INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 661, 14 November 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

Christchurch, November 13. THE LITTLE AKALOA FIRE.

Mr Mclntosh, one of the accused concerned in the Little Akaloa fire case, arrived to-day by the steamer Akaroa, for the purpose of consulting counsel respect ing the charge made against him, He has no sort of doubt that he can completely establish his entire innocence of the base crime imputed to him. SUDDEN DEATH. _ An old man named Evers died to day suddenly at Wai thai n, where ho resided.

ACCIDENT AT AUCKLAND. A lad aged twelve, named Ernest

Travers Chalk, was thrown from his horse in Auckland on Saturday ; his foot caught in the stirrup, and he was dragged a considerable distance. He died in a few minutes. SAD DROWNING CASE AT AUCKLAND. A sad case of drowning occurred at Queen street Wharf on Saturday night. A wcman named Letitia Bryant, while waiting for the arrival of her husband from Riverhead, fell into the water Captain Tye, of the Alexandra, a ferry steamer, jumped after her. The woman after struggling for a minute or two, sank, and at the same time it was noticed that Captain Tye was apparently in a drowning state. The steamer's boat had now been lowered and Captain Smith and his mate put off to the assistance of those in the water. The first reached was Captain Tye, who when caught, was sinking for the last time, and had already sank some two or three feet under the water when caught hold of. By this time a man named Rose took off his clothing and jumped into the water from off the wharf. He swam to where the woman was last seen, and not being able to see anything of her, ha dived under the water, but was unsuccessful in finding Her. He then dived again, and brought up the body to the suiface, Mrs Bryant moved her arms' once or twice and then expired. While Rose was in the water'his clothing and £5 or £6 in his pocket was stolen. The bye-standers subscribed a new suit of clothing. It has since transpired that Captain Tye could not swim and jumped into the water on the impulse of the moment. Mrs Bryant is the wife of a carpenter, and leaves five children. THE NATIVE MINISTER. Mr Bryce leaves for Rotorna in a weekA FAST TRIP.

The Wairarapa has arrived in. Auckland in twenty-one hours from Gisborne, making the fastest time on record. FAILURE AT DUNE DIN. On dit that Arnold Meinrath, a Dunedin soft goods salesman, has failed, liabilities £10,000. EFFECT OF A SHOCK. Mr Daniel Stephenson of Dunedin,. manager for Royse Stead and Co., died on Saturday fromrexhauetion, caused by the shock to his system, the result of the Waitati railway accident. The deceased was in one of the hinder carriages, which did not leave the line. He leaves a wife and three children, He was for a long time resident in Auckland. THE JURY SYSTEM. In a leader to-day the Otago Daily Times advocates the trial of all civil cases by a bench of three judges without jury, asserting that the jury system is the principal cause of the delay, expense, and general unsatisfactoriness that litigants experience. DIVORCE. The Wellington Divorce Court to-day disolved the marriage between Levoi and Levoi. THE COMET. Despatches from London of October 8 say the comet is the talk of all of the scientific circles at present. It is being regarded-\vith considerable apprehension. Mr Richard A. Proctor, who denied that it was the comet of 1843 and 1880, now finds that he made a mistake in his calculations, and so has withdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers than he, have no doubt of the identity of the comet, and believe it will return at the latest in October, 1883, arid will then fall into the sun, with results that will dispense with the future publication of the newspapers of the world. It is said this id the opinion of the most eminent authorities of the day, C. Piazzi Smith, the clever Astoncmer-Royal of Scotland, in particular having made no secret of his belief that the end of the world is at hand.