CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3420, 8 December 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Last night. At the adjourned meeting of License Holders last evening among other resolutions agreed to was one proposing that hotels should be divided iuto classes A. B. and 0., and license fee be paid pro rata in accordance with accommodation provided, say from forty pounds to ten per annum. The bricklayers held a meeting last night, and formed a trade protection society. * Another Special Settlement. A good many persons are enrolling ' themselves in the Company beinc formed to establish a settlement on the Waimate plains. About 10 o'clock last sight a man named David Heneman, working at the Dock Worts. Lyttoltoti, wii found by his brother lying near the works in a state of insensibility and with-a large wound right across his forehead. He was at ! once taken to the casual ward where Drs McDonald and Rou«e4rcre in attendance. It was found he had sustained a, serious injury, the skull being fractured. The man '% brother says the injured man west with his horses about 8 p.m., and he'is of opinion the unfortunate man must have been' thrown and so met with the injury. The man is now lying in a precarious condition. Mr Wallace, the Irish comedian, in a speech at the Theatre Koyal last night, spoke of the unkind and ungenerous treatment he had received from the Chirstchurch Press. Had he known of the existence of the brilliant genus of his Chmtchurch critics, he would have first taken instructions from them in the art of acting.

Tb«, ship Haronui, Captain Barclay, from London, was signalled this morning, and arrived in harbor, at ten a.m. She left London on August 16th, and brings a large number of saloon passengers; also 2nd and 3rd class—all well. The health tilicer and officials went off to the ship at eloreri and cleared her.