CHRISTCHURCH CYCLING CLUB. The unsettled atato of tko weather oa Saturday afternoon was responsible ior the moderate attendance at the first duy of-tho Christchurch Cycling Club's Easter and Tost Race Meeting. It is estimated that there were between three and four hundred per sons present. When the first heat of tho*first raco had been got off the committee met, and alter discussion it was decided on with the programme, dospito tho tain, which continued, with only brief intervals, all the afternoon. Shortly after five o'clock it was decided to postpono tho events still -to-be .de termined, which included tho 23 miles and 10" miles test races. Considerable interest contred in the one mile unpaced test raco, but it proved of ad unexciting nature, both, competitors keeping together at a medium pace till ehortly before the second round had been completed. At the flagstaff Chalmers appealed owing: to Suther land, who had had the inner up to the cornor, closing in on him. Ou tho other hand, it was questioned whether thero was sufficient distance between the competitors to justify Chalmers in taking tho inner run ning. After consultation tho committeo de cided to declare that it had been no race, and that it must be run over.
