INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 645, 19 September 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

Christchurch, September 18. An old resident, Mr N. Suckling, died to-day. Tho funeral of the Waterloo veteran, Dugald Macfarbmo, took place to-day ; 150 Volunteers, and many citizens in carrnges and on foot, attended.

W. 11. Harding, charged with robbery, and who pleaded guilty to one indictment, was remanded to-day, on the application of the police. Thomas Stevens, an ex-cabdriver, got seven days for embezzling 10s.

The Hon. Ivo Bligh's team leave London for Melbourne on September 22, on a cricketing tour.

The late Dean B icthaus, of Sandhurst, left property to the amount of about £150,000 to the Church, and m-ide no provision for hid relatives, who are in comparatively bumble circumstances in Sandhurst. In the Probate and Divorce Court, London, recent y, a motion was made for an order lor presumption of date of death of the late Sir W. A. Congrevo and his brother, Mr W. F. Congreve. Each brother had passed under the feigned name of William Cooke. The elder has resided in New Zealand, and tho last letter from him was received in 1860.

Tne Brush Electric Light Company have distributed an int rim dividend of £245,000, equal to 100 per cent.

Sir Arthur Gordon is expected to arrive in England in October.

Sir George Bowen, Governor of Mauritius, in consequence of ill health, has obtained an extension of his leave of absence. He is now at Kissiiigen.

There is a serious outbreak of small-pox at the Cape. There have been from two to three hundred cases in the town.

An investigation is impending at Dunedin over Saturday's race between Burke and O'Connor, which rumor says was a swindle.

A photographer at Dunodin, named Herman Prince, died suddenly on Saturday. Verdict, overdose of chlorodyne, taken by himself.

Sinclair's store at Napier was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Insurance, £150 in the Union and £125 in the National.

A digger, name unknown, died stiddenly at Trovers accommodation hoase, West Coast road, on Saturday,