CHRISTCHURCH.
: This day. It,will be several days before through traffic" will be* resumed on th 6* railway. Great inconvenience is felt in consequence. The Waimakiriri is still very high, and the mails and passengers are conveyed by road. A large gang of men are repairing the damaged portion of the railway. A man was fined 20s for fishing without a license, and though his lawyer contended
that he afterwards took out a license, which gave him the ri^ht to fish from before committal of the ofl'ence, the Bench however be!d a different view.
Monday
Tin) Lyttelton Times of this morning says :—•" There are four or five subjects which haunt Sir George Grey's mind like nightmare. Their' exaggeration is manifest to most men, but he persists in regarding them as terrible facts. It is no use telling him (Queen Mab is with him), and what strikes him with horror is begot of nothing but vain phantasy. He persists ia thrashing the wind. These subjects are legislative treatment, Canterbury runs, , the bastard aristocracy of .New Zealand, and the Legislative Council." The article concludes by saying :—" If he so much dislikes the system of paid nominees, how is it that in fourteen months he has appointed six new members, a greater number than was made during five .previous years. The attitude taken by Sir George in this is unworthy his standing."
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3080, 31 December 1878, Page 2
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228CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3080, 31 December 1878, Page 2
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