INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 619, 20 June 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Prom our own Correspondent.) AaoKOAND, June 19. Five long sentence prisoners were sent to Wellington, per Oroli, to asa'st in the construction of the new gaol. Amongst them aro the notorious Fieri Plumnier, who received len years for burglary, an , ! sending threatening letters; and W. T. Bolton, who i 8 also serving ten years for forgery and horse stealing. The captain of the Mendoga reports that a seanvin named John Taragran fell over-hoard and was drowned, during the voyage, A terrible tragedy occurred in Chapel street this morning. A mill hand named Henry Foreman, aged 22, married seven weeks ago, took down'his carbine and threatened to shoot his wife. She ran out of the house, but had not gone many yards before she heard a shot. Foreman was found dead with a large hole over the region of the heart. Jealousy is assigned as fie cause of the affair, Mrs Foreman being enclenie. G-isborne, June 19. A Native policeman arrived last night from the East Cape, reporting the total lo sof the ketch Jessie. All hands have been lost. The vessel was insured for £400. Wanganui, June 19. Two seamen named Boyd and Kedmond assaulted Capt. Pope on board the steamer Tui, in the Wanganni river on Saturday night, ai.d trit.'d to throw him overboard. They were brougot up at the R.M. Court this morning and remanded. Christchurch, June 19. A man named. Redmond, employed on the tramway,got his head jammed between two vehicles to-day at Pa panui. J. Young, for indecent assault, was committed for trial. Anuio Croton, aged 14, for larceny, was to-day committed tor one year t6 tue Industrial School, by the Lyttelton Bench. A mate of hers, named King, aged 13, was .sent to Addington for one week. Hearn, of Wellington, is to row Reynolds, of Sydney, for £100 a side. Ihe Woodstock rush continues ; 1200 mou are on the field. Forty loads of dirt have produced 22ozs of gold. Detective Kirby has gone to 'Frisco after Sheppard, the Tiinaru absconder. A gentleman named Slater was accidentally shot while out shooting at Fortrose. At a. meeting held in Christchurcli on Saturday, it was resolved to form a company for the growth and manufacture of flax fibre and linseed oil. A strong committee was appointed. The electric light trial on'the screw pile jetty at Lyttelton on Saturday night was a success. The Harbor Board propose adopting it for the harbor generally. Twelve applications for extensions of licenses to midnight were made to-day by hotel keepeis, at the meeting of the Bench for Chrirftchurch East. Only two were | granted, viz., to the Central Hotel and the Commercial.