CHRISTCHURCH.
November 20
Woods, of Wellington, and Hulston, of Christchurch, have been matched to run three distances for £25 aside on December 23.
Tbe Middle Island Railway Extension Commissioners arrived in town on Friday night, after having inspected the route of line via Tophouse. The secretary to the Railway League has obtained permission for a deputation to wait upon the Commissioners this afternoon. Mr B. H. Rhodes has forwarded a cheque for £50 to the Mayor for tbe Fire Brigade in recognition of their services at the recent fiie at his residence.
The Mayor has received a letter from the Lord Mayor of London, conveying thauka for a cheque for £200 subscribed
here towards the Mansion House fund in aid of the persecuted Jews in Russia. Regarding the Telegraph's article on the alleged discovery of diamonds in Canterbury, Mr Kellar, who is now in Wellington, and whose name was mentioned as an authority on diamonds, telegraphs : —"I did not say the diamonds were soft, but that they would break with pressure, as almost all diamonds will. The specimen shown me by Mr Jacobsen is undoubtedly a diamond, but too small to be of any value."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3546, 20 November 1882, Page 3
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