CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3055, 29 November 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

' • ' This day. The Acclimatisation Society have distributed 15,000 trout during the season. There are still 5000 left for distribution. At 'a meeting of' the Temperance League the Rev. McFarlane stated that the Japanese Ambassadors lately in England were so shocked at the expends tui-e of a hundred and fifty millions a year on strong drink that on their return to Japan'country "they intended to send missionaries to* Great Britain to try to abate the evil.

: Thursday. The two Portuguese seamen are now coming in for a small fortune. They are exhibiting themselves and their boat and a portion of their- enemies, the sharks, in. a tent adjoining the Theaire. Another suicide by hanging has'be* curred. Andrew Boyce, a slaughterman employed at Henderson and Mcßeth's on, the Lincoln itoad, was found last evening hanging on one of the hooks of the slaughterhouse by a necktie. He was at once cut down, but life was quite .extinct. It is supposed the cause of suicide is depreciation in the Talue of land in which he had lately speculated, and sines when he has been in a desponding frame of mind. - »" A largely attended meeting ,4f3s'' <Tield to-night in the Provincial Counfcil/Chambers of persons interested in the promotion of a Canterbury Temperance League, to consist jointly of abstainers and nonabstainers. A large number of clergymen and others interested in the' oause of temperance formed a Committee of Management. The management will be largely in the hands of and congregations. At\the Police Court to-day there were two charges preferred against prisoners for indecent exposure. One was discharged for want of sufficient evidence. The other case was adjourned. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon it was stated there was still a very great scarcity of truck* between Ly Melton and Christohurch in* consequence of the large increase of local trade.