The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-24 00:00:00

ARISTOCRATIC PIGEON SHOOTING,

There was a large assembly of aristocrats, and a far
larger number of the general public, at the Welsh Harp,
Hendon, on Saturday, the attraction being " The Summer
Handicap," Mr. Frank Heathcote being the handicapper.
Tho card, on the usual conditions, had 104 entries on it,
but only 36 of that number came to the post, the aggregate
number cf shooters, however, was 43, as 7 post catered.
As usual, Mr. Warner made every necessary arrangement.
The afternoon was exceedingly fine and quiet, but the birds
were not of the first class.

The shooters were :—Mr Berkeley Lucy, Captain Starkey
(post entry), Mr Monkton (post entry), Mr Henry Budd,
Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., M.P., Sir C. Legard, Bart., and
Mr C. Hammersley, killed six birds each ; Mr K. Peach,
Mr W. St. Julien Arabin, Captain A. L. Ricardo, Mr.
Robertson (post entry), Mr Forster (post entry), Mr Ernest
C. Nevile (post entry), Mr E. H. Maxwell, Mr. H. J.
Shelden, Sir Walter Carew, Bart., Hon. Reginald Capel,
and Mr W. Duncombe killed four each ; Mr H. Allgood,
Colonel Fellowes, Colonel the Hon. H. Annesley, M.P.,
Mr. George Johnstone, and Mr. George Thompson killed
three each ; Mr. Charles Hambro, Sir Charles Mordaunt,
Bart., M.P., Mr. N. Wood, Mr. W. Harrison (post entry),
Le Comto de Gondre, and the Hon. Walter Verney (pos
entry) killed two each; Captain J. J. W. Fredricks, Mr.t
Frederick Norris, Colonel Fraser, Mr. S. Bateson, Sir
Henry Pottinger, Bart., Mr. J. Jeo, V.C.C.8., Mr. Clarke
Thornhill, Mr. J. Tharp, and the Marquis of Graham only
killed one each; Captain Baskervillo, Mona G. Andre,
Captain Bland, Captain Arthur Burnand, and Viscount
Holmesdale, M.P., did not kill. Of course all did not shoot
at six birds.
Seven of the competitors having therefore killed all their
birds, had to shoot for the prizes. Mr. Berkeley Lucy killed
his first, but Mr. Rudd's bird, though hit hard, fell just out
of bounds. Sir Thomas Hesketh, Sir Charles Legard, and
Mr. Hammersley failed to score; while Captain Starkey
and Mr. Monkton, by killing, had to shoot again. At the
second attempt they failed, so that Mr. Berkeley Lucy,
who killed, became the winner of the first prize. The two
"lost entries," after again trying, settled their respective
superiority, Captain Starkey by killing his second bird, an
example Mr. Monkton failed to follow.

THE SCORE roil. TIIE TIES WAS :
Mr. Berkeley Lucy 1 1 First prize, £l2O.
Captain Starkey (post entry) 1 0 1 1 Second prize, £6O.
Mr. Monkton (post entry) lO 1 0 Third prize, £25.
Mr. Henry Rudd, Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., M.P.,
Sir Charles Legard, Bart., and Mr. C. Hammersley did not
kill.

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" A rumour that the wife of a duke and the wife
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The yacht Henrietta, the winner of the ocean
race, arrived at New York on the Bth of June, having
made the voyage in 32 days and 11 hours. The Hen-
rietta encountered heavy weather during nearly the whole

passage.
THE GROUSE INS EASE.—There can be little if any
doubt that the grouse disease is still doing its fear-
ful work of destruction. The pestilence has lately raged
amongst the grouse upon moors that up to a very recent
period were quite exempt from it. We have no hesitation
in saying that this rapid propagation of the malady must
be attributed to contagion, for in no other way can we
satisfactorily account for its spreading, now that the pre-
disposing causes which originally produced it are at an
end. We have fine weather and an abundance of healthy
food. We again advise all gentlemen who are owners of
grouse moors to cause the birds that perish to be carefully
collected and buried deeply in the earth. It is with sorrow,
too, we learn that the malady has commenced to seize
with its deadly gripe upon the black game, birds that
have hitherto been free from any trace of this pestilence.
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one of some importonce. Dr. Harris, addressing theNaenwd
York Board of Health, says that scientific chemists
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which
f infection it is almost im-
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