CHRISTCHUCH.
Saturday.
Mr Harper has given notice of motion in the Provincial Council that it is desirable .'resolutions ".should be .considered during the present session with regard to the tenure of pasturage lease 3 ■ which expire ia 1880. The Lyttelton Times condemns as undesirable the discussion of such a grave question at the close of a session in,which there has been a recent change!of Government,' and because the Government has not yefc expressed any opinion in the matier. ' : i *$ Encouraged by the premiums- offered by .the Acclimatisation Society the people are destroying hawks wholesale. In the Provincial Cofincil last night a motion for sending a provincial immigration agent home was. withdrawn at the request of the Provincial Secretary, who said the; Government were of opinion that, immigration as now carried on by the General Government wai satisfactory. This afternoon a SOO-yards? race for £10 a-side, was run between young Delaney,; of Auckland, ami W.-Pentecost, of Canterbury. Th 3 former won easily. ;
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1998, 31 May 1875, Page 2
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161CHRISTCHUCH. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1998, 31 May 1875, Page 2
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