INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 75, 6 April 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[Fkom the Press Agency]. Auckland, April 3. The Home News says that Bishop Abrahams is likely to be the new Bishop of Derby. Four female vagrants were sentenced each to two years, at the Police Court, to-day. The report of the Harbour Board Committee, on the Pilot services, opposes a change in the present system of the Board. It was resolved to make a grant of the site for the Sailors' Home to Bishop Cowie if sufficient funds be raised. The Pilot Committee reported in favour of a steam tender to tow vessels in. Wellington, April 3. The Hawea Natives have stopped two survey parties working in the bush, and on confiscated lands near here. They took possession of the instruments, tools, &c. The Natives carried guns, but did not use force. Captain Wilson has gone out. The Post-Office authorities care endeavour, ing to make arrangements for a supplementary mail by the Hawea, from Port Chalmers, on Sunday, meeting the Hinemoa at Wellington on Thursday, and arriving at Manukau on Thursday, to which date the out-going steamer will be detained. This will admit of replies being sent from Dunedin northwards. March 4. WEECK IN CLOUDY BAY. Intelligence has been received that the schooner Theresa, which left here on March 25, is wrecked in Cloudy Bay, near Disaster Point. [from times own correspondent.] Dunedin, April 3. The case of Eobertson v. Eoss, a family dispute regarding property, which has attracted a great deal of attention, has been amicably settled out of Court. The plaintiff and his wife have signed a public declaration, in which they announce that notwithstanding all that has been unnecessarily said and done to the prejudice of Mr. Eoss, they candidly admit that he has acted most honourably in the matter throoghout, and that the Anderson's Bay property belongs to defendant's wife, Mrs Eoss, and the Tomahawk property to Mrs Miller, both subject to plaintiff's life estate, as had always been intended. Plaintiff and his wife now further say that all family disputes are nowended, and their wishes fully complied with.

A STEANGE ACCIDENT.

A gardener residing at the Water of Leith, named Geo. Smith, died on Sunday under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. It appears that the friends of the late Dr. Hulme, who was buried about three months ago, had prepared a vault for the reception of the body, and Smith with some other workmen were on Thursday last employed to lift the coffin. While digging it out they were almost overpowered by the stench emitted, and a quantity of liquid matter oozing through the seams adhered to their tools. One of the men accidentally grazed the side of Smith's leg with the point of his spade, but the bruise scarcely pierced the skin, and appeared so trivial that no attention was paid to it. The same evening, Smith, who is a Forester, was at a meeting of his Lodge, apparently well and happy, and on Wednesday he was working as usual. On Thursday he felt ill and took to his bed. Dr. Brown was called in to see him and discovered that the unfortunate : man was suffering from symptoms of blood poisoning. Everything that medical science could suggest was done for him without avail, and after enduring the most fearful agonies imaginable, he died on Sunday afternoon. Decomposition set in so rapidly. that the side of the body on which the scratch had been inflicted, became as black as ink almost before the corpse was cold, and the deceased had to be coffined immediately. The deceased was a hardwprking industrious man, about 40 years of age, very much respected by the members of the Order with which he was associated, and he leaves a wife and young family to deplore his death. Wanganui, April 3. The Hon. W. Fox addressed his constituents. He said he had no intention of

supporting a retrogressive policy, meaning the renewal of the abolished Provincial institutions. He would support insular separation, which he regarded as merely a phase of Provincialism. He believed the Counties Act was a step in the right direction, but thought the Government made a mistake in. not retaining the Road Boards with increased powers. During next session a measure would have to be introduced to bring , them into more harmonious action. He considered small local Boards ought to be placed on somewat the same basis as the larger Municipalities. The land tund should not be considered ordinary revenue of the Colony, but should be refunded to the land—under the Wakefield principle. Regarding colonisation, there could be no better plan than that of special settlement. Regarding education, he was in favour of Bible reading with conscience clauses, but if Denominationalists and Secularists would not suffer this to be the system, he would support Secularism in preference to Denominationalism. He thought the country eminently prosperous, and that there were no grounds for gloomy forebodings. .He thought the Go r vernment should borrow no more for a time, and would insist on the exercise of economy.