INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 623, 4 July 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our ovjs Correspondent.) MoRAE'S EXBIBtTION WHISKY. OHiasTCHuncH, July 8. William Ciook, an Exhibition employe, got semi days for stealing , a bottle of Meßae's exhibition whisky. Me Line said that oc i' 2 bo Lies ouly 10 woie left. THE CITIZENS BALL. The citizens exhibition ball to-night is an immense affair. TUG VlSir TO LINCOLN. The members of both Houses, at present on a visit to Chr'stchnioh, leit this mn.nin,' by a special train for the school ot agricultuie, Lincoln. The party included : lion Mr Scotland, lion Mr Williams, Sir M. O'Rorke, Messrs Allwright, button, llm-st, Dodson, Levestam, Petrie, Hursthouse, Montgomery, IJectJuioi, Major lien's, the Mayo<: of Clnistchuvch, itev. 0. I'.aser, Mr H. 11. Webb. Mr J. Ivess and Mrs ivess joined the pa'ty at Hornby. The train stopped at Springs tract:, a few minuies walk from the School of Agriculture. WHIRLWIND AT OMATA. Yesterday morning Omata, near New Plymouth, was visited by a whirlwind. ■ THE KIMUTAKA RAILWAY ACCIDENT. The two trucks which went over the embankment on Saturday night on the ; Wairarapu railway weie about the centre of the train, nnu two others were puled oif the rails, but the couplings broke in time to save tliem going over toe embankment. THE CUT OF PERTH. The City of Perth's damage consists of rudder gone, twenty fret of kelson nnd keel, and five plates astern from keel up, torn aw iy. THE DUNEDIN FIRE. A large sum was collected on Saturday at Dunediu for the assistance of the I victims of the tire. Captain Kitchener and the infant are dangerously ill. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. CLEARANCE OF THE RINGAROOMA. Dr Gulbraith after examining the crew and passengers per llingarooma, gave them a clean bill of health. One child only is sufferiug from measles. LATE NEWS VIA AUSTRALIA. (Per s.s. Kiugarooaiii, at the Bluff.) London, June 22. Mr John Bright has expressed himself strongly opposed to araied intervention in the affairs of Egypt. Subscriptions are being raised throughout France to aid the funds for alleviating the suffering Europeans who have been compelled to fly from Egypt. The Times insists that the army and navy should be thoroughly equipped and the defences looked to. Russia is placing her navy in a staie of preparation, and is adding thirty additional gun boats to her fleet. A terrific hurricane is reported to have taken place at Geuimetsburg, iowa, United States. Whole streets were completely wrecked, and before the storm abated 100 inhabitants were killed. Amongst the arms recently seized at Clerkenwall are a quantity of weapons similar in construction to a species of b nvie knife, with which the jt*hoenix Park murders are supposed to have been committed. They are evidently of agrarian manufacture. Hoffman has been tried and convicted. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment with hard labor. Melbourne, June 28. The sum of £140,000 was voted towards the defence works. £1700 has been subscribed, in addi_

tion to Mr Ormand's gift of £5000, towards a Working Men's College. Coulston, whose premises at Prahran were desiroyed by dynamite, has issued a writ against the South British Insurance Company of New Zealand to recover the amount of his policy, which the- company decline fo pay, as Coulston was only insured ugainst fire. A fire surrounded with some mystery occurred early on Sunday morning in Beckett street. A man was found on the premises suffocated The loss by the fire was £3500. Sydney, Juno 28. Rocky Waterholes Hotel, on the Darling, has been burnt to the ground, and O'Brien and his wife, who were both drunk, burnt to death. Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia, has declined a nomination for the Bishopric of Adelaide, partly from personal reasons and partly because he thought the proper sphere .for his labors is where he is at present.