CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3338, 3 September 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Last night.

The Government bare consented to gire the Lyttelton Harbor Board 3152 yards of the old Cook's Strait!' cable free of cost, for the purpose of establishing communication between the Pilot Station and Lyttelton.

H. Feldwick is a candidate for Geraldine in Opposition to Wake field.

An attempt was made today to get a license for a hotel in Sydenham. It had been repeatedly refused, and the application was again rejected. There are only three hotels in the Borough, and nearly 7000 people; but tho Good Templars at present hold.sway over it, and a deter* mined resistance is being made to the liquor traffic within its limits.

Sailed: Island City for Albion for Fort Chalmers.

J. A. Cunningham has lately become a candidate for Ashley.

A dinner in Connection with the Chess Congress was held last night. It was thought Hay, of Dunedin, would have won eleven out of fourteen games, and taken the championship, but Newman beat him in a game during the afternoon, leaving the result undecided. The tour* ney at present stands as follows:—Hay won ten games (two still to play), Bray eight, Hookham eight (two to play), Jacobsen seven (two to play), Newman eight (two to play).

The New Zealand Shipping Company received a cablegram announcing the arrival at London, previous to August 30, of the ships Memboza (from Napier), Lorraine, and Boyne (from Lyttleton).

Over one hundred and thirty men are now employed on the Lyttleton harbor works, which are being pushed on rapidly.

The Chaplin Eoie Osborne company opened last night at the Gaiety Theatre to a fair house.