INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 656, 27 October 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(FtiOM OUR OWN COKUESPONDKNT.)

ANOTHER HEMPTON FORGERY. CiiKisTCHuncii, October 26< Another forgery of a bill for £250 by Hemplon is announced, Mr W. Atwood's name in this instance also being used by the operator. JUDGE FENTON. Judge Fenton of the Auckland Native LaudsConi t. retiies, and takes the managership of the London and New Zealand Native Land Company.

ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AND SUICIDE.

At a quarter to five this morning, Albert Long, aged 19, residing at Pakcns, shot his father, Richard Dickson Long, aged 53, but not fatally. The son afterwards shot himself. The wound is expected to be fatal. The supposed cause is money matters. DEATH OF DR. RILEY. Dr Rilf\y, of Il.ivclock, died at Blenheim this morning. The town and the whole of the district is without ft medical man.

FAILURE OF A WOOLLEN COMPANY

Only nine thousand of the twenty-five ihousand shares in the Milton woollen mill were applied for, so the project failed.

ANGLICANISM AND WESLEYANISM

A Wesieyan minister named Berry, at Diinedin, referring to the suggested union of the Wesleynns with the A.nglicans said, " I was talking to a gentleman last week in Dunedm, who spoke about a desire on the part of. the members of a particular church in this city to unite with the \Ves!eyans. I said, but my friend if we cannot .igree when we are nest door, how are we to agree under one roof ? Let us ieani to be civil and loving as we are and then perhaps unhn will come '»y and by." It is long since the battle raged between the "old identity" and the " new iniquity" factions in Dunedin, but it appears probable that its last encounter has not yet taken place. POLITICAL INTEREST. Mr E. B. Cargili, speaking at the Young Men's Christian Association meeting, urged young colonists to make themselves felt in politics. He said : " I hope the lime is now coining when the young men of our community will assert themselves in such a way that they will make themse'vea felt as the guiders and leaders, to a great extent, of public ooini:>u in all matters that allei-t \\a moiu closely, and that we slvill not l>3 so much content as we hav £ j been to take our opinions second hand from any adventurer who is pitch— forked in amongst us."