CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3428, 24 November 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Saturday night.

The Gas Company have been making extensive alteration in their system of laying pipes. The principal suburbs are now supplied with gas, and there are in all 14 miles of mains alone laid. Tho indecent exposure disease has again broken out badly. Within the last week three cases of the kind have been severely dealt with. Tho new tariff has been farourably received here, on the whole regret being expressed in some quarters that the duties on tea and sugar wero not rcimposed. Some of the alterations puzzles the trades as heavy, the impost laid on salt for instance. At • meeting of the Chamber of Cob^l

merce bold on Friday Mr Nathan brought up the qucsf ton of sending a vessel to look out for die Kiiowslcy Hall, now overdue. It is thought she may haro shared the same fate as the Struthmore, and had been wrecked on the Crozets or some other Island. It was resolved to ask the Government to send a cablegram to tho English Government asking them to send a vessel from the nearest station to look for her.

While trout fishing a gentleman caught a sixteen pound fish last night in the Avon with a crown fly. It was 30 inches in length, and sixteen in girth. At* a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association last evening a motion was carried " That an increase in duty of two shillings per gallon on proof spirits proposed by the Government is excessive, and that a duty of one shilling per gallon met all requirements," " That tho Secretary be instructed to correspond with' kindred associations with a view of obtaining co-operation to secure the reduction." A hearty rote of thanks was accorded to the delegates who attended the conference at Wellington. The new Catholic Church, Oxford, will bo consecrated to-morrow (Sunday) by Bishop lied wood.

At the quarterly meeting yesterday of the Chamber of Commerce the President read a telegram forwarded to Mr Stevens saying they would have many disputes if Government added a clause to the amended Tariff Act providing for the purchaser paying the increased duty on all sales made for forwarding and delivery.

Mr Connall, to the surprise of many, showed that clause 12 of the Customs Tariff Act made that provision, and that this clause had been re-enacted in every amendment bi'l passed up to last year.