INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 642, 8 September 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Fuom ouit own Correspondent.)

DUNEDIN SHIPPING. Chhistchuuch, -September 7. The Omapere, Union Company's new boat arrived at Dunedin to--day, and also the Auckland, 84 days from London. RUSSIAN JEWS. Subscriptions bore (at Dunedin; for the Russian Jews amount to £400. DECEASED WIFE'S -ISTER. The Dunedin Presbytery, by six votes to three, carried a resolution, asking the Synod to enjoin ministers not to perform or countenance marriages with deceased wife's sister. SPORTING IN WELLINGTON. Wellington holds a spring race meeting on Nov. 30. Prize money to £300 will be given. A trotting race is included. CHEISTCHURCH AND ST. ALBANS MUNICIPAL NEWS. Messrs Ayers, Recce, and Brice were unopposed for the City Council seats today, and were returned so elected. For the. North-west Ward seats, H. Atkinson, J. W. Grand, and W. Prudhoe are candidates. Seven candidates are out for the three seats for St. Albans. WIFE DESERTION. J. Thomas who left his wife and three children for Wellington on the ptetext that he hud employment with Bland Holts troupe, was fetched back and was ordered to provide one pound per week for their support. PARLIAMENTARY. The programme for the remainder of the session is to finish the Local Government and Loan Bills, then (on Friday) to tat'le the Public Works and supplementary estimates, to sit on Saturday, and oi Monday morm'n.r to finish, and to prorogue on Tues.-lay. It is expected that most of tiro members will Ioi»v»- by Monday's steamer for the So'irh, and by tho Wariaka for Nelson, the Hinemna taking up the Taranaki >.rxl Auckland members. This ar rangement'inay be interfered with by sub sequent events, but such ia the present plan.