INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 636, 18 August 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Prom our own Correspondent.) Christohurch, August 17. THE MISSING -SOLICITOR. Nobody in tho Penguin knows anything ,of the missing Thompson. A clerk in the Lyttelton office of the company says he took out a return ticket on board just before she sailed out, but a man who knew him well was on the look out for him at Wellington and did not find him on her arrival. SERGEANT MAJOR O'GdADI. The charge against Sergeant O'Grady at the Thames was dismissed to-day aud he left the court withont any imputation resting on his character. A COFFIN CASE. An employer ,vho paid live pound, a coffin for one of his workmen on the expectation that his friends would recoup him, sued for his money to-Jay and lost his case. PATE A NEWS. The bad weather is playing havoc amongst the lambs iv the Patea district. One farmer 10-t forty last nigh;. Tne prospect for a successful land sale al; Patea is goo.!, speculators arriving there daily. A LUNATIC AT LARGE. A supposed lunatic named Mitchell was walking deliberately into the Avon to-day with his punts, on and a red handkerchief , for a hat. A policeman took him for a J would-be suicide and claimed him just in time. j SUDDEN DEATH OF A MAO 111. ! W. Nieta Hikairo, a chief, died at j Rotorua yesterday while attesting to his duties at the Native Lands Court. The j deceased was 50 years of 11:50, and { rendered great service to the country in , serious times. j PAiiLLAU.-NTAUY. There is not a single bit of Parliamentary gossip about to-day, and very lew members have been about the iobhie.. The general opinion seems to bo that Mr Shrimski'a new clause re disqualifying inemocrs will cause a long discussion. It has been hinted tbat it will be m-.v.'.e a party question, but there is little, if any, truth in such statement. O.i to-day's order paper th'.n-fc are no less than i) 2 bills to bo dealt with ; the Ht'.l app_ar_ to be in_.9asmg iv place of diminishing.