CHRISTCHURCH.
Thursday.
A Canterbury passenger by the mail steamer Australia writes to the Christchurch papers'complaining bitterly of the treatment received by all the passengers in quarantine at Auckland. He states that the quarantine barracks were filthy and without firing, and that no food was received from Auckland for two or three days. He also states that the mails were fumigated in a very inefficient manner, and urges that an official inquiry should be made into the whole circumstances of the case.
A public chess club has been formed here.
A new American reaping and binding machine has been tried here with great success. It is calculated to save 6s per acre in cost of labor, and also to effect a considerable saving in grain, which is tieM up much cleaner than men can do it.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2502, 12 January 1877, Page 2
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135CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2502, 12 January 1877, Page 2
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