INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 662, 17 November 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

Christchurch, November 16. SORRENTO IN PORT.

Tbe steamer So--rento a*rived this afternoon from Wellington, and leaves to-mor-row night for Dunedin, to load with mutton for London. There is only 500 bales of wool here for her. SAN FRANC'.SCQ MAiL. The Hawea wiU arrive here 10-movrow moroing early wiih the San Francisco mail. She left "Wellington to- day at noon. ARRIVAL ROTORUA, The Roiorua arrived tbis afternoon with the Melbourne mails for Cantorbu.-y. A SUSPECTED MURDER. A rumour is current at Te Avvamiitu that George Savage, Mr Tole's servant, supposed to have been accidentaly drowned on Nov. 5, was murdered by a Native named Pukpkora. It appears that a native named Maniopoto stated in the hotel at Kmikihi on Nov. 13, to a lad named Benjamin Ward, that Pukekora had kiTed Savage, and thrown him into the river. The statement reached the ears of Constable Gillies (the man who arranged Winiata's arrest, and captured Pakara and Epiha), and he brought Ward and Maniopoto together, when the latter denied all knowledge of the matter. Pukekora is now in the Native country. The police believe that the story deserves credence. CLAIMANT .TO DERWENTWATER ESTATES. Lovegrove, a Waikato painter and glazier, who is going to England to claim the Earl of Derwentwater's estate, arrived at Auckland yesterday. He has been twenty-sis years away from home. He states he ran away from home and entered the navy at fifteen, and took part in the Crimean war. He was a pie vendor somewhere in Yorkshire, and his relatives always believed him dead. The estates have been in chancery over 100 years. DEATH BY DROWNING. A settler named C. Claxton, residing near Featherston, was yesterday afternoon drowned in the Tauherinehau river. The body has not yet been recovered. THE TOTAL 13 ATOR IN COURT. The information laid against Mr Wallers, Dunedin, for unlawfully wagering and gaming was dismissed, on tho ground that the room in which the totalisator was worked was not a public place. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Early on Sunday morning last, Mrs Kitto, of Dumbarton Rock, cut her throat with a dinner knife. The windpipe is partly cut, but the main artery was_ not severed. The woman has had occasional attacks of insanity, and no doubt was suffering from its effects at the time of the rash act. Her husband has been away from home for some few weeks, it appears, and is expected to return in a few days. She is expected to recover. COACH ACCIDENT IN THE WAINUI RIVER. While the Parihaka coach wis yester- j day'crossing the Wainui river, torrents of ■ water came down suddenly, sweeping the coach, horses, and driver away. The driver went along with the current until he managed to got on one of the ; banks, and thus escaped. The horses < were found dead on the be'ich aj ■ couple of miles from the scene of the j accident, and the front of the coach has E been seen. The English mails were on board, and a search party has been out. Luckily tho passengers had previously

e ft the coach and crossed the river at a nother point. THE KUMARA SCANDLE. An action has been commenced against WyhJe, the late town clerk oi Kumara, for embezzlement of a sum 'of money deposited by a contractor. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. . Tennant, late of the stamp office, Hokitiki, was committed for trial yesterday. He is out on bail.