INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 637, 22 August 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

CIIRISTCHURCH, August 21. McKay and Stevenson's tender, £850, for erecting the graving dock caisson, was to-day accepted. A Salvation Army of missionaries, about to leave London for the colonies, were presented with colors on July 17. The coronation of the Czar takes place this month. Tlie St. Petersburg Herald says we may soon expect grave events in Russia, for on the resound of the first revolutionary, jcannon that is fired, Germany, without any preliminary form whatever, will occupy the Baltic provinces, and then annex them. This has been repeatedly told the Emperor by a number of well-informed persons. A four minutes and thirty seconds earthquake shook down walls in all parts of San Francisco on July 29. Sixteen new lines of railway in Victoria are to be built out of the projected lOiUl. The vote on the public-house question in Melbourne resulted in a large majority against any more grog shops. The steamer Marsala, with frozen meat from Dunedin, goes home via Torres Straits fin.l Hatavia. Judge Johnston of New Zealand recently occupied a seat on the Supreme Court Bench in Melbourne. The robbery of £1000 in notes from the Colonial Bank, Melbourne, issurrounded by mystery. The key of the safe was taken from the pocket of the Manager in \\U bedroom, and the notes extracted. Some gold in the safe was untouched. Thomas, a contractor, fell overboard from the steamer Morpeth while going down Sydney Harbor, and was drowned. Seguenhoe is a great favorite for the A.J.U. Derby. Cnunamalla is backed to win the Melbourne Cup for £17,000.