CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3124, 21 February 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

. Thursday. The Press of this morning contains an article commenting in very forcible language on the conduct of Sir George Grey, in reference to the Governor's departure. The leader concludes as follows:—It must, at any rate, be satisfactory to the Marquis of Normanby to know that in his studied discourtesy Sir George Grey must stand quite alone, and that no such disrespect would be shown by anyone else in the colony."

The chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company has received the following telegram from Lord Hervey Phipps, A. 1). C, from Port Chalmers :-— His Excellency the Governor desires me through you to thank ths Captains cf the Hew Zealand Shipping Company, and tho rest of the ships in Port Lyttleton, for the manner in which they showed their respect for Her Majesty's representative on his leaving Lyltelton yesterday afternoon. We had a splendid trip down. Lady JNornianby had a good mght. There are now five lines of telegraphic

communication working successfuly in Christchurch.

Instructions have been given to commence the earth work of two sections of the Canterbury main central line, viz., that from Oxford to Malvern, and that from Timaru to Eangitata, the first of which is eleven miles in length, and the latter fifteen.

It has been resolved to liberate the prairie chickens (which arrived safely in Christchurch from San Francisco, with the loss of only one bird) at Heathcote.