INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 525, 26 July 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

f!'"l:OM OUR OWN COl<R!iSPO>ii>iilf'i\] July 25, A fouv roo:.cod l:oyr;e at Kriiircrai owr..-'d by Ali'ied ]'•*>'.?<■'' ii t:;.? .'-.yrn'o dor™ I ' " , r , - ■»•.-.,-■■ John SpaldiDg died at West Taier from the effects of exposure. He los his way on the 18th, and had been driuk

ing, When found two days later he was insensible. At the Police Court, James Pollock Holmes was charged with embezzling £18, Government monies, received by him as bailiff at Invercargill. He was remanded to Invercargill. « ISVEROARGILL, July 25. Judge Ward has decided at tho District Court, in the case of Dalgleish v. Moreton's Trustees, that a bill of sale given three days before a declaration of insolvency is filed held good against the body of creditors. Tho decision has caused a widespread feeling of insecurity in commercial circles. Gisboknk, July 25. A fatal accident occurred last night to Charles Collect. The deceased, who was,a carter, was driving out of town, tilien the horse bolted, and the driver fell off the shafts and was run over ; i death is supposed to have been instantaneous. The deceased was a sober and industrious man, and leaves a wife and large family, Cautehton, July 25. Henry Goodwin, a r.ibbitter, accidentally shot himself on Saturday afternoon, and died in a few hours afterwards, Hia dogs had attacked some tame pigs, and Goodwin struck at them with tho stock of his gun, and hitting the ground discharged the contents of both barrels into his chest. Tho, gun was full cock, Auckland, July 25. The Australia arrived this morning with the San Fvaucisco mails. She brings 1278 cases salmon. The following are the principal items of news :— London, June "11. Tremendous storms have ravaged both tho Eactern and Western American States. It has been particularly severe in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and Hew Hampshire. Horses and men are reported kg killed by lightning, and the wires everywhere prostrated. A. letter lias beea received, according , to a despatch iVom Liverpool, threatening to blow up the Duke of Westminster aad his residence. Mr Gladstone has said that Mr Parnell crosses the Atlantic to avoid milking speeches in Great Britain that wouid land him in g;',ol. Ex-.ildennan Clancy of CHt\a»vv. Canada, has exhibited a flying machine. At an average height of twelve f.;eL ho iiifuie a flight of a quarter of a milo # Tho uiachiae is the lesult of 30 jears Uioujht and labor. In Spain the Free Traders end Protectionists nro holding large meetings. The latter cite with approval the example of America. A process server named McCauliffo has been shot dead at hia house near Castle Island, Kerry, on the night of the 28th. A man named Arthur Le'roy was found in one of the Brighton Kaiiway carriages on Juae 27, wounded on the head and bleeding, Hβ reported ihat his fellow-travellere were countrymen J and an old gentleraf.u, and that shortly after parsing Croydcn he heard a shot and was stunned. The police found several bullets, imbedded in the carriege, and in Balcalbe Tunnel they found the corpse of T. J. Bold, a retired business man, with his throat cut, who had been in London to collect dividends. He was , also r.tabbc 3in various places. Only a pockctbook containing cards was found on his person, Lefroy, after having his wounds drossel, started for London. Ho is a newspaper reporter, aged 22. He has since been arrested for murder. Sax Francisco, July 3, The New York Herald's special gives ths following particulars of the London and Brighton Railway outrage, referred to elsewhere:-~The act way committed 1 in one of the most frequented roads leading out of the Metropolis, and excited the keenest interest everywhere. Lefroy, the suspected party, told a strange story to the railway officials. He said' , after lcaviin; Crovdon he hearr , shots fired find felt a blow on bis \ I i c n SOP l Us ne; sai 1 -i- i iof i i i i at * i i tli. i \ t 1 pot 't c V ■g& 1 » , ' dh , m ji 'rt ie) ie r t , rt\ i> n U ) Iα /g fji H j a ! v" I*, f uni Yl n i <■ > n i ui oi of ( r - 1 - j i J f i r W- i * i > I;; ■ ' ' j la. l ' > ■> ) • ! '- : --- 1 'Ik it I Ie i tio i in a i p<r ou oi Lei ! It t the mv dci a d i it - will implita'e tne