TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3019, 18 October 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Pbb Pbebs "Agency,

CHRISTCHURCH,

Thursday.

Mr Bills, the well-known ornithologist, arrived from Australia by s.sv Arawata, and proceeds to England on behalf of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, for the purpose of selecting some £200 worth of birds.

The railway authorities hope to be able >io run through trains from Dunedin to-morrow.; ' ' *

Twenty*four fishing licenses have been taken out. The season commenced yesday. : At a meeting of the Fire Brigade last evening it was resolved that Dunedin men be asked to take part, in the demonstration! The sixth chess match by the Wellington Clubs was arranged to commence on Saturday evening. A raid ; was made upon the bakers yesterday for the purpose of an analysis of their bread. Of twelve samples Jen were, very good, one indifferent, and one very bad. Steps.will be taken against the maker of the latter (which was also found very short weight) under the Adulteration of Food Act. ■...7"'.V

At a meeting of the Board of Education to-day a number of letters were read from School Committees, threatening-to resign unless a more, liberal allowance, was made for incidentals. The Board passed a resolution, which is to be forwarded to the Minister of Education, asking the Government to allow the Board to fix the incidental scale' according to the necessities of the various schools under the old system... ...■■,.,..,, „',' ' ' • Preparations are being made.for the approaching Mayoral election. It is exEected that Councillor. Ick, the senior touncillor, will be elected.

Mr Cassidy, the coach; proprietor, who returned from the West Coast to-day, brings some magnificent quartz specimens from the newly-discovered reef at Taipo. Mr Newlock; the Government Inspector of Roads, left Christchurch to-day with a gang of men to place certain roads between here and the Bealey in repair. It is feared that a heavy rain which has been falling since one o'clock will cause the rivers to' rise again. '..,. .;,..;.' , Drake, the bookmaker, in a race with another 'bookmaker yesterday,: was cap? sized in the river, and narrowly escaped drowning, ,;,;/' ;> ; A Synodsman in to-day's paper contends that the Synod which is to meet on the 22nd inst., has been unlawfully convened in the absence oft he Bishop.