INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 659, 7 November 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

CiiRisTCHURcn, November 6.

The Waimate, which arrived last night from London, brought 26 ferrets for the Government. She had sixty passengers, all well.

The decomposed body of a man, minus the head, legs, and arms, was found in Auckland harbor yesterday. The body is supposed to be that of a seamen of the Ashmoro.

Constable Madigan, stationed at Pungnvehu, shot himself through the head with a pistol fiis morning at half past eight o'clock. The steamer Mohaka, which left

Wellington on Friday, got disabled at 11 o'clock the same night. When about sixteen miles oft Wairau, a strong southeaster came on, and the vessel laid to four or five houra, and ran into Tory Channel at about one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, dropping anchor near Jackson's Bay. She touched the ground slightly, but got off. Robert Parker a market gardener living at Southfield was drowned or. Saturday in the Kowai.

Wellington is excited about a scarcity of water in the city reservoirs. Judge Johnston sat in chambers to day in Christchurch and disposed of a large amount of business. T. W. Longuet, J. 0. Hubbard, E. Clarkson, and Augustus Thiele, bankrupts, received their discharges. Orders for costs were granted in re R. Billens Junior, versus Black and Parsons.

An evening paper gives the following race tips:—Betrayer has been scratched. There are 10 horses in the great betting race of the meeting, the C.J.C. Handicap ; of these, Vanguard and Bundoora have not been supported, their stables having other representatives who are carrying , their money. The Poet was beaten by Lady Emma in the great Autumn Handicap, at weights which were much more favorable to him. Tasman and Emir Bey are also harshly treated in regard to weight. The betting market points to Welcome Jack and Salvage as the likeliest horses to furnish the winner, but we consider that the present state of the course will militate greatly against the chances of the long strided horses. Turquoise and Lady Emma are more to our mind, having a moderate length of stride with quick action, and they are at least equal in condition to any horses on the course. King Quail is honest as the day, is as fit as ever as he is likely to be, and his wind is unimpeachable, but he is slow at beginning, and as this race will be run fast, it is doubtful if he will make up the ground he loses at the start on a course as heavy as this. We shall stand by the chances of the light-weighted, short-strided, well-conditioned Turquoise, with Lady Emma next, fol— followed by King Quail oi Salvage. For the Derby we would lain give our tip on public form and suggest the well tried Nonsense to our readers ; but Cheviot is so handsome, so well bred, and in such fettle, that we cannot discard him. However, those who have him on the wrong side of their books may note the fact that he had a big gruelling yesterday and ran a little roguishly this morning. Minerva has not sufficient condition in her at present to race in such company as she will meet on Tuesday.