CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3443, 7 January 1880, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Last night

The City Council at last night's meeting determined to take steps to set at rest the question how far they can be overridden by companies taking possession of the street for pipe laying and other purpose!* and stopping all the traffic ' ;..& This day. A curiout,copper coin about the size of a farthing 1 and bearing on one side a Masonic symbol in the Royal Arch degree, and dn. the other side some indistinct letters and a date 1287, was found last week by a member of a picnic party on the Kaiapoi beach.* The finder in* tends to present it to the museum.. The Insurance Association ihave issued .a notice that the vie of gasoline, or its storage on premises mil vitiate a policy of insurance. / The dress circle seats for the opera, season are getting rapidly engaged. W ; In the Supreme Court yesterday a man was brought before Judge Johnson for making a slight disturbance among the spectators in the gallery. In dismissing the man His Honor is reported to have said that the presence of persons Being in a court of justice was limited to the favor of those concerned in the administrationjustice within its w«lls. Destruction of small "birds. At,a recent meeting of the Taiputu Sparrow Club, the Secretary reported that during the season he had paid for 14,938 sparrows and linnet eggs at a 1£ per dozen, an 3046 birds at 3d per dozen.