CHRISTCHURCH. 24rd August.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1876, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH. 24rd August.

The football team left by the Hawea for Auckland this afternoon. The following letter, published in the Times this morning, -will give the best idea of the merits of the team: — •' To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times.— Sir,— l hope the public will not infer from the letter of your correspondent, ' Scarlet and Black,' that we are sending an indifferent team to Auckland. The team is undoubtedly good from top to bottom, if there be any extremes in such a body. It is certainly not as good a team as we could bring together ou our own ground, but I do not think we can expect as a rule to send away a better team for so long an absence. I hope also that the public will not think that the Football Club desire to join in any remarks reflecting on the ' public spirit ' of our mercantile firms. We are quite satisfied that leave of absence would be granted to one or two of our best men who remain behind, if it had been at all possible. So that, while we regret their absence, we by no means complain, or consider that our mercantile firms are less liberal than those of Auckland would be under similar circumstances. — I ani, &c, R. J. S. Harman, President C.F.G." Edmund Hastie recently a member of the Christchurch police force, was sentenced to six month's imprisonment, with hard labor, to-day, for stealing jewellery and articles of wearing apparel from his comrades at the Christchurcli depot.