CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2865, 22 April 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Saturday. ' The matters in dispute having been j arranged, the chess match between Christchurch and Dunedin was resumed last night. Only one game was finished, Veale playing for Christchurch; and Thomas for Dunedin, the former being the winner. The Christchurch players hare the best position in the majority of the games, and they expect to win the ma'.ch. This day. j Chbistchubch Back Coubse. The Autumn meeting commenced to* day. Beautiful weather. Large attendance. Leger—lso sots—Webb's Jangler (H. Fuller), Ist; Mallock's Foul Play (Higgott), 2nd. Won by one length; time, 3mins. 27^-secs. Trump Card and Standard Bearer were scratched. Later. Trump Card has been scratched for all her engagements at the autumn meeting. The Corn Exchange Committee hare resolved to petition the Government to have a large number of trucks constructed to meet the requirements of next season. Sarah Steele, wife of Geo. Steele, carrier, South Town Belt, was arrested last night charged with having caused the death of her son William, nine years of age. It seems Mrs Steele was heard screaming in the garden, and on the neighbors going up they found her with her son in her arms, insensible, and bleeding coS'ously from a wound above his left ear. ear at hand were a kitchen poker and the hoy's felt hat, both stained with blood; the latter with a hole cut through at a place corresponding with the wound in the boy's head. In explanation Mrs Steele said to the neighbors she supposed the boy had bean throwing the poker up into the the trees and it fell on his head, inflicting the wound. The boy died a few hours afterwards. The medical statement is that there is a hole through the skull, and the brttin is penetrated; also that the wound was caused by a blow of considerable force to out through the boy's hat and inflict such a wound as that described. Mrs Sims, a neighbor, says she heard Mrs Steele call to the boy. in an angry tone, and then go towards him shortly before the affair occurred.