CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3031, 1 November 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Thursday.

Id answer to a question pat by a member of the Synod, the President replied there were scholarships in the New Zealand University offered for clergymen's sons but not their daughters. The form the Selwyn memorial will take will be a new stone church at'Phillipstown, to be called the Selwyn Memorial Church. A number of the Dunedin firemen have signified their intention of being present on the occasion of the procession of the Christchurch Brigade on the 16th pf December. r , At a meeting of the Union Boating Club last evening it was resolved to send for some £200 worth of new racing boats. A requisition is being signed, asking Mr Thomson, the present Mayor, to come forward for re-election. It is expected he will do so.

The Synod hare resolved to subsidise the church pew system this year with £50 to prevent it from dying of inahi* tion.

At a meeting of the Kaiapoi Boating Club on Wednesday evening it was stated that an effort would be made to bare the Interprovincial Begatta this year rowed on the Waimakariri Biver.

A meeting of the Board of Governors this morning broke up abruptly through the attention of the chairman being called to the fact of there being no quorum. This has often been the case of late, in consequence of so many of the members being at Wellington. Mdme. Tasoa leaves to-morrow for Wellington. She had a very bad season here.

Walton follows the Bates's at the Boyal on Monday. The latter hare done a rery poor business. Breadstuff* bare hardened, in consequence of the recent shipments to the Home market. Oates are firm at 4s 3d. Barley, no stocks available. Hams and bacon in cloth advanced to Bd, owing to the large exports. Other produce unchanged. , .; .