CHRISTCHURCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3501, 26 September 1882, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

September 26. Two cottages in Windmill road, the property of Mr J. G. Gilbey, were destroyed by fire last night. The insurance amounts to £430 in the London Liverpool, and Globe office. A case in which a great deal of interest was taken by the Jewish residents of Christehurch came before the R.M. Court yesterday. A man named H. E. Kathan has been for nearly a year occupying a seat in the synagogue to which he bad no right, and was deaf to all remonstrances. At length the officers of the church would put up with it no longer, and on the festival of the New Year called in a constable to eject Nathan. The constable refused to do so, and the president of the congregation, with some assistance, did it himself. The fracas, as may be supposed, caused a great scandal to the people of the Hebrew faith. Nathan entered an action for assault against the president, Mr M. Harris, and also against Mr 0. Lewison, but the Bench held that they had acted quite right and dismissed tbe case, giving costs against Nathan. A woman died in the Springfield (Malvern) district in childbed on Saturday night. The death ia said to have been hastened by the brutality of her husband and tbe ignorance of tbe person who attended her. An enquiry is to be held. After all the trouble and money spent

in the search for the missing lad Winter it appears that instead of being lost he had only bolted. Yesterday a telegram was received from the police station at Hokitika stating that be was there under an assumed name, and had got a billet. The feelings of those who have been scouring the rugged hills of the Peninsula may better be imagined than described.