INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 628, 21 July 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

WRECK AT MOTANAU. Christchurch, July 20. The schooner Aspasia, 45 tons, Moore master and owner, was totally wrecked today at Motanau, wli ere .Ate was discharging ' timber. Tho crew escaped in safety. The ' insur.irice on tiie vessel is £100. in the Liverpool and London an i Globe office. , | DEATH OF A PRISONER. John Cunningham, from Timaru, undergoing an eight years' sentence in Lyttelton _ Gaol for burglary, fell while quarrying „ some rock on the Sumner road, ami broke his neck, dying before anybody could get ; lo him. A BAD HUSBAND. A Sydenham young man, named Nicholls, lately married and prominently religious, was ordered to pay IG-spor week. i to-day, for hia wife's maintenance, and ordered to find sureties to do so, besides being told by the Magistrate that he had treated his wife in a cruel and cowardly manner. A CAUITON TO TIPPLERS. John Nixon, a prohibited tippler, found drunk, got a month. THE ADAMS CONSPIRACY CASE. The extraordinary conspiracy case was continued to-day before Mr Wardell, R.M., at Wellington. Annie Morrison, a little girl, wn.«s called, and said she lived in the Ti lakori road with her father, a contractor. She met ••Jenny" Adams (the little girl alleged to have been assaulted, and now oh urged as one of the conspirators) after George Longlnmit had been convicted, when-Jenny said it was not George Longhurst but George Humphrey who had "done it." but that she had been told to say it was Long-burst. She w*.s quite sure about this, and remembered it distinctly. Cross-examined she could not recollect what month it was when this conversation took pace, iiur whether it wa>' summer or winter, dry or wet. George Laurie, Fishmonger, wa-. examined, and deposed to hearing Adams make a statement to the effect that he would allow his little girl to make a statement: which would clear Longhurst for £400. Adams afterwards told witness that ire had reconsidered the matter, and lhat all he had told wi'.ness o-r tho 251h of May, tho data on which the conversation is aliened to have taken place, was false, and that if his little girl made any other statement than _ what •sho had already made in evidence it would be lies. '■ Witness thereupon rejoined that if tho* little S'irl would havr. <:■:< perjure herself to clear * Adams had better have nothing to do with it. James Jonathan j Adams and Genevieve Elizabeth Adams I were then formally committed to take their trial. The charge against Mrs Elizabeth Adams will not be proceeded with. POLITICAL PERFIDY. The name of Pilliet, the newly returned member for Stantuore, figuring on tho list as a Governim-nt supporter in the division last night lias taken a good many of his supporters aback. They are very wroth at what they describe as his political perfidy. NARROW ESCAPE. A cottage at Kilbinne, Wellington district, occupied by v hum n-uned Norling, was burned t.own during last night. When Uie inmates retired to rest all appeared to be si-iiier, but at 1 a.m. they were awakened by tne place being in flames, j , and they had barely true to escape with j _ tq.'ir lives. Mr Norliug's beard wasac- , Luatly burned off before he got out of the '■ cottage. It was insured in tho South , British for£loo, andihefurnit ,ie for £'25. THE OAMART MURDER. 'X'he hearing oi: tlit-j of iiiarder against Alexander Beattie was continued J to-day ut Oaiuuru. The only fivsti ovi- t denee- was, that on June 16th prisoner gave 1

an adze to a man named Will efts, who said tie saw some blood on the back of it, and handed it to the police. The case will probably last till Saturday. DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT. At the Dunedin Supreme Court to-day. Thomas Ramage, convicted of rape on his granddaughter, was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. In Kitto's ease the jury empanelled found him insane, and therefore he was comitted to the Asylum. THE COLONIAL BANK. The Colonial Bank profits for the halfyear are £17,218. A dividend has been declared at the rate of 7 per cent, absorbing £14,000; £2000 is added to the reserve fund, and the balance is carried forward.