CHRISTCHURCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3115, 22 June 1881, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

June 22.

The hotel erected by the Temperance Hotel Company (limited) was opned with a public dinner last night. There was a large attendance.

Mr Towle's music claes gave the final performance of the opera ■• Les Cloche de Corneville" at the Theatre Royal last night to a crowded house. The performers presented Mr Towle with a silvermounted baton. The opera has been played ten nights to splendid houses, and it is the greatest operatic success ever known here. Mr Towle intends to form an operatic society for the production of operas at short intervals. At the Magistrate's Court this morning A. R. Eva was charged with wife desertion, and remanded to Wellington. The men implicated in the burglary at Hooper's, the jeweller's, have been again remanded for the production of further evidence.

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Good News for our Girls.—loo trimmed hats, 2s 6d each; real white Maltese lace edgings, 3s 6d, 4s 6d, 5s 6d, and 7s per dozen yards, worth from Is to 2s 6d per yard ; white thread lace, I\, 3, and 4 inches wide, lOd, Is, Is 3d, Is, 6d, and Is 9d per yard, worth double the money: black yak lace, beaded and plain, 8d to Is 3d per yard ; real black Maltese lace, very cheap ; muslin work and everlasting trimmings, newly assorted.—Combs and Co., Cash Palace.

Boots! Bootiful Boots!—Combs and Co with great pleasure announce the arrival of a full and complete assortment of Boots and Shoes in place of those lost in the Sir Donald. Our stock now consists of 3,000 pairs, all kinds, and as we have marked them at our usual small profits one and all may rely upon having the most complete and cheapest assortment of first-class bootß to choose from in the colony—Combs & Co., Cash Palace.