“The Press” In 1864

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30413, 11 April 1964, Page 18

“The Press” In 1864

April 12. COTTAGE BUILDING COMPANY.—A meeting of the shareholders of the Canterbury Cottage Building Company (Limited) was held within the Mechanics Institute room, last evening. Present—Dr. Back, Messrs Thomson, Strouts, Bury, Lane, Bailey, Cowlishaw, Mating Miles, Blakiston, and Jameson (secretary). Mr Thomson was unanimously voted to the chair, and stated that the meeting had been convened to agree as to the memoranda articles of association, which were accordingly read seriatim and adopted. On the motion of Mr Strouts, seconded by Mr Bury, the following gentlemen were elected directors for the current year—Messrs W. Thomson, W. H. Lane, C. Cowlishaw, C. C. Bowen, C. R. Blakiston, J. Ollivier, and Dr. Back. Their (sic) being no other business for discussion the meeting terminated. THE CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—The Catholic chapel which is in course

of construction inside the Town Belt East, is being rapidly brought to completion, and we hear, will in all probability, be opened for divine service in a month or six weeks. The design is very elegant, and at the same time the hard blue stone which is used for the exterior of the walls gives an appearance of great solidity to the building. The doorway is of the beautiful sandstone which is found in our quarries, and this stone is used to very good effect in the ornamenting both of the exterior and interior of the chapel; the moulding of it which runs round the inside is especially very beautiful from the reddish colored veins of the iron that appears in it The wooden columns inside are of black pine, and rest on freestone bases above the flooring, with a foundation of blue stone below.

TIMARU.—The Phoebe arrived from Otago with 106 passengers about noon on Saturday having left the previous evening at

6, making a quick passage of eighteen hours ... Mr Banks of the firm of Miles and Co., has shipped in the Hero, consigned to Mr Caverhill, one live kangaroo, four black swans, four magpies, and several peacocks, which have arriver safely in port. . . . The screw steamship Hero, Captain Logan, from Melbourne via Otago, arrived at Port Chalmers on Friday, at noon and commenced at once to discharge her Dunedin cargo some 250 tons, which was all well delivered and the vessel ready for sea again by the following evening. We believe the like dispatch has not been seen in Port Chalmers on any previous occasion. The Hero brings 2000 fine stock sheep and eight horses, besides 30 tons genera] cargo. Amongst the list of passengers we notice the name of Captain James Clarke, so well known in connection with the celebrated “Black Ball” clipper “Lightning,” and who is now one of the managers for the firm of Messrs Bright and Co, of Melbourne.