CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4393, 1 February 1883, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH.

. ■ ' , Yesterday. Tbe births in January numbered 196, marriages 39, and deaths 92, against, for last year, 162 births, 27 deaths, and 54 marriages. The large increase this year this month is probably due to the prevalence of diarrhoea and choleric complaints, which hare been unusually severe. The cultivation of olive' trees in the public garden's has so far proved a great success. Tbe truncheons from which they hare been reared were so dry when receired that it was considered the attempt to strike them would be futile, but, contrary to expectation, the 100 truncheons have yielded a thousand healthy youm? plants, and, are expected to produce a proportional increase next year. All the Volunteer corps have either reached the maximum or fall short by one or two menronly. The rainfall for January is given at 11 inch, against 4 99 last year. ii Ik the' Ditorce Court Pipplewell r. Pipplewell and Clifford, the petitioner, obtained a rule nisi for divorce from his wife, whom he married in 1878. The /paries, were *)\ in humble life, in the Waiau district, the petitioner being a laborer, and co respondent a carpenter. Adultery was clearly proved, and a -decree granted as prayed for. : Mr Paxton writes, to the paper saying that the stook transactions he referred to in Ceurt**s-a fraud took place in 1876, and was not the one to which Mr Royse ,in his. letter jrepließ. He .states that from 1 the tone of Mr Rbyse's letter he was cvi -ideritly -ignorant that any such transactions bad ever taken place. A. largely attended meeting of representatives from local bodies met to-day to consider the subject of charitable aid. ;;TheHon.:"B'.. (X J..Stevens was in the .«bair. f The tenor of the speeches was , obviously, in faror of the system of endowment. . The, following resolution was proposed :r-'^That this meeting h of opinion that the funds'required for ohariable aid purposes should be provided from local sources in conduction with Qorerament subsidy." This was nega- ' tired by 18 to 8, and the following amend* ment was carried on the voices:—" That •in ■ the opinion of this Convention, the proper way-to provide for the future maintenance*'of hospitals and charitable ..aid'institutions is by the Legislature making large and substantial endowments for them out of (he waste lands of the colony, and in the meantime the expense of thfe institutions should be borne by the consolidated revenue^"