... WINTER RACING IN NATAL. THE ANTI-GAMBLING BILL. THE first winter fixture of the Durban Turf Club con cluded with all records broken in the matter of attend ance, totalisator receipts, the excellence of the racing, and the class and quality of the cattle engaged. The meeting occupies three days in July, and the total stakes offered aggregated about £7,500. During the three days the totes took ...

... THE HURST PARK MEETING.-- THE CHAMPION SPRINT HANDICAP, &c. 1. .1. J. Joyner, Mediant's trainer. 2. About to unsaddle Mr. J. Buchanan's Diamond Stud after his victory in the Hurst Park Lennox Plate. 3. Mediant O'Neill uu) return in (j to scale. 4. the Champion Sprint Handicap finish. Mediant wins from Galleot, Prospector, Me. 5. The finish of the Yurie r Handicav.--Mr. Buchanan's 1 emeraire ...

... WILL SHE CLEAR AN ANXIOUS MOMENT IN A RACE. --Drawn by C. Fleming Williams. A big yacht, race is always a tremendous tax on the nerves, but at no moment is it greater than when, in tacking, it is necessary to cross and recross the hows of Other yachts. The slightest error of judgment may result in a big accident, and there is often just one anxious minute when it is almost impossible to tell ...

... THE EAMOOK PONY SHOW AT LYNTON, IN DEVON. (See article on next page.) 1. Judging Class 2,- Exmoor mares. 2. Ponies awaiting the judge. 3. The ball and basket contest. 4. Mr A Molland's Krmnnr r i m c 5. Mr. Palmer', yearling, 1st in Class 3. 6. Mrs. Berwick (who distributed the prizes), with a typical E^^y^Tp^i^'ciA Trudging. ...

... . 1. Lady de Rothschild's Jersey Cow, Lady Phyllis, 1st and champion in Jerseys, and gold medal for butter test. 2. .1/r. II'. .1/. Cazalet's Shorthorn Cow, Queen Anne, 1st and champion for Shorthorns. 3. Mr. C. 11. Harris's Shire Gelding, Humpty Dumpty II., 1st and champion in local classes. 4. II. M. the King's Dexter Cow, Compton Daphne, 1st. 5. Driving slurp through cross hurdles in the I ...

... LIVE OS I HE OCEAN WAVE.-- AS DEPICTED BY A YACHTSMAN'S KODAK. -k Water. 5. .1 fair, following breeze. Setting, the spinnaker. (..Tninndownn reel in mainsail. ...

... U MDLLE PROVOST, Of the Com I die Fran^aisc. 2. MA SI GYAWt The Mandalay actress and dancer. 3. ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO,'' At the Empire Theatre. 4. MISS MARIE DAINTON. 5. MISS OLGA DESMOND. 6. MISS ANNIE HUGHES. ...

... Tbe Sportswom^P The number of people who break in and school not only their hunters, but also their carriage horses themselves, instead of employing the professional, is increasing yearly. Apparently it has been discovered at last that to break in a colt is not so formidable a task as at one time was imagined. Ladies in particular are becoming very enthu siastic about the work. They find it a ...

... THE LEWES SUA1A1ER MEETING. 1. The finish of the Club Oven Bonn Welter 2. The, Juvenile Selling Plate finish, won by Surgeon-Captain jj lacCabe1 s Slieve Bawn. j -i 3. Wolfe Jjand winnina the Aslleu Stakes. 4. Stanley foottow unsaddling Billhead, the winner of the De Watrenne Handicap (S. II ootton had been rather badly thrown during a trial Itiz J' 1 ,b- Biddiards Wolfe Land, by St. Frusqum ...

... RINGS ON HER FINGERS AND BOWS ON HER HOSE I BOW STOCKINGED MISS ANNA HELD IN THE 44 VERY LATEST. The lace-insertion stockings and the tassel led stockings have another rival in the form of the stockings here shown* worn by pretty Miss Anna Held, hose that are ornamented with a series of little tows, placed one above the other.- ^Photo^rafhs by £(utling(r,\ ...

... Ih C KTOOTES i- -s Dr. Joachim's Legacy. One of the most interesting series of concerts yet arranged for the autumn season is that of the Classical Concert Society. The society was born of the Joachim Concerts Committee, which itself sought to develop and carry 011 the great work that Joachim started forty years ago in Berlin, and introduced much later into London. The interpretation of ...

... TH^MAN-'ON^> The Lamp Trials Successful 1 The report of the judges appointed by the Royal Automobile Club to act in the pressing matter of the Tests of Headlights for Motor-Cars and Motor-Cycles, carried out at the request of the Local Government Board, was issued last Wednesday. I can confidently recommend it to the perusal of all motorists. The tests have gone far to prove that the dazzling ...