CHRISTCHURCH.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3967, 29 May 1885, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

May 28.

In considering the determination of the Poßtmaster-General that the mails by the direct ' steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the harbor board resolved to-day that unless under special circumstances of emergency neither the harbor board, pilot staff, nor the steam tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The board alio

resolved to support the action taken by other harbor boards to have an alteration trade in the Harbor Act, so that govern* rrent should be required to pay wharfage on material imported by it. The 6rst annual report on the sailors' home shows that during the thirteen I months the institution has been open 440 aesmen have been accommodated there. The expenditure has been LB9l, and the receipts leave a d btor balance of L 173.

His Excellency the Governor has informed the boards of governors of Canterbury college that under present arrangements he cannot interfere in regard to the difficulty which has arisen between the board and the university senate about ihe introduction < f certain plays of Terence into the past Latin course.

Mr L. Harper, M.H.R., for Avon, addressed his constituents at Papanul tonight. He avowed himself a supporter of the ministry as long as they adhered to the policy they had enunciated whon taking office. He received a vota of confidence.