INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 521, 12 July 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

■ft'UOM OUR OWN COIUIESI'ONDENT.] Auckland, July 11. The steamer Bowen arrived last night from Hong Kong, after a passage of 27 days, with a cargo of teas for New Zealand. Ther.i was no disease there when &he left. She brought no passengers. Dr Philson considered that the vessel had been long enough at sea for any disease to develop, and thought the vessel might be liberated, but he had no alternative but to order her into quarantine. He has since telegraphed to the Government advising her release. r ihe Government has ordered the Health Officer to admit the steamer Bowen to pratique, and the order for her release 1 has gone to the quarantine station; Wellington, July 11. Thft cargo of the steamer Wakatipu is being discharged into a hulk, and she proceeds south this afternoon. At the Supreme Court, the case against Whitelaw, for maltreating a lunatic patient is proceeding. Blenheim, July 11 The body of a man, name unknown, described as being from 35 to 40 years of age, tall, with sandy beard and whiskers was found on the banks of the Waihopa river near Benhapoi station? yesterday afternoon. It is supposed that in attempting to cross he was washed down and drowned. Dunedin, July 11. At the civil sittings of the Supreme Court, the case of Seaborn v. the Bruce Standard, in which £500 is claimed for alleged, libel was heard to-day, and resulted in a verdict for £25. At the Police Court this morning,. Eliza "Whittle was committed for attempted burglary. hhiiimii m—w umsaamm —————