf-past 'lon o'clock. Mr. Peers Williams' hounds will meet on Tuesday, January 1 st ?? ?? Gerwen ill Thursday, 3rd ?? Llanddyfaan Western Gate Saturday, 6th ?? . ?? Dragon Hill Each ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... Sir It. M1. Vvnl'as hounds will meet on ,ouday Jan. 13 ?? Devil's Elbow, near WVlittinrton wednesday, 15th ?? ?? Friday 17th ?? Oteley Park e Saturday, 18th ?? .r 'ortheubury Each day at ]half-past Ten o'clock. t TATTERSALL' ?? ?? Cup:- h 2.5 to 1 agst Rhesus ; G0 to I agst Scaman-.Derby:- 33 to I agst Runnymede ; 20 to 1 agst Constellation and I, iarlborough BuIck; and 51 to 1 agst ...

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, cc Sir W. VW. Wt'nn 'aS holli ds will meet on Monday 10h .Wisrgo Bl liday 0ti ?? ?? ?? L - BrlitiD por ednesday, Jt] ?? lia'vkstonc Thursdy lth ?? Bride Saturday, 13th . O sastve~5 Race Course of E ach day at half-paqt 'Ion o'clolck II TII 1,000 Sov3. M'ATCt.-Jn tile great match at York betweell those celebrated horses, the Flying' D)utchman and nVoltigeur, the former ...