CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2641, 26 June 1877, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Monday. At a meeting of the Drainage Board to-day, a letter was read from Mr Carruthers, resigning the appointment; of consulting engineer. The consideration of the letter was postponed.

It is rumoured that a new morning paper is to be started at Timaru.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, W. H. Capons, the boy arrested for endeavouring to pass buttons, in itaita«

tion of sovereigns, as sovereigns, was committed to the Industrial School t for eighteen months. A youth named Eeese, charged with a similar offence, was also committed for trial. H. Fielding, formerly editor of the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, was" brought up here to-day, charged (under the name of Hiram Walter Patterson) with having embezzled moneys belonging to the Darebin Town Council, of Victoria, in the year 1873.—Inspector Buckley said the total amount embezzled was about £600. —The prisoner was remanded till July 24th. This day. The calendar for the Supreme Court Criminal Sessions, commencing on Monday, is unusually light. A priyate letter from the West Coast says that over one thousand feet of tunnelling, has been completed in the Eangitoto silver mine. Specimens of Canterbury marble, sent to England, have been very favorably reported on.