CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2001, 3 June 1875, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

• ; Wednesday. The Lyttelton Times has just received important information respecting the New Zealand passengers by the homeward San Francisco mail of March last. Captain Rose, who left New Zealand for England by: the OVlikado, in March,, on business connected with the New Zealand Shipping Company, writing from Ogden,;/Utahterritory, on April 22nd, 'says that, on arrival at Ogdcn, he found the line was damaged by floods = for a distance of 200 miles beyond the spot,'and, inconsequence, he had been detained ?there for a; week, but expected to proceed on his journey that day. Owing to the state of the roads, he calculated that he could, not embark at New York before ther Ist 'of May. .Forty New Zealand and 'three liuhdrod other passengers were detained with Captain Hose at Ogden. The mails by the; Mikado had- been sent on by the previous train from San Francisco, and got through to New fork after four dayi' detention from the floods. It will be seen from this that Captain Eose and the rest of the passengers could* not leave New York, at the earliest,r before the Ist of May. The.Schiller was lost at the Scilly Islands on the 4th or sth. of May, and must have, left New, York, at the latest, on the 2oth or 2dth of April. It follows; therefore, that the New Zealand passengers per the Mikado could not have been on board the Schiller.,,-

Mr Justice Johnston, who arrived per s.s. Phoebe yesterday, was: formally re-i ceived by the Superintendent. k' Ozily four -candidates,-are undergoing the annual examination for the civil service. ; ■ ; ::,.'.l T: j -..: ;;;;- ■„■).,

Mr Webb, of Eiccarton, obtained the astonishing yield of 100 bushels of oats per acre from an eight-acre paddock. In ttie Provincial Council last night the Government were requested to obtain a

report from the medical staffs of Christchurch and Timaru hospitals as to the advisability of receiving pupils as hospital dressers.