INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 84, 8 May 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.)

Grahamstown, May 4

The Tutukina and other Natives have destroyed part of the road lately made by the County Council. Another lot of Natives exacted the payment of £5 from Mr. Kelly, who was driving cattle through. New Plymouth, May 4. Nelson papers having published telegrams as from New Plymouth respecting the gold rush on the bank of the Teremakau, near Greymoixth, several have come here by steamer. This is an error, no gold having been discovered in any part of this district, Kumara, May 4. The new rush on the north side of the Teremakau is attracting much attention throughout the district. About 700 people are on the ground, and the | country is pegged off on all sides for a considerable distance, and it is reported that already 20 parties are on payable gold. 300 to 400 persons cross and recross the river daily from Kumara. Strong dissatisfaction is expressed at the delay and expense of the tolls in crossing the river by a punt. Last night a public meeting was held, when it was unanimously resolved that the ' Councils of Grey and Hokitika Counties be petitioned to oonstruct a bridge over

the Teremakau, and in the meantime purchase the punt, and throw open the ferrj free to the public. Dunedin, May 4. The manager of the Bank of New Zealand offered to negotiate the balance of the Harbour Board loan of £120,600, and place extended facilities for financial arrangements at the disposal of the Board. The offier was referred to the Finance Committee. The rush which lately took place to Taieri is now all over, and the ground abandoned. Sergeant Pair, clerk to the Commissioner of Police Office, is about to proceed to Wellington to edit a Police Gazette to be published there. Auckland, May 5. An analysis of the stomach of the woman who was supposed to have died from poison shows no traces of arsenic. Considerable dissatisfaction has been caused by the combination of twenty bakers to raise the price of bread to fivepence the 21b loaf. The Insurance buildings narrowly escaped being burnt to-day. The fire was caused by a lighted match thrown down the grating. The rafters, were ignited, but the fire was extinguished. A Mr. Anderson was stabbed in the eye by a man named Healey in Queenstreet this afernoon. A fearful case of burning to death occurred beyond Lucas Creek. William John Peacock, a notorious drunkard, who had had several hair breath escapes, got a bottle of mm, and after coming home, drank the whole bottle. Between five and eight he went to bed, and asked a youth named Nesbitt, who lived with him, to give him a light for a pipe. Nesbitt, who went to sleep, was soon awakened by a crackling, and saw the head of Peacock in flames. Soon after the powder flask under Peacock's bed exploded, and a gun on the wall went off. Nesbitt was obliged to leave the building. He alarmed the neighbours, but when both

returned, the roof had fallen in, and the body was burnt all but the trunk.