CHRISTCHURCH.
This day. The directors of the New Zealand Company have voted 100 guinens to the Irish distress fund, and the Union Insurance Company voted the like amount. The Lincolnshire farmers'a delegates visited Kaiapoi and the adjacent country yesterday, and were considerably astonished at the enormous crops they saw. As a result of Colonel Scratchley's inspection of Lyttelton hu-bor, it is said that a recommendation will bo made to Government to have four more big guns erected in addition to the four already here. A run out was made in one of the steam launches plying in the harbor to judge of the adaptability of a torpedo service, and it is probable that the* Government will be asked to obtain five or si* small vessels for torpedo boats.
At the gates of the Catholic Church yesterday, over £200 were collected in aid of the Irish famino relief funds. A meeting was held in the school-room after mid-day mass, and resolutions were carried promising to give every assistance to the general committee appointed recently at a public meeting for raising funds.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1011, 28 January 1880, Page 2
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