GENERAL ITEMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 611, 23 May 1882, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Rev James Cumming has been appointed to the vacant School Inspectorbhip for North Canterbury. At the wool sale on Saturday 10,101 bales wero offered. Tho tone, of the sale was strong.

This Irish Judges have taken steps to protest against the clauses of the Irish Represssion Bill, which provides for the suspension of jurieß in Ireland.

The betting on the Derby, which is to be run on tbe 24th inst, is as follows :— 3 to 1 agst Bruce, 6 to 1 agst Shotover, 7 to 1 agst Dutch Oven, 8 to 1 agst Quicklime, 9 to 1 agst Givald.

It has now been ascertained that the ten men who were recently arrested on board the steamship Egypt at Liverpool on suspicion of being concerned in the assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke were only stowaways.

The ship City of Perth is being rapidly lightened, a number of boats being at work nnd the grain so far is rndamaged. Her captain (Mac Donald) will be able to inspect her to-day, and will decide what further is to be done to save her.

Mr S. Blacklooe, chief officer of the City of Perth, who bad his leg amputated on Monday, died in the Hospital on Saturday. At his funeral the Masons, Artillery, Rocket Brigade, and a large number of private citizens attended. No more bodies have been found, and it is believed six are still missing. Subscriptions for the fund for the distressed are corning in most liberally from all parts of the colony.

In the House of Commons on Thursday night, the Irish Repression Bill was read a second time by a majority of 45. In the course of the debate which took place, Mr Gladstone stated that the provisions of the Bill had been long planned by the Government, and were not merely intended as an act of resentment for the murder of the Irish Secretaries.

In the cricket match Australia v. Sussex, at Brighton, the latter in their second innings scored 193 runs, and the Australians thus won the match by one innings and 335 runs. Palmer and Garrett bowled splendidly for the Australian?. The Times to-day in a leading articlehails Australian cricketers to England, and says that their success should stimulate Englishmen to improve their play.

Startling Experience.—Tlie other day a daughter of Mr Gobi, Woodlands, bad a rather startling experience of machinery, which will probably make her more careful in future. It appears that she was nursing the baby cf the family, and went out to where a horse-power was at work cutting chaff. Ignorant of the ri*>k, and no doubt thinking it would be something novel, she sat down on the connecting shaft between tho power and the chaffcutter, which was running at high speed. The consequence was that her skirts were rapidly twisted up, and she was thrown round with the shaft in an alarming manner several times before the horse could be slopped. She stuck to the baby, and, singular to say, kept it unharmed. She was considerably scratched herself by contact with the ground, and will probably eschew horse-powers in future.— Southland Times,