GENERAL ITEMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 650, 6 October 1882, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Sydney football team wore defeated in Auckland by 18 points ( 0 4—Tho Lytlelton Regatta is to bo held on January X ISo.'J. —It is proposed to send a New Zealand cricket team to Australia.—Some good tike.i of trout lire being made—At the Supreme Court. Wellington, Uoberi Lililecott convicted of sle.-iling a horse, cheque, etc., was sentenced to six yean' pc a! servitude. James Jonathan Adann and G'-nevieve Eiizabelh Aduns, his daughter, were indicted on a di.'irgo o ,: falsely conspiring with others on IM>. 18, 1880, to wrongfully charge George Longburst with lriving'on Feb. 15, cnrually abuser] Gem-vieve Elizabeth AdaiiH. The occupied all day, and is not expected to concludu before to-morrow night —Tho Union Company are advised of the launching of -sfir now steannr Tarawari, to Rail on November 29.--The Daily Times Company lias declared an interim dividend of 7 per cent.—Tho Dunedin Refrigerating Company has chartered the us. Sorrento to load frozen meat. —Tho Duntdin Health Officer.-! report shows th.it of late thare has been an alarming increase of fever During the last month twenty-four c:ises were reported. Dr Maunsell has urgently submitted tli.it the Council should lot delay in the matter of erecting a fever hospital. The Council reeolved to recommend Government, to erect such a biiihliiig on a portion 'of the Dmiediu Hospital ground.—A very str.inge occunviiea is reported to Irivu tik-n place nt Mosgiel. About 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Mrs Burnett, the wife of the constable, feeling restless, woke her husband, un 1 uskel him to t-iko a look tlirough the liousp, as she felt rather uneasy. Burnett rove, and looked into the different rooris, and finally into the room where lay the corpse of tlie late Constable O'Neill. As he opened the door he saw a blaze and quickly perceived the room to be on fire. He procure] some buckets of water, and soon quenched the fUmes. How the lir<) originated is n mystery. A candle hid been left burning in the room, but it w-is on the table, while ths fire was on the floor in a corner of the room. A portmanteau was burned, and the fhines from it had charred (he table underm-atli, but, the top of the tibio showed no sign of fire. There was a sheet over the coffin, but the ilames had not reached it.—Tho New Zealand Clothing Factory Company intend erecting a four-storey warehouse at Dunedin, with workshops on the ground floor. The warehouse will be 181 ft long by 50ft wide. There will be a dining room for the work juiopie, with large boiior, &c. The buiMing, which wiU tako 8 months to complete, promises to be a mo lei factory.