CHRISTCHURCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3116, 23 June 1881, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

June 23. The ploughing matches which had been discontinued in most districts are this year being generally revived. A new public hall is to be erected by a company in Christchurch capabable of holding 1100 persons. On Monday tbe beach was searched carefully for the purpose of finding bodies from the wreck of the Pakeha, but without success, and it is presumed that they have been buried in the sand.

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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 ls to 2s 6d per yard ; white thread lace, 2J, 3, and 4 inches wide, lOd, ls, ls 3d, ls, 6d, and ls 9d per yard, worth double the money: black yak lace, beaded and plain, 8d to ls 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 boots to choose from in the colony—Coitus & Co., Cash Palace.