BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3803, 3 May 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Christchurch, May 3. Mr B. Parkerson, aged forty-five, house surgeon of the Christchurch Hospital, died yesterday morning from typhoid fever. The hospital has been crowded with typhoid fever cases for months past, and Mr Parkerson was greatly overworked. Mr and Mrs Bates made their debut at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night in “ Elizabeth,” with great success. On Saturday last I)r Back (the Sheriff) proceeded to Lyttelton and gave Mercer official intimation that the sentence of the law would be carried out upon him at eight o’clock on Friday (morning next. On being visited by the Revs. F. Knowles and J. Wills, and asked to attend prayers, Mercer declined to do so, and on those gentlemen leaving the gaol, ho remarked that anyone seeing the"ministers leaving would think he was going to heaven quick. Bishop Redwood attended mass at the Catholic Church yesterday, and preached to a crowded congregation. A laboring man named Knight, who was fined LlO for having two grey ducks in his possession a day before the opening of the shooting season, and in default of payment, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, has been liberated by Sir Cracroft Wilson paying the u j* • t 6 Go Y e ™ or , hi response to a petition, had just previously signed a warrant for the release of Knight. {From our own Correspondents) - ~ , Wellington, May 3. «," e s l 'jy s > ie( J> and whose wife was failed m Dunedin, was well known here, Where he lived two years. He was well connected, his family being shipowners in Liver

Eool, but his real name is supposed to be Lockait. He emigrated in consequence of marrying below him. His wife was a music hall singer. Both were of intemperate habits here. Crossan lived with them here, and it is supposed he was improperly intimate with Mrs Jeffreys. They paid his passage to Dunedin when they removed a few weeks ago. Queenstown, May 3. A Chinaman hanged himself in his hut at Cardrona while in a fit of insanity.