CHESS AHD DRAUGHTS. POETS' CORNER i The Singer's Alms. Wee Nellie, the Woolwich Maiden. Write Them a Letter To-night. THEATRICAL) Note 3by " Pasquin." The Stage in Australia. Notes by " Scalfax." CRICKET : Notes by " Slip." FOOTBALL: Notes by " Forward." AQUATICS. LAWN TENNIS. THE lUDDLER. LAND &.8V WATER. SPORTING: Racing Fixtures. Answers to Correspondents. Notes by " Beacon." New South Wales Sporting Notes by "Warrior." Canterbury Spirting Notes by " Rata." Anecdotes of Sport and Sportsmen. An English Jockey's Experience. Mr T. Osborne Interviewed by "Rata." Racing in England: Lincoln Spring, North ampton and Pytchley Hunt, Epsom Spring, Newmarket Craven. South Canterbury Autumn Meeting. A.J.O. Autumn Meeting. Australian. English and Foreign. Uac'ing in. New Zealand. THE RING: Heavy-weights at War-. Matthews Wrests the Championship from Grady. HUNTING -. Otago Hounds. COURSING: Canterbury Coursing Notes by " Salaman der." FARM: English and Scotch Stallion Shows, ISSIi Successive Wheatgrowing. Sheepfarniing Prospects. Seasonable Notes. Farm Notes : Our Land Laws. The Rabbit Pest. Topographical Grouping of Various Breeds of Sheep. The Jersey. Effects of Feeding Ensilage. Butterine in America. Current Topics. THE GARDEN: Show Fixtures. Answers to Correspondents. The Cyclamen. Calendar. SUPPLEMENT : Our London Letter. Our Scotch Letter. Spare Half-hours: Some Amusing Deriva tions bj' Hy. Lapham. The Traveller: A Day on Catlin's River, by " M. C. G." Over the Skippers Track to the Phoenix Mine. San Francisco Mail. Ac. tic THE MINES. THE COUNTRY. PASSING NOTES. • NOTES AND QUERIES. And THB WHOLK NKV7S OF THK WEEK. Medical, BR S P E E R'S Private Dispensary, Westminster Cham bers, 36 Lambton Quay, Wellington, opposite New Zealand Clothing Factory. Established for the Scientific and Speedy Cure of Chronic, Nervous, and Special Diseases. Dr Speer is a Regular Graduated Physician, educated at Harvard College, U.S. Ho haß devoted a lifetime to, and is acknowledged to be the mo3t expert Phyßieian in his specialty in the United States. Young Men and Middle-aged Men who suffer from Nervous and Physical Debility, Loss of Euergy and Memory, Eruptions on the Face, Mental Depression, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Paralysis, Fits, Spinal Disease, St. 