CHRISTCHCTRCH.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3479, 18 February 1880, Page 2

CHRISTCHCTRCH.

Last night. Recapture of a Prisoner.

Minnie Bench alias I dwards was sentenced to six months hard labor in addition to her former sentence of 4 years for 1 breaking out of Addington gaol. The E.M. said it was quite an encouragement to prisoners to escape by constructing the cells in the slovenly way that the one Edwards was confined in wasibuitfc.

Ellen Thomson, the, woman'*'who owned' the Louse where the woman was found, was fined 60s, the Magistrate being lenient because Edwards had only been in the house a quarter of an hour before being arrested.

It was statedi at Lyttelton, Borough Council that 1500 gallons of water per day were being wasted, and steps nil! betaken to find out the offenders and prosecute them. Killed by a Heaping; MachineA telegram has been received that a lad of 15, named Richard Mcßeth, was killed by a reaping machine at Kimberly on Saturday afternoon. A Shadow Pantomime, and other entertainments are to be given in aid of the liish Fund.' Two ships were reported off the He«tds by telephone' this evening. The one to the north is probably tbeloglewcod from Wel':nftbn, coming to load, and the other from the south is supposed to be the Waimafe or Westland, both of which sd\ed on November 27tb, !rom London and Plymouth respeclively.

A contract has been let, for £9588, for the completion of the nave of the Cathedral, and a temporary sanctuary of wood and iron. This is exclusive of £300 for tiles and £220 for London glass. The available mopey is only £7600, but the church property- trustees think that when the_ public see the birlding approaching a state which will allow service to be held in the place they will come foiward more liberally with subscriptions and relieve them from any embarrassment. The work is expected to take 1$ or 18 months to complete.