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1875
- January 29
- Kaiapoi Woollen Mills founded.
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The Library buildings pictured from the Hereford Street bridge - 1897
April 30
- New library building completed on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Hereford Street. Designed by W.B. Armson, the building is now part of the Library Chambers.
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- F.T. Haskins begins record 26 years as Town Clerk.
- Typhoid epidemic (which lasted until the following year) causes 152 deaths in City. Death rates from "Christchurch fever" [typhoid fever, scarlet fever and diptheria] were much higher than the national average throughout this period, but had fallen dramatically by 1882 because of much improved public health measures and the long delayed building of a sewerage system.
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