CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 July 1881, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

This day

The .Government has obtained 500 white rial berry trees from Sydney, 250 were sent on to Akaroa.and the remainder distributed over the rest of the province. The bays of the peninsula were recommended as most suitable for growing them, hence large numbers were sent to^Akaroa. They will be carefully planted, and as widely extended a trial as possible aciorded.

The measles are prevalent just now, and 150 children in Sydeuham district school were withdrawn, as well as 50 or 60 in another school in the south of Christchurch. There are thirty cases of typhoid fever at present, and three deaths have occurred, all traceable to ' the one dairy before alluded to.

A man named Peterson, who was before the court a few days ago, was charged with assault yesterday. It appears that he struck a gentleman walking along the South Iselt over the head with a billhook, and thel sergeant in charge says that had the victim not worn a stiff hat, the charge would have been one of murder. The case was remanded till today, to give time for enquiries.

[PEOM A CORUE. PONDENT.]

Wellington, This day

The following are the amounts of mortgages affected under the Land Transfer Acts dicing the past year:—Otago, £1.987,310 -Southland, £1,778,851; Canterbury, £1,606,770; Auckland, £565,438. Wellington, £453,010; Hawkes Bay,' £158,886; Taranaki, £52,909; Marlborough,- r £52,154; Nelson, £49,747; Westland, £22,810. 'Jhe aggregate number of acres (county, town, and suburban) covered by the mortgages is 1,071,125, averaging a value of £5 per acre.