CANTERBURY

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 305, 11 September 1865, Page 3

CANTERBURY

_ A Monstee Egg. —An extraordinarily largesized goose egg has been brought to our office by Mr De Troy. It weighs ten ounces, and was laid by a goose belonging to Mr E. J. Dudley, of. Broom Farm, Avonside. The goose in question took the first prize at the last Agricultural Show. It has laid several of a very large size, many of them weighing nine ounces.—Lyttelton Times, August 31. Watering the Streets.— Mr Plank has taken the contract for this useful work, having obtained the loan of the carts belonging to the City Council. It is to be hoped that the public will support the undertaking, conducing so much as it does both to their own comfort and the preservation of the goods exposed for sale in the shops and stores.—lbid.

Chess Club.— -We understand that it is the intention of some gentlemen who take an interest in the game of chess, to endeavor to set on foot a chib in Clulstehurch. If sufficient encouragement be to the project, the promoters intend at once opening a room and supplying it with the proper requisites. The plan is worth consideration. Similar clubs have been established with success in London and other English cities. The expenses, if the institution were properly managed would not be very heavy ; and the club would form a pleasant and intellectual recreation to those whose only resources for amusement at present are cards and billiards.—lbid. The New Zealakd Bab.— Mr Cecil Allen Coward, the eldest son of J. W. S. Coward, Esq., who was a pupil of the ]ato Rev. 0. Alabaster, has passed his matriculation examination for the Bar at the Inner Temple. This gentleman was tne only one that passed without being sent back for faulty Latin translations, and was congratulated at the termination of the examination, and told that he was a credit to the youths of New Zealand.—Press. Good News foe Travellers. — A movement has been set on foot in Nelson and Wellington for the reduction in the hotel charges. Canterbury, to judge from an advertisement in the local journals, seems inclined to follow suit. If the idea bo carried out, we shall be enabled to take our ease at our inn without being mulcted at the present extravagant rate.—lbid.