CHRISTCHURCH.
Sunday. ' 'J During yesterday the Famine Relief Fund Committee established another
collecting •stand on the plfblic footpath m the centre of the city. At intervals -during the evening Homers' band played in' Cathedral-square, and the members of the Relief Fund Committee ?>resided at tables with . subscription isis and money boxes. The public apEreciated these efforts, and subscribed reery. The total amount so far collected here m aid is £725. The collection made m the street yesterday . amounted to a little over £100. , A fire occurred m the northern part of the city this afternoon. A .high wind was blowing at the time, but the brigade worked well, and got the fire under after two cottages had been destroyed and an adjoining building injured. The origin of the, fire is unknown.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 104, 17 October 1877, Page 2
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