INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 363, 13 January 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

fFROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) Jan. 9. Pastor Chiniquy proceeds to Waipu ** on Monday. After visiting that district he returns to Auckland. He will go to the Thames on Jan. 18, and "Waikato on Jan. 21. It is understood • that Hokitika will be the first place visited ~ by him in the Middle Island. il Grahamstown, Jan. 9. ]' Metera, a Piako Native, jealous of I' his half-caste wife, knocked her brains il out with a tent pole. . Afterwards he hung himself. Some weeks ago she : fled from him and swam the Thames m y\ river, since which time her husband had consulted a Maori prophet about his wife's fidelity. The revelations being f : : \ anything but satisfactory, he killed her. Sir George Grey intends soon visiting tho Thames, and opening a lecturing campaign through the Colony. John Murray, schoolmaster, Taupo, was fined 10s and costs, £8, for beating a boy in the school. Mr Kenrick, R.M., \ blamed the School Committee for not enquiring into the matter. Dunedin, Jan. 9. : A case of suicide by poisoning occured in town yesterday afternoon, the victim being an old pensioner, 57 years of age, named William Esmond, f During the past few days he had been drinking, and yesterday he procured from, Neil, the herbalist, 4s, worth ...0f... ' saying that he wished to- destroy some rats. After taking the poison he was brought to the Hospital, but died an hour and a half after his admission. He received his last remittance only .#- I about a week ago. Some time since he was separated from his wife. From statements he made in the Hospital, it I ■ ■ . appears he was jealous of her, ' The trial of the Waimate bush fire cases is fixed to take place at Dunedin on i March 15, before special juries. I