CHRISTCHURCH. Ist April.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 384, 2 April 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH. Ist April.

The betting on the Great Autumn Haodicap is as follows : — 3 to 1 against Camballo, 5 to 1 against Mata, 5 to 1 against Natator, 7 to 1 against Nemo, Foul Play, Laertes, Orange Lightning, Vampire. Double betting on the Autumn Handicap and Champagne Stakes, 100 to 4 to 100 to 8, according to fancy. Bstting on the Champagne Stakes— so to 20 on the field, St. George aad Marie Autoine .te finding a few supporters York met with an accident in his box this morning by striking himself. He is so much hurt that it is very improbable be will start for any of his engagements at the coming autumn meeting. At a meeting of the suburban district of Kingstown this evening a resolution was passed asking the Road Board to reduce the rates from one shilling, as proposed, to 6d. The Chairman of the Board said the object of proposing the Is. rate was to get as much as possible from the Government, who, it was thought, would shortly withdraw the £1 for £1 subsidies. The number of claims to vote sent in amount to 454, vix. :— City of Christ^hurch, 179; Coleridge, 157 ; Selwyn, 28; Heathcote, 60 ; Avon, 29. There are sixteen cases up to the present fjt the criminal sittings ou Monday. The calendar comprises larceny, forgery, fraudulent bankruptcy, and indecent assaults. 2nd April. A curious case was heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. Patrick Foley was brought up for dessrting his wife. Mrs. Foley stated that she merely wanted to get him back again, but in laying the information she had in her agitation given tbe impression that her husband had left her destitute, which was not the case. She merely wanted him back, and desired to withdraw the information. His Worship allowed this to be done, after cautioning the complainant. Mr. E. Recce's stables, in the suburbs, were burnt down this morning. The* loss is estimated at £300. The building was not insured. -

What he Got.—" What did you get ?" asked one tramp of the other, who had been Into The house after " vittles."—" I got suthin ?» was the reply.—" What was it ?"-eagoriy inquired the • expectant one.—" A cold shoulder I" bitterly rejoined the other, as he tramped on.