CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3318, 11 August 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

; '- , Saturday night.

The Waipara rail way bridge commenced this week will be completed in between three and four months. ■ '*: The quantitive appointed in connexion with the Town; Hall designs hard nearly completed their task, and will probably report at a meeting of the com* mittee on Monday. ,; G>i>i :

The Land Tax Court; at Christchurbh, North West District, was opened yesterday. About seventy objections were lodged and some were allowed. ' ■ ■: ■ '

;. Afire broke out yesterday among some [rubbish at the baqk of '^ii&, \Whij;«'33(!ar£' HotelJ It :wai. quickly noticed by; the constable on his beat and' extinguished before any damage was done.^ It| is supposed to have been, caused by cindars thrown amongst the rubbishi I Ist

A large and influential meeting of citizens was held last evening in the Oddfellows'; :Ha)l fpr^'jth^^uj^oie 4" oi, forming a Liberal Associationj<Dr Turnbull was in the chair; and it wUs resolved > that an Association be formed to lie called the Liberal Association;^ object-bping to secure the return to Parliament of representatives holding liberal principles, throughout the electoral districts of. Canterbury. A Provisional Committee' Was elected. jy V

At the benefits for Mrs Hill and family the proceeds were a little, orer £100. ;/'T/lie Courtney coach lull of passengerb capsized yesterday at a steep portion of the Biccarton road.: a number of females were injured, and one- gentleman was seriously bruised) the: coach falling on him, but he was .enabled, to resume his journey! ■ ■ | !!•!■'':>',^' Mr Pole, the retired Baptist minister and imbecile, who has been missing from his home since Wednesday last, was found last night wandering;about Lincoln in a very weak state. He was! kindly treated by the landlady of the Perthshire Arms Hotel, and conveyed home in a trap by a friend. The police were searching for him for two days about Port Hills.

The Christchurch Constabulary have been strengthened by the arrival of six constables from Wellington. Members of the various Football Clubs are now practising every morning, before a selection is made for the Wellington and Dunedin interprovincial matches. ■

Another meeting of the Canterbury Liberrl Association was held to-night at which preliminary steps were taken towards the object in view. It is stated that an eligible candidate has been selected to contest the election for Christchurch in conjunction with Sir George Grey. Government are collecting in twenty per cent of the rifles issued to the various volunteer corps in Canterbury, for use in the North Island.