CHRISTCHURCH.
i' Saturday. ; The hands employed in two of the principal machine boot manufactories are on strike for an advance of 20 per cent in wages. The execution of the convict Mercer is fixed for Friday next. G-eo. Dodson, Empire Hotel, Dunedin, is said to have purchased a racing mare and several mares from Mr Redwood. The new Provincial, Executive are at issue with the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College and Museum respecting additions to the latter, because the late Executive sanctioned the acceptance of a tender for £14,000 just before retiring from office, and the new Executive wish to withdraw from the contract by paying compensation to the contractors, on the ground of the insufficient funds of the treasury compared with the demands upon it. The Board of Governors are expected
to refuse to agree to withdraw the contract. ■ This day. B. Parkerson, junr., aged 45, House Surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, died yesterday morning from typhoid fever. | The Hospital has been crowded with typhoid fever cases for months past, and Br Parkerson was greatly overworked. On Saturday last Dr Bach, sheriff, proceeded to Lyttelton, and gave Mercer an official intimation that the sentence of the law would be carried out upon him at I eight o'clock On Friday morning next. On being visited by the Revs. Knowles and Wills and asked to attend prayers, Mercer declined to do so, and on those gentlemen leaving the gaol he remarked that, any one seeing ministers leaving would think he was going to heaven quick. Bishop lied wood attended, mass at the Catholic Church yesterday, and preached to a crowded congregation. A laboring man named Knight was fined £10 for having two grey ducks in his possession the day before the opening of the shooting season, and, in default of payment, was sentenced to two months' : imprisonment. He has since been liberated by Sir Cracroft Wilson paying the fine. The Governor, in response to a; petition had just previously signed a warrant for the release of Knight. . r
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 3 May 1875, Page 2
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