CHRISTCHURCH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 908, 30 October 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

This Day. It his been ascertained that some of the men going to Weka Pass ostensibly as unemployed, rest th«re one night, and then iro to Hud tim;>loyinent on station*, : ihus saving railway and coach f.iro. At pr. sent there ;ire 3)0 men on the railway works, and provision hiis been, .mide to employ 200 more. The men are making H'X shilling a day. > ■ The first bales of this season's clip of —^^-wornpor last. b*i(jurday, . A chill four years old, a son of Mr. Roberts at ;:Rl»od s- Sw.una >, was drowned on Sunday night m a drain cou'aiiiiug two fet <if w.iter, 'while playing alpout ', , William Mig^ins was fined m a a nominal sum yesterday for" throwing kerosine u pon William Laudfoi-d, and trying to set" linht Jo" it. The affair occurred during the elections, and 'Mig'.'inn h-.id published arr apology.' Effort b are b«i j ig made to fl<»at a company for parting a new evening paper here. The. . capital 'ih to be £10,000, m ten pound shares. It will biise its claim on 'public support' on the ground that it intends to be independent, of all political parties. Thn question of holding a new Yilunteer review m Christohuroh is being agitated.