CHRISTCHURCH.
This day. His Lordship the Bishop is expected back from England on the 12th December.
The cix new American engines recently arrived for the Christchrrch section of railway are being put .together in the railway workshops. Authority has been received here to commence (he construction of 600 railway wagons at once. Wednesday. A dastardly assault was made on the Bey. Mr Douglas, of Akaroa, after the Sunday evening service. 7 As he was returning home he wai severely beaten with a stick, and his assailants made off. At the morning service the rev. gentle* man had spoken in very sirong terms of the conduot of a portion tf the larrikin element of the town. a At the Synod this afternoon a motion to adjourn until after the return of the Bishop was lost. The immigrants ex Waitangi were taken out of quarantine to-day. A number of them proceeded to Ashburton and Timaru, but the bulk are in Addiugton Barracks, Christchurch.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3024, 24 October 1878, Page 2
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