CHRISTCHURCH.
[Per Press Telegram Agency.] Saturday. Pedestrianism. The match for £25 a side between Collins and Dclaney (of Auckland), was run this afternoon ; there were three events—loo, 150, and 200 yards. Delaney having won the first two race 3, won the match without the 200-yards race being run. A match was made directly after, in which young Delaney backed Thomrs Skeliy, a IVorth Island man, to run 10 miles in 58 minutes ; the stakes are £50 a-side, and Butler, "a bookmaker, backed the time. Singular Accident. • " ' ' Captain Charlesworth, one of the oldest settlers, died last night from an axe-wound in the foot, accidentally received whilst watching one of his men cut down a tree. Wreckage. A farmer named Evans, living near Long Beach, ISinetymile Beach, reports having found some wrecked timber, bags of corn, 'and three dead bodies.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1660, 14 June 1875, Page 3
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138CHRISTCHURCH. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1660, 14 June 1875, Page 3
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