FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
Mr Charles Bright, Freethought lecturer, gave the first of a series of Sunday evening lectures at the Princess Theatre. "The subject of the discourse was 'Progress and Its Opponent; Popery—Roman Catholic and Protestant.' ******** Professor Coughtrey resigns tho chair of anatomy and physiology on account of alleged unfair treatment at the hands of the University Council. ******** City Council decides to invite competitive designs for a town hall at the Octagon. Premiums were offered of £2OO, £IOO, and £SO for the three best designs. • * •»* • »'» • The steamer Rotorua, the latest addition to the Union Company's fleet, reacias Port Chalmers, after a passage of 62 days from Glasgow, including two days' detention at St. Vincent and the Cape. • *•»••** Oamaru School Committee, by 4 votes to 3, called on Mr Fleming, head master of the North School, to send in his resignation. Amons: the City improvements, the design of. Mr Brindley, of Brindley and Stewart, of Manse street and Oamaru, was accepted for 3lr Murphy's new hotel and premises in Princes street and Moray place—the present City Hotel.
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Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 3
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176FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 3
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