[Per Press Agency.] CHRISTCHURCH. 31st December.
John Casey, charged to-day with stealing £40 worth of property from John Gillon, m committed for trial. The robbery took place kt an hotel. * The milkmen have resolved to increase the price of milk from 4d to 5d per quart. The vital statistics for tin. year are is follows :— Chrtetchurch district: Births, 1935, against 1814 for last year ; marriages, tStsL against 43!) for the same period; deaths' «£f ! against 570. ' _ T , .. , 2nd January. The Press this morning came out as a penny* paper. In their announcement the director state that they are desirqus of supplying the public with a first-class morning paper at tha lowest possible price. ' A man named Weir yesterday was committed for trial on a charge of attempted rape on a young girl, aged sixteen. Both were iFvfott at a farmer's place, at Whitecliffet. Toe girl Is a servant, and the prisoner a ploughman on the farm. - • •
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 309, 2 January 1879, Page 2
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156[Per Press Agency.] CHRISTCHURCH. 31st December. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 309, 2 January 1879, Page 2
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