CHRISTCHURCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3259, 12 December 1881, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

December 12,

The English cricketers have finally accepted the terms offered by the Canterbury Cricket Association for a three day's match,

A sad accident occurred on the river Heathcote yesterday morning. A boy named J. R. Campbell rode a horse into tbe river. The horse became restive, and threw him off |in deep water. Two men named Thomas Kerr and John Smith swam out to his assistance. Kerr reached Campbell first, but the latter grasped him round the legs and disabled him. Smith made desperate efforts to help Kerr, but though be got a hold of his hair two or three times he was unable to keep him above the water. Campbell and Kerr were drowned, and Smith only got ashore with great difficulty. Kerr was a cabman, and leaves a wife and several ch'ldren.

Twenty-one pure-bred sheep, one pony, and a greyhound, were imported in the Lady Jocelyn from England. The matriculation and junior scholarship examinations in the New Zealand University commenced this morning. There are eight candidates for the former, and thirteen for the latter.

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It has now been decided beyond a doubt by all the leading lights of tbe age that the wave of heat which lately passed through England is coming for us in a dire3t line. The ladies of Napier would do well to avail themselves of the splendid values we offer in Sunshades, 2/9, 3/6, 4/6, to 30/; also, Parasols, 10/6 to 30/.—Combs & Co.