Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 672, 22 December 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

Received December 21, 3.45 p.m. London, December 20. The Right Rev. Edward White Benson, D.D., Bishop of Trnro, has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, vice the late Dr. I ait. A third prisoner charged with the murder of the two bailiffs at Lough Mask, in February last, has been found guilty. Sentence has, however, been deferred. Vienna, December 20. M. Tisz'i, the Hungarian Prime Minister, made a spoech to-day, in which ho expressed an opinion that tho rumors now current of European complications are overdrawn, and that peace might be deemed to be assured. Received December 21, 1 p.m. Melbourne, Dec. 21. An extensive firj occurred this morning at the premises of Mess-s Hinmonds, Laws, & Co.,"wholesale chemists, 55 and 57, Russell Street, Melbourne. The fire raged forsometiinc, butins now been completely subdued. The extent of the daunge is not yet conclusively known, b t the loss is believed to bo very heavy.

(From our own Correspondent ) CiIuisTCUUKOH, December 21.

The Michael Murphy case again came before the police court to-day. Michael Rued his brother for assaulting him, but the Bench saw it was tho other way, and found Michael was the assailant. Then the same unenviable litigant was charged with deserting his family and three of his children were reminded until to-morrow for committal to I'.urnham, and the case as between himself and his wife was adjourned also. A cablo message has been received from London, bearing date 19, stating that the following vessels had sailed :— Wellington,- ship, for Port Chalmers, with 319 immigrants, and the Crusader, for Lyttelton, with 381 immigrant-*. With reforouee to the supposed Hamilton murder case at Auckland, all that has transpired is that the child was not poisoned, but died a natural death. Immediately after the examination the bodies wore re-coffined and conveyed in a cart to tho Cemeterj', under tho charge of Detective Strathern, and re-interred. Fresh external wounds beyond those described at the inquest have not been discovered on Hamilton's body, as tho corpse was too much decomposed to show with any certainty traces of fresh wounds. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, in the divorce case of Wilcocks v. Wilcocks and Fordcr, Thomas S. Wilcocks, in his petition, states in the first place that he is a tea dealer, and that he was married to respondentat St. James Church, Barrow-in-Fiirnes.s. Lancashire, England, on the 2Gth June, 1876. The fruits of the marriago were four children, all of whom died in infancy. The father avers that on or about November 1881, the respondent left his house in Auckland, and since then has lived apart from him. That on tho 18th of March 1 st she committed adultery with LJhas. Edward Forder, clerk (co-res-pondent), in a house in Cook street, and that ever since sin has been habitually committing tho sime offence with the aforesaid Forder. Petitioner therefore prays that the inarriagj may be dissolved, and that Fordcr may bo adjudged to pay the full costs of the petition. He also denies on affi lavit th it there has been any connivance between his wife and himself for the severance of t : u mitritn mill tie. The on I)" answer the iv.spondoiU an I corjspondis it m ike to those avenni its is i denial t'i it iduitery coin nitto I >> i th > dates mentioned by the petition'}! , . The armur is said to have commence.! in connection with G-ood Templar the respondent being a prominent perfor n«r at tiieire .teruimnsnts, until the soan UI led to her withdrawal. I