CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3406, 21 November 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Last night.

At a meeting of publicans held at Ljttelton on Tuesday evening, it was agreed to raise the scale of prices of spirits sold by bottle. The Opera Boufle Company open at the Gaiety on Saturday in the " Doctor of Alcantara."

At the inquest h Id, at Lyttelton gaol yesterday on the body of a prisoner named Timothy Howlalian, a verdict was returned that deceased died from natural causes.

During-three weeks ending November 15, 45 patients were admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, and 26 discharged. Five deaths occurred. At the same period last year, ou about thig date, there were 74 patients in the institution. The Lyttelton Harbor Board has been advised by its solicitors that it is entitled to exorcise jurisdiction overall waters which He within a radius of — nautical miles drawu from Balqm Point, men

radius to bo described only in a seaward direction; also over the foreshore lyiug between these points, and overall havens, ports and nrms of tho sea, creeks, and tidal rivers, whose mouths are entrances to the sea, between these points and over their shows up to tho limit of ordinary high water-mark.

At tho adjourned inquest on tho body of Albert Fogarty, of Lyttoltou, held at tho Mitre Hotel yesterday, before J. S. Coward, Coroner, the jury returned a verdict that Albert Fogarly died on Nov. 4, atLyttelton, from genera! emaciation, accelerated by the neglect of his mother, Mary Ann Fogarty. The Coroner admonished Mrs Fogarty as to her future habits, and drew attention to the narrow e.ecapj she had of being charged with manslaughter.

Yalpey was committed to-day for trial, charged with embezzling the funds of the Bailway Benefit Society. Dr Lemon is going to superintend the laying of the Telephone cable across Lyttelton Harbour in parson. Wheat: fair sales reported, but what little has been done has" passed through merchants' hands. Quotations remain about the same level, namely—4s lOd to" os. Some lots of chick wheat hare been sold during the week at 3s 6d to 4s. Oats show no alteration, and sales have been /confined to small trade parcels. Prices are—2s to 2s Id for seed, and 2s 2d to 2s 5d for milling. Barley is-un-altered. Potatoes fell—Trifling sales for table use oi old, recorded at £5 to £5 10s ; new, grown at North, are being offered freely at auction. Grass seed has been sold in small lines during the week at 4s to 4s 3d. As the new seed harvest is so close to hand, buyers are not eager to purchase. Dairy produce :—Butter, 7dtoßd; cheese, s|d to 6d; hams aud bacon, 9id to lOd. The supply of sheep for this week's market was not so large as expected. 13s 4d was the average price for beef; prime, 23s per lOOlbg; inferior, 21s.

Arrived: Rona, from Kaipara; Prince Alfred, Picton. Sailed: Wellington, for Dunedin; Southern Cross and Ringarooma, for Wellington. The Huia and Jane Douglas did not leave, for Kaikoura l«8t night, owing to the heavy N.E. gale. They Bale to-night.