Canterbury,

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 455, 23 November 1864, Page 4

Canterbury,

: T-HS Champion Race. —The Lyttelton Times of the Bth says, we have great pleasure in ljouciug the arrival of some more horses for this event—horses which are not only new chums to our course but almost to all New Zealand. The horses in question have not as yet been permanently located, so we will at present content ourselves with giving but a brief “ notice of them—attempting in no manner to. thrust forward any opinion whatever as to their relative merits. Suffice it at this moment, to say that our new visitors come from fine stock, and do look, Judging fi > om-i3v---.~ppeaxajiCP J _as—i£_t.iey_ would detract from the credit of f heir several family trees. The first we,would notice is the brown colt Elswick, 3 years old by Dr. O’Toole; dam Fraulein, by De Reuter. He is a fine uj),standing horse of about 16 bands or a little over. He fcomes from the Rawcliafe stud neighbours, as most home readers will remember, of York ; and be is by no ' means an unworthy representative of that fine stock: He is a candidate for Cnauipion honours, as isthechesnut three-year-old filly Mary Avenel, by Lord Faulconberg ; dam, Tib Tacket, by the ILnight of A venel. Mary Avenel is a really 'pretty filly promising well ; her darn, Fraulein, being'one of Lord Zetland’s well-known stud, and over 600 guineas was given for her by her noble owner. | The "third, a chesnut filly, Sweatmeab, by r j3ugarplum, dam Yerbena by Slave, is a promising young thing, though almost untried, - and was bred by Lord Anuesly a well known - sporting man of Ireland. Mr. Hatfield left England in June, 1863 in the ship Affiance, with four horses, one of them, and this one he considered the best of all, dying on the passage. She was a bay yearling filly by the Lord of the Isles out of the Queen of May and for which Mr. Hatfield had paida. long price. On Saturday lust an interesting event in the annals of boat building in this province took place by the launching of a new four-oared racing gig. Her length over all is 26fb, and about 2ft 4iu iu beam, her outward covering is eutirely a of strong zinc prepared and moulded for the purpose ; her interior fittings are of cedar and for about 2ft. Gin. from the bow to •storn she has air tight compartments filled with bladders to give her buoyancy. Report speaks favourably of the new boat. — LytiellO’i Times, Nov. 8. Philosophical Institute. —The adjourned meeting of this body was held last night in the Provincial Geologist’s rooms, Government Buildings. The attendance was by no means-so numerous as might .have been expected, seeing that the President read a paper, and a-very interesting one it was too, on the Pleistocene period •in' New Zealand There was the additional attraction of a paper by Mi. W. L. Boiler, whose reputation as a naturalist is so well known, on two species of New .Zealand bii’ds.— Standard, Nov. 8. Three men, of a party of nine diggers who were returning overland from the West Coast to Christchurch were dx'owned in attempting to cross the Teremakau "which was flooded. Another of the party is supposed to have been lost in the bush. The names of the drowned were Thomas Whatton, John Brown and Geo. Jaickman.