INTERPROVINCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 671, 19 December 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(From our own Correspondent.)

CiißrsTCFiu'acH, December 16. Mr Willipt, second mate of the barque Thurso, rescued a young , woman named Bolsh, on Sunday afternoon, from drown ing. He saw a piece of her dress floating on the surface of the water, and siispeciing there was something wrong, he leaped into the harbor, and caught her just as she was disappearing for the last time.

An Auckland telegram this evening states the charge of murder against Thos. Priestly and Mrs Marion Hamilton causes great excitement there. The evidence is almost wholly made up of suspicious little circumstances. Priestly was absent from his lodgings from seven o'clock on the night preceding Hamilton's death, until tlie middle of the next day, and the contradictory statements- he has made as to his whereabouts on the night of the allleged murder, form an important part of the implication evidence th'it has been obtained against him. In answer to Superintendent Thomson's inquiries, he said that he went to Mrs Gorries at seven at night to get some cider for neuralgia, and only remained there for a moment, setting out for Onehunga immediately afterwards, nnd spending the night there. He gave the name of the person at whose house he professed to have stopped, but on Dete-tivo Strathatn going out to see if this were so, ho found that the prisoner had not been there at all. The evidence inculpating Mrs Hamilton also consists in soma part of contradictory statements. There are two —The singular facts that she gave no alarm nor sought any assistance during the night, although her mother and sister inlaw ond nurse lived in the house, or of those outside. The case was remanded till nest Friday, when it ia doubtful whether the police will be ready. Bail was applied for, but refused.

The Hiirunui, for Lyttelton, was spoken with 50 miles .south of the Nuggets.

At Auckland, the man Hardy, who died from excessive drinking last week, was left £2000 a short time previously, and the curator of intestate estates is not Jable to find more than £150.