CHRISTCHURCH.
April 25
The manufacture of potato starch, farinaceous food, arrowroot, and similar products, is being commenced here on a large scale. The case brought against Hobbs and Goodwin, the proprietors of the totalisator, by SDider and Drake, bookmakers, was this morning adjourned, on the application of Mr Loynt, for one week. This will enable the defendants to attend the Timaru races with their machine, much to the annoyance of the bookmakers.
The steamer Hawea, which left Lyttelton on Saturday, took thirty secondclass passengers booked for America and London, including a number of Mormon converts.
The body of Rice Faulkes, who has been missing for some days, was found by a search party yesterday near the Heathcoate estuary under circumstances showing clearly that the deceased had committed suicide. He was 29 years of age, and had been drinking heavily of late.
The Pinafore troupe were treated to a trip over all the tramway lines on Saturday. The troupe continue to draw immense houses at the Theatre Royal. A pack of harriers, numbering eleven, has arrived by the ship Mataura. The Native Minister, attended by Mr Purvis and Honi Pihama, arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday on business connected with the liberation of the Maori prisoners.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3066, 25 April 1881, Page 3
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