FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18624, 28 November 1928, Page 9

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF NOV. 28, 1868.

Acclimatisation Society.—lt was decided to devote £IOO towards the importation of rooks and goldfinches, Mr F. W. Weld to be written to with a request to superintend their shipment. XXX The Cust Church bell.—The bell presented by Sir E. Cust, has been shipped on board the Mermaid. Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co., the agents, have very kindly consented to convey the bell free of charge. XXX From a description of the steamer Rob Roy:—Her saloon is very light and room.v, is elegantly furnished, and will accommodate comfortably thirty passengers. She has a ladies’ cabin, which is very nicely furnished; and she is also provided with a bathroom. lIEATHCOTE REGATTA. A meeting of those fayourable to having a regatta on Boxing Day, will lie held in the sideroom, Town Hall, on Monday, the 30th November, 1868, at 2 p.m. • H. THOMSON, Hon. Sec. Lady Bowen goes to Auckland for a few days. The Governor will embark in H.M. steam ram Blanche for Hokitika, on Tuesday, if arrived from Sydney, and not ordered to the East Coast. The Lady Bird is taking an Armstrong gun, cohorns and ammunition to Napier. (Cohorns or coehorns were small mortars, named after a Dutch engineer.— Ed. “Star.”) Cricket.—On Monday the first of the trial matches for the interprovincial match with Otago will come off. The following are the sides: Old Residents —Messrs Brittan, Calvert, Cotterill, Dickenson, Dickenson, jun., Dawe, Moore, A. Ollivier, jun., E. Parkerson, Stevens, and Turner. New Chums— Messrs Allington, Anson, Fowler, Gordon, Harley, Lee, F. Mainwaring, R. Mainwaring, Odell, Reade, and J. IT. Ward.