CANTERBURY.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 1 September 1864, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

\ Another steeple-chase is -to' come off on 21st SepteinbeV. — Th^Jociey ■ Club -haal'c6m& to' 'the determ&ation'of mating- ■ tketfoUb-wirig lallowancei* Bngl»fi'bre ; a'lior<ea at the champion nesting. i *Jv4s^si^4* "& *SJa?«"&J M SjJ&Ss? J

fobbing the Lyons, mail aboutl'796, etidpsecu'e^ I We take- the- inteUigence-fronv; thoi&^awiiSr^v^.'i " For the- Champion Race, Canterbury Gup~andr Queen's Plate^Siyoafa lol'd, 10: 185.,;/,^yiarsjblcln 7 lbs. ; — For the Maiden Plate, Lottery Plate, Criterion Stakes, and Tyro Stakes,*^ years old, 14 lbs. ; 3 yearß old,-: "and ./Lijoara o[d,M^]\)*:c Owners of all horses will be required to bring satisfactory evidence of age~, pecligree, and performances:". .- r -;■>., - Ti jv !■,;:■- y) !_;■:■]' ■■■.],! I- ■; -'r;'j ;■ '■■ It seenis'tliat "thfc people of Canterbury' do' not place much confidence in. their new goldfield. The [Standard says on this subject: — "The indifference^with'^h'icK we'are regarding? the; re;centf> discovery on the West Coast is altogether surprising and reprehensible. .-When the news came iof the discovery in Marlborough Province, we got quite excifed'on- the Instant, and' many ,i>Cu's*i! were}, guilty-of a display of feeling, which; we regretted afterwards. ,- i J We. 'set out. dn somelby; sea iand some overland, . intent on reaplng.^our, share of the golden harvest. Of course, there was bitter disappointment/ and riot many -weeks elapsed till we heard^ of every vessel^ from Picton bringing her -quota of return diggeVsV They came* back to us sadder, and it is hoped wiser men. .This! Ohurih goldfield, considered f of sufficient hn-: portanco to be mentioned in His "Honor's address j on; the opening of the session of the Provincial Council, is now apparently forgotten. It is true that several parties of^diggers have passed through Christctiurchy era route to. the 'West Coast, 1 "but, we j have not heard of any of 'our; sober citizens ■starting, lihileed many seem to .doubt the, genuineness of the intelligence received." ' '. [ [' '" : " ' ' ' ' The Lyitelton Times says i the venerable Archdeacon Jacobs' has " declined ; '.to be nominated to to the General Synod for the' bishopric of Nelson. " The Provincial Council is still in session, but the business transacted is, for the most part, ,. not of ; Colonial importance. . . ; ; „,-., „■,..,