CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.
[(Per Press Asaociation.) Christchurch, last night. The Canterbury Caledonian Sooiety offer a scholarship of £ls, tenable for two years, for ohildren of Scottish parents (on either
side). The governors of Canterbury College have granted one year’s free education y'-'lo the successful candidate. The examination will be (1) Scottish history 1560-1660 Scottish language end literature, including the life of Walter Scott, two of his epics, and two of Boras’ larger poems. The North Canterbury Salcyards Company, at a special meeting at Baugiora yesterday, decided to wind up, and accept an offer of the North Caaterbury Stores Company for freehold of tho yards and buildings, tbe amount being sufficient to pay the amount of the morigige, bank overdraft, aod oosts of winding up. Tho Hon. Colonel Pitt, Acting Minister of Railways, roturned from Hanmer yesterday, and spsnt to-day in Christchurch. At Hanmer he inspected tbe stream from whioh it is proposed to draw the water for the Hanmer sanatorium. He conferred to-day with the Exhibition Commissioners re a railway siding at the Exhibition grounds, and with Mr Lanronson, M.H.R., re the Lyttelton tunnel rates.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1727, 19 April 1906, Page 3
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184CHRISTCHURCH NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1727, 19 April 1906, Page 3
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