INTERPROVINCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 609, 16 May 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

CinasTCtiußCH, May 15

Capt. Mills, the harbor master at Timaru, died soon after coming ashore. The following persons aro missing :—Robt. Gardner, mate of the City of Perth, D. McLean, carpenter of samo vessel, William McLaren, waterman, Timaru, Emanuel Neilson, Boatman, Harry McDonald, boatman, Martin Broch, boatman, all of Timaru. It is almost certain that more lives wero lost.

At tho inquest on J. Rattonbnry, prisoner at Lyttelton gaol, to-day, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned, the medical evidence showing that an abscess of the brain was the cause. Deceased was an ex jockey.

There was an earthquake at Wellington this morning, reported slight.

The Hinemoa left Wellington to-day to take the Governor to the Capital.

No opposition was offered in the follow- j ing divorce cases heard to-daj at Wellington -—Claridge v. Claridge, Dunedin ; White v. White. Wellington ; Mullechamp v. Mullechamp, Wellington . Goldstein v. Goldstein, Dunedin ; Hornby v. Hornby, Dunedin. Decrees nisi were granted in the cases of Winton v. Winton, Dunedin, and Vance v. Vance, Dunedin. Tho case of Marshall v. Marshall was adjourned to Dunedin, in order to compel the attendance of the girl on whom it was alleged the respond nt had committed a rape. A Linseod Company is being formed at Patea. Three shocks of earthquake were felt at Blenheim to-day. At Dunedin Messrs Guthrie and Larnacb's balance sheet shows the losses for the year to be £24,949, due entirely to two sources, the burning down of the Pararaka Mills and the winding up of two j large branches.

The following are the correct insurances on tho Duke o! : Southerland : —Adelaide Company, South British Union, Standard, United Cornwall. South Australian, Unio, of Carlton, £1000 each, Colonial, £1400 Commercial. £500, Universal. £3000.

Two larrikins, Daniel Clifford and W. Bey x olds, for assaulting W. Renner and W. R. tie!by, were sentenced at the Christchurch Court to-day to six months and one month's imprisonment respectively. The Bench fined the defendants in the Lichfield street Gymnasium case 20h for renting the place to Lotti Wilmot on Sunday night, to deliver a quasi-religious lecture, called "Forbidden Fruit," it being proved that the Gymnasium was not licensed for public meetings. Walker, Smith, & Co.'s store at Amberley was burglarised on Sunday morning, and £60 in cash stolen.

One of the most deliberate attempts at assassination that has ever occurred in the Colony took place at Riccarton this forenoon. Mr Deans, who is well known and highly respected throughout the district, was the intended victim. It appears that Mr Deans was in the plantations adjoining the house this morning when three shots were fired, presumably by poachers, one of which it is stated lodged in his shoulders. No time was lost by Inspector Brohatn who at once ordered every available member of tbe force to proceed to Riccarton, these were told off into a surrounding party who are carefully beating the estate in the hopes of capturing the men who fired the shots.

Alexandra, May 15,

The proposal that Tengakau and ten other prominent chiefs shall accompany Te Wheoro to Auckland, to draw up tbe basis of an arrangement for submission to Parliament, will probably be carried out.