CHRISTCHURCH.
• ' SteptembSr22. V; ■.;®sb Gaiiterbury police for the first time commence' bait practice ott Monday next. t / ' • Yesterday & lroy r threfe :s#& a-ialf y.e&rs of age was burnt to death at Littfe* River Bush, where his father was burning off the scrubl ":" ;; . • -. The Eev. Father Binsfield writes to the " PresV " this morning, stating that four .^Roman. Catholic childrea at.Lobttrnate- ) Serb they have by the* master of the local Government School for not reading the Protestant Bible/ and for refusing to copy extract^.from same. A previous report : tcr this effect from j the same source was emphatically 'denied by the schoolmaster. :- * : v: . Tuesday. The allotment of notices of shares m ;the Wnitm Insurance Company was issued this morning. The allotment appears to? have been matJe with'a Very careful rfegard to the business position of the applicants:" 'Many clerks and ; others vmo hold little or. no property; -but applied; fbirlirge numbers of snajres, apparently for" speculation ptarpdsfes, shares at all. v . > - A letter v?as published this inqriiing I f rom the v master^' i;he Loburijv School, ; . emphatically; denying the alleged .flogging of Ckthdlic children for refusing to read the' PrptestSfat ;bible.' Gairef nl enquiry'^ni to Be made: into the eske'.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 26 September 1877, Page 2
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