CANTERBURY.
Female Servants' Home.—Miss Rye, who brought Out ftiinroribor; of single-women to Otagoi- has ib'een .staying for amongst us. On "Wednesday morning a number of ladies met at.the house of Mr. Justice Gressoii, to hear Miss Rye's views on the subject of founding- a Home for Single Women out of service. The plan proposed is to build a suitable house, and put'it in charge of a matron, leaving her to| work,it as a commercial undertaking; . the patrons orj committee; <sxercising a control over the moral discipline' to'be maintained in the establishment. Subscriptions are to be collected,, and the Home set on foot as soon as possible.— Press. >
pBpGRESS_pP THE liTTTEITOK AND CHBISTCHUBOH Railway.—The Canterbury Press says:—' ? The tunnel lias been progressing at the average rate, no difficulty oil unusual circumstances having varied the monotony of the work. The whole length of the tunnel, from mouth to mouth, will bo ,2818 yards. Of this, little short of 1.100 yards has been penetrated by the drift way, and nearly the whole of this distance has now been enlarged to the full size of the tannel. There has been no brickwork attempted yet on the Lyttelton side, but on the Heatheote end about 400 feet of brick arching has been finished. The earthworks on the line from the Ferry to Christchurch are approaching completion, the bridge over the Heatheote being nearly finished. The line will be opened as soon as the rails arrive, and they are now daily expected. The wharf at the Ferry is begun, and the steam crane has been ordered, so that we may hope to see the traffic on the line witliin three months. The Ferry Mead Station has been begun, and will very soon be finished. The swing bridge for the Sumner road over the Heatheote only now awaits the ironwork, which has been 114 days out from England, and is therefore overdue." A meeting has been held at Lyttelton, to take measures to organise a congregation of Independents, to build a church, and to procure a Minister-ifroin Eng- I land. The Rev. J. L. Poore, the agent of the Colonial Missionary Society, was present. He was authorised by the meeting to bring out a clergyman at a salary of £300 a year. Singular Resolution.—On Sunday week last, a party of men employed in the tunnel, while on an excursion to the head of the Bay, discovered an old man in a cave in the last state of exhaustion. Having administered some food and a stimulant to the sufferer, he was so far recovered as to be able to inform the party that Ins name was Miller, and that he had been working in the employ of a neighboring farmer. Some three weeks since he was taken ill, and gradually getting worse, he resolved to take- up his abode in the cave to die.— Lyttelton Times.
CANTERBURY.
Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 597, 14 July 1863, Page 3
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