INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 537, 6 September 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

[from our own correspondent.]

AsHttuirroN, September 5

Mr Joseph Ivess lias instituted,an action against the proprietors of the Ashburlon Guardian f»r the publication of a letter containing aspersions against him. The damage* are fixed at £1000. Mr Ivess 'nVjmanded an apology for the. publication t£ i&a letter, and the name of. the writer. Both requests were refused, hence the action. Wellington, September 5. At a meeting of the Wellington Hebrew congregation yesterday, resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with their distressed and persecuted co-religionista in the South of Russia. Subscription H9ts were opened, and nearly £IOQ was subscribed in the room. A committee was formed for tho purpose of collecting further subscriptions. ■ Dunedif, September 5. The Chief Justice having to perform the duties of . Acting Governor, Judge Gillies takes the Otago Circuit next month. Mids Pomeroy Opened in " Cymbelino " on Saturday to a crowded house. She was enthusiastically received, being called; before the curtain at the end of each act. Mr Hoskins also received a flatteriug reception.

The mate of tho schooner Mary Ogilvie is believed to have been drowned. Marshall, the cook of the schooner, who was with the missing man said he left him at midnight on Saturday to go on board, but Marshall, being the worse for liquor, declined to go on board. At a meeting of Mr Clayton's creditors to-day, a motion was proposed to give him his discharge, but it waa negatived by 11 to 3. A similar vote on the question of maintenance was recorded.,. . . : -