CHRISTCHURCH.
Friday.
The receipts from the Canterbury Board of Education for 1877 aro £75,100; expenditure," £58,963.
• A woolshed on the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's run, in the Rakaia district, was destroyed by fire yesterday. It contained grass seed worth £3000; grain, £2000; total' damages, £7500. It was partially insured.
,At a meeting of the Philosophical Institute, De Yon llaasfc said a gigantic midden 200 miles long by 300 or 400 yards wide, exists in the colony, and some day he intends to explore it, with a view to obtaining information of the antiquity of man in New' Zealand.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2853, 6 April 1878, Page 2
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