CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2858, 12 April 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Thursday. Sir John Coode will be here on Monday next. The Canterbury railways hare already conveyed this season orer 46,000 tons of grain. The Government, in a letter to the City Council, intimate that they will gladly adopt the principles embodied in a resolution passed at the recent conference, viz., "That the proper management and support of hospitals, charitable institutions, and charities aid would be best provided for by districts being defined, comprising counties or groups of counties, with a contiguous one, in which is included municipalities which are likely to avail themselves of the same charitable institutions; that within such districts public charitable institutions should be administered, and charitable aid distributed by a beard representing the Government and the several municipal bodies and .County Councils included therein; that such portion of cort of these institutions, and of charitable aid, as v required to bo provided by local bodies, should be contributed by the several municipalities and counties interested in proportion to their population" The Government do not desire to be represented on these boards. They will take into careful consideration the question cf endowments for the above institutions, aa suggested by the Conference, and the Government undertake to contribute an equivalent to any sums raised by voluntary subscriptions or contributions which local bodies may make to (hejr funds, find will make no deduc-

tions from the subsidy, payable under the Financial Arrangements Act, 1876, to municipalities, &c. The Government will discontinue the present distribution of charitable aid on June 30th.

This day.

Tho City Guards purpose holding an encampment at Temuka during Easter wesk, provided the Government grant free passes on the railway.