[BY TELEGRAPH.] Sale of Racecourse Privileges. Cambridge, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1773, 15 November 1883, Page 2

[BY TELEGRAPH.] Sale of Racecourse Privileges. Cambridge, Last Night.

There was a good attendance at the sale of the racecourse privileges to-day. The stand bar and dining-room fetched £9 ; templar "h booth (Bucklaud), 70s ; cards (Bond), -64 ; paddock (Brocklesby), 23s ; gates (McNeish), £31.

Improvements to the Course. The Cambridge Jockey Club intend carrying out improvements to the coui.se. A new entrance gate is being erected for the better regulation of traffic on race days. The owners of the course have decided to prosecute trespassers, racehorses training only excepted. This has been found necessary, on account of all the " screws" in the country galloping over and destroying the turf.

THKCotTNT De ChAMBOKD's WILL. — The late Count de Chambord leaves money in different public tunds amounting to eight million florins and four estates— namely, Chambord in France, St. Hubert in Hungary, Frohsdorf in Lower Austria, and one in Galicia, besides a small hunting lodge in Styria. All goes without restriction, except some legacies, to the Countess for her lifetime, an~d at her death two-thirds to the Duke of Parma, and one-third to Count Bardi. The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Duchesof Madrid, his nieces, receive half-a-million franca each, and an equal sum is left to the Catholic Propaganda in Lyons. Four hundred thousand francs will be invested, the interest to be used yearly for Peter's Pence. One hundred thousand francs are left to the Paris poor, and will be shortly sent to the Perfect of the Seine. Twenty thousand francs left to the Frohsdorf poor will be also shortly distributed. There are also legacies for yearly masses at Frohsdorf and Goritz, and pensions to this household. There 18 not one word of politics, nor is Bon Carlos or Don Alfonso men-