GENERAL ITEMS.

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

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Lyttelton Bfeatn tug saw some wreckage to the south of Akuroa Heads on Sunday. The editor of Freihiei has lie en imprisoned for eight months for writing \i\ article justifying the Pbronix Park murders. AcxiVii preparations continue for llio despatch of troops to A train of 72 guns is alwo beim; got in readidobs at Woolwich Arsenal forthuUountry. A report has been generally cunent that the Marquis Clahiicarde had been murdered at, his seat, Portumna Castle, County Galway, Ireland. It lias since been proved that the report w> v untrue, but it is now known that his lordship's agent, Mr Blake, and Mr Kean, (steward), have been shot at and killed near Loiighreo. The assaassme we*e $qitceftled behind a wall through loopbolep in which they fired upon their victims. "The affair caused I quite a sonastioft. Nα arrests have been I made* ■ Captain. Sinobair, ketoh Courier, reports seeing, between Motonau and Stoneyhurst on the beach on the 22nd June, a rudder of a vessel, some planks, and a piece of board, with the letters " N.Z.S. Co." upon it. Mr H. J. Hall, at the Motonau station, also sent information to the same effect. The last named gentlemen further reported that some tallow in casks had come ashore, and he purposed sending it up in the Courier, but Captain Sinclair could not well get round to where it w&b lying with his vessel, None of the New Zealand Shipping Company's ovwi ships have left this port lately. The Gareloch and the Brilliant were the last the Company despatched for London that had taliow on board and. neither of tlie.-e vessels would, ac they wero chartered be likely to have a boat bearing N.Z.iS.C. upon it. An agent sent by ihe .N.Z.S. Company has since repoited there is no fear ol il being one of the Company's vt'B-ieis. Thk Irish llopre-bion Bill has been again under consider.uioii i<i CoiiimiUre or. the whole i.lJuii.-e ot Commons, and af.er a veiy lengUiy deb.te, mill ducpilu great opposition, aii lite clauses have bemi pushed. Tliu Bill came up i'or consideration soon af it ilk- minting «»f the lli»iir.e <m Jb'iiday,. iiud ttie di.MMinsiii;." whs eonieued dining tnu whole of.that night and i-iii'l a late hour next day, the wilting lasting in all for thiriV-two houre. Great oppo.sit.ion was bhowtito the pussagti ot the Bill by Mr JPatnell and tiio Home Kale's, ami their action was ot' such an obturiictivc and disoiderly charactei that Mr I'.irnell ami tilleeii ol his supporters were Kiispeiided for the leinainder of the sitting. Ths obstruction nevertlieless conliuu■•»!, ami finally six inoro iiotiie Kuleis weie suspended for di-oideriy toiuluct. The debate then proceeded more quietly, and as already stated all the clauses of the Bill were at length passed through com mittee.