GENERAL ITEMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 657, 31 October 1882, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

The British Government has intimated that it is prepared lo receive tenders for the supply of Australian frozen meat to the army. The two missionaries, Fortunatus John and John Williams, and the wife of the former, have been tried by a Special Commission at Sierra Leone for the mans aughter of a girl who was in their service, and whom they flogged almost to death, rubbing pepper into the wounds, and leaving her ami her companion, who had been similarly treated, exposed to the sun until the one girl died. I'he men have been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, and the wife of the one to a shorter term, as an accessory.

Both victims of the Pokeno shooting case are likely to recover. The hall fired at the father passed through tho lower part of the scalp, grazing but not fracturing the skull. It was extracted on the other side of the head. Tho bullet in thi son's head was iked too low to touch the brain, and is lodged somewhere in the up:,e: part of the face, its exact locality not yet being ascertained. Both are perfectly sensible. The parricide's mother is dead. The father was formerly a draper in London, and came out with some means, intending to commence farming. The son had been engaged since his arrival with t teatrical companies, going under the name of Bertie Lonne. Latterly he had been engaged to a young lady at Tauranga, ami it is supposed that his recent visit to his father wns for the purpose of obtaining money and' marrying. His refusal, however, is believed i<- have led him to commit the despera'.; deed. While at T-iurauera young- Long- was most abstemious, not eccentric, but very excitable.