SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(feom ock ows correspondents. ) CHRISTCHURCH. July 15. Eleven fish hawkers have been summoned for causing an obstruction in the public street. One case was taken as a test case, but it was adjourned sine die, a point being raised as to whether the by-law was not vHm vires. The magistrate 13 taking time to decide the point. A fire nearly occurred at Messrs. Matson's office, in the heart of the town, last ni"ht. A gas stove, which had been le, t bifrning, ignited the floor. The cler!: luckily saw it and extinguished it with r bueket of water. A cattle dealer between Grcymouth and Ciiriatehiirch, named Flo wors. was arrested at liaiigiora to-day cliaiged \utli larceny as a bailee of 54 head of cattle of tilt: value of L2CO, the property of John Davis, of Christchurch.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1009, 15 July 1879, Page 2
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138SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1009, 15 July 1879, Page 2
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