INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 640, 1 September 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From ouh own GoruißsroxDnNT.)

CUKISTCIIUHCII, A'lyU-st 8 L The well-known DunecUtt auctioneer, Whitlaw, died to-day.

The report about Mr Chris.th being appointed to the managership of the iimik uf New Ze.-iland, Dunedin, is denie 1.

Fitchett, the Dunedin solicitor, /'who horsewhipped lawyer Sievewright, was fined 50s to-day. '.

The Deferred Payment Suttterd Keliet Bill, and the Disposal of Pastoral L.mds Bill were today withdrawn.

From a private letter received in Christchurch to-day, wo learn that To Whiti and Tohu continue to be hi perfect health and that save from the sense of absence from their own homes, they are enjoying their present stage of existence extremely well.

The meeting of Canterbury members held yesterday morning at Wellington was a pure farce, only five being present, viz., Mesais Holmes, 11. Thomson, Ivess, Parson, and J. E. Brown. The two last said they had oidy . ttended to watch the proceedings. Mr Holmes took the lead, and moved th it the Canterbury members wait on the Government and ask for a revision of the railway rates and freights The motion was negatived. Mr Ivess, who was the only member who supported Mr Holmes, expressed surprise at the apathy of the Canterbury members who had not put in an appearance. Tho meeting then broke up suddenly.