FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18551, 27 August 1928, Page 10

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF AUG. 27, 1868.

Aquatics.—lt has been decided by the Christchurch Rowing Club that the opening of the coming season shall be celebrated with appropriate ceremony on the twelfth of next month.

General Synod.—The General Synod of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand is appointed to meet at Auckland on Monday, October 5, under thee presidency of the Right Rev the Bishop of New Zealand. It is thought not improbable that his Lordship will resign the presidency in the course of the session in favour of the Bishop of Christchurch. ss PUBLIC NOTICE.

The Public are informed that the Immigrants per ship Light Brigade may be engaged at the Immigration Barracks on and after Monday next, the 31st inst. D. M. MACKAY, Immigration Officer. Immigration Office, Christchurch, August 27, 1868. x s ac PUBLIC NOTICE.

The Government are prepared to receive Tenders for planting, with three-year-old thorns, each side of the Railwav Reserve, west of the Christchurch Station, commencing at Colombo Street or such other point on the line as may be required. Further particulars may be obtained on application at this office. Tenders to state the number of miles which the contractor is prepared to plant before the Ist October inst. Tenders endorsed “Planting Railway Fence,” to be sent in not later than Monday, the 31st next.

EDWARD JOLLIE, Secretary for Public Works. Public Works^Office, Christchurch, 27th August, 1868.

From the log of the Light Brigade— On the 21st passed through the Downs, and on the 23rd the Pilot left the ship at the Isle of Wight; on the 24th Mrs Rowntree gave birth to a female child, which died on the 31st; tacked ship off the Lizard, having had westerly winds throughout the Channel; at 8 a.m. on June 20 Dr Shoolbraid, in medical charge of the ship, was found dead in his bed; he had been very ill since leaving, and was apparently in an advanced stage of consumptidh; a bottle containing laudanum was near his hand; he had been in the habit of taking strong doses of medicine, and had remarked to the captain and passengers a few days before his death that he feared he had overdosed himself; he was buried the same afternoon; on July 4, Clara Brown, single woman, died of consumption, having been ill the whole of the passage; on June 24 crossed the equator in long. 27.30; on July 22, Mary Hayes, married woman, gave birth to a female child; and on July 27, Jessie Ross, married woman, gave birth to a male child. On August 2, Ann Trevarrow, single woman, died of rheumatism and heart disease; she had been ill since leaving. si Si Si

Arrived.—August 26; Light Brigade, shit>. 1214 tons, Evans from London. Passengers: Chief cabin, Frank and Edward Burton, Charles H. Whitcombe, Joseph M’Laren, Ponsonby Carew. Second cabin: Charles and Samuel Dennis, Charles Wm. Hutchinson, Thomas L. Garratt, Mrs Wilson, George Towler, William Martin, Charles and wife, and Otto Pietzsch. Steerage; Frances Taudy, William Collins, Daniel Cox, wife and family, Patrick M’Donagb and children, Mrs Coler&n, Charles M’Causland Maurice Gentleman, Thomas Crossan, Thomas Butler, wife and child, Bernard and John Smyth, Henry Amey, Samuel Cook, Robert Wigg, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Dunn, James Dunlop and wife, John Moffat, wife and family, James Sullivan, John Ryan, Robert Maxwell, John P. Williams, Thomas Johns, Henry Curry and wife, Louis Schmid, Henry J. Bennett, John Brown, Miss Thomas, Frederick Hinton, Henry Ford, Alfred Pinsent, O. Owen, John Phillips, wife and child, Albert Hartnell, Thomas Rowley and wife, Eliza Payne and child, George Prosser. William Bowden, Henry J. Gretton, Nicholas Scroll, G. Scorey, Daniel Dailey, Dennis and Patrick Cronin, Charles Mus sen, Robert English, Robert Ferguson and H. Arens.