CHRISTCHURCH.
Monday. IT. G. Butler, who fired at tbe guard in the south train on Saturday week, was brought np under the Lunatics Act, after he had been examined by a number of medical gentlemen, who pronounced him insane. He was very violent while in the precincts of the Court, and on a medical certificate was committed to the
asylum as a dangerous lunatic. Information has been received by the police that, for some time before leaving luvercargill, Butler was in the habit of carrying a gun with him wherever he went, and altogether his conduct had been very eccentric for some time past. A pigeon race between Ashburton md Christchurcli, of 50 miles, for young birds, wng won by Earnshaw's Luna in 1 hour 49 minutes. Norris, the New Zealand Blondin, concluded a successful season on Saturday. i He leaves for Dunedin to-day. ; Matson and Co. celebrated the opening ; of the Corn Exchange and weekly grain sales on Saturday by a free banquet. One hundred persons were present. It was a great success. This day. A Masonic Lodge under th* Irish constitution is to be opened on Tuesday next. The Waste Lands sales during Pebruary realised £74,668. '
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Thames Star, Volume VIIi, Issue 2825, 5 March 1878, Page 2
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