CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2971, 23 August 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Thursday.

Gerald Manning, clerk of the Christchurch branch of. the Bank of New Zealand, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of stealing £100, the property of the bank. Bail, self in £3CO and two sureties of £150 each, was admitted. Mr Coster, the manager of the bank, stated that after becoming aware of the theft he had allowed the prisoner to go to Auckland in order to see what steps the bank inspector, living there, would take.

Owing to a heavy fall of snow at Oxford, near Christchurch, yesterday, the proposed hunt was postponed.

By the s.s. Arawata a shipment of 200 merino ewes arrived for Messrs Dalgetty, Nichols, and Co., from the flocks of Mr John Wilson, of Yala, uear Geelong.

The Mayor of Christchuroh yesterday proceeded to Wellington on business connected with Municipal reserves, and also to invite the members of both Houses to a banquet in Christchurch when passing through to Dunedin. A movement is on foot to give a hearty reception to the first party of through arrivals from Dunedin by train.

A letter in a "local journal this morning accuses the officers in the Land Transfer office of " blackmailing" the publicThe letter states that business is retarded unless hard cash is forthcoming, and calls on the Government for an inquiry.

At a public meeting held at Waikai yesterday, ro the West Coast railway, similar resolutions, were passed to those

passed at the other meeting in reference to the necessity of its being carried from Amberley.

A man named Lehman was discovered yesterday in a very weak and emaciated condition at his house near Kaiapoi. The place was in a state of filth and thorough destitution." He was removed to better quarters. Although in a starving condition he has £400 in the bank. Ho is a well known miser.